Gordon Eakin
Gordon Eakin
Gordon Eakin is an American college softball coach and the current head coach of the BYU Cougars softball team. Eakin is a graduate of the University of Utah and is a former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics. Eakin also serves as the USA National Team Hitting Coach...
finally great healthy performance showing summer
Summer pitched great for us today. She is finally getting healthy and it is showing in her performance.
learn
They need to learn how to compete. That's what we're going to do.
couple last road weary
Finally. I think we were road weary the last couple of trips. We battled, but didn't come through like tonight.
capable element fight focus incredibly playing talented virtually
This is an incredibly talented team. We have every element on this team. If we can come out with some fight and come out playing the way that we are capable of playing, then we will be virtually unstoppable. Now we just have to focus on that goal.
ball cold great hit overall played
Overall we played well today. It was windy and cold but we hit the ball well and Brooke pitched a great game.
girls hard mean nice polls though work
It's nice to see the girls' hard work get recognized. Even though the preseason polls don't mean a whole lot, it does show that we are getting some respect.
area bad game parts performance physically worst
No parts of our game were there today. It was a disgrace. This is our worst performance of the year, without a doubt. We weren't there mentally, we weren't there physically ? we were bad in every area today.
girls prevent ranked
Being ranked will probably prevent us from sneaking up on our opponents. But our girls will be up for the challenge.
good last offensive performance seen
Last week's performance is as good of an offensive performance that I've seen as a coach.
facets game job nice pitchers potent seemed shutting southern together utah
We seemed to put together all facets of the game today. Our pitchers did a nice job shutting down a very potent Southern Utah offense.
anybody bit carry players ran
When you give anybody a little bit of momentum, they're going to carry it through the game. I ran out of players and I ran out of lineup cards.
awesome ball hit offensive three
We hadn't hit the ball like we could. We've done it three years with this group. (Thursday) was an awesome offensive performance.
fighting fights-and-fighting injuries offense stepped
We are still fighting through some injuries to our pitchers. Fortunately our offense stepped up in a big way.
hitting impressive innings runners score seen today
Today was one of the most impressive hitting performances I've seen as a coach. Even in the innings we didn't score we had runners on base.