It wasn’t anything like that was unexpected. So, getting that triple I think was huge to kind of jump start the offense. I was seeing his ball really well, I was seeing his off-speed really well, and I was seeing his fastball really well, and I had pretty good confidence going up there through the first couple of pitches I’d seen.

That’s what I did on the triple I was just trying to fight everything off. They realized, okay you’ve got to shorten up and put the ball in play. What I’ve been working on is just staying short and I think a lot of guys kind of made that adjustment later on once they saw him one time. Especially being that much closer to you as the ball comes out of his hand is definitely tough. The scouting report said 84 to 86, and he goes up there and puts 90 on the board on the first pitch. Our bullpen coming out and picking him up and continuing to put zeros up on the board really helped.” It wasn’t one big hit or one big pitch it took the whole team playing defense, getting quality at bats at times, getting the pitch count up like coach said, and then our bullpen coming out even (Zack) Ridgley coming out as he has been the last couple of weeks he’s thrown really well. So, being able to add a NCAA regional win to our resume definitely I think was huge for us as a team. We have done a lot, we have accomplished a lot this year as a team breaking win records, streaks, overall record breaking those records. On winning the first NCAA tournament game in the program’s history: Really all it comes down to is playing good one day and seeing if we can extend it to Monday. We have proven that we can put winning streaks together. But when you win 43 games in the regular season, winning two games is not a daunting task.

On the mindset of having to win two games tomorrow: But Higgerson and Marshall get another day to get their feet under themselves and at some point we are going to need their bats.” The middle of our order is on its heels right now. On the attitude coming into today’s game: So they each got ahead with their fastballs.” If you don’t hit their fastball earlier on in the count it’s hard because they throw good solid sliders. On what was working today for the pitchers: First game of the conference tournament he gave us 6 strong innings. I think even if we hadn’t won the Big South Tournament, one of the reasons why we would have been an at large is because of all the mid-week wins he pitched against good teams like Virginia Tech and West Virginia. On what made you decide to start Zack Ridgely: Luckily we had some decent at-bats and got Puckett’s pitch count up to 97 through five innings.” That Lipscomb team is a solid baseball team. We executed and had a couple sac flies and a couple big hits and played pretty clean defense. But the two guys that came in for us, Bridgeman and Meisinger were outstanding like they have been all year long. I would have loved to have seen him extend the game. I’m happy for the community and I’m happy for Radford University. I’m proud of our team because it is the first time we have ever won an NCAA Tournament game. “It’s nice to survive and live another day. NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete Prospective student-athlete questionnaire Student-athlete mental health and performance Ingram Center for Student-Athlete Success Vanderbilt University Athletics - Official Athletics Website Open Menu

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