Game Five Postgame Quotes

May 27, 2000

FIU Head Coach Danny Price

“It was a great performance by Jerry (Courtney) and our whole club. Thisclub has more character than any club that I’ve had the opportunity to coach.”

On tomorrow’s final:
“I’m not into predictions. We are going to show up and play awfully hard.We planned on having a long day today and we’re ready.

FIU P Jerry Courtney

“I could have gone 12-0 and lost today and would have been miserable allsummer. I feel like I gave us some momentum going into tomorrow.”

FIU C Al Corbeil

“We’ve had to battle back all year. Sometimes we take the harder route, butwe give it our best.”

FAU Head Coach Kevin Cooney

“We had a great year. It’s a shame it had to end this way. The bad partabout amateur sports is that there’s such a finality to it and that a lot ofplayers won’t be back.”

On Jerry Courtney:
“Courtney flat out beat us. It was remarkable performance. He pitched agreat game. He shut us down in February. We thought we had a betterapproach this time, but he out-pitched us.”

First baseman John-Edwards Roffo

“Courtney got in a groove, hit his spots, and they got a lot of clutch hits.”