Postgame Quotes
June 5, 2004
Miami Head Coach Jim Morris:
“Our guys did a good job of hanging in there. NC State is a very good team with great pitching, and we did a great job hitting the ball today.”
“Cesar settled down after the first inning, and did a great job for us today.”
“The ball was really carrying today. Once we got going we really picked it up.”
First Baseman Jim Burt:
“We knew we could hit this pitcher. We hit him last year, so we knew we could score.” Cesar (Carrillo) did a good job keeping us in the game.”
Starting Pitcher Cesar Carrillo:
“After (the three run home run), I just wanted to keep it at 4 because I knew we were going to score runs.”
“I don’t know what it was (his first inning struggle). I was just getting the ball up too much. After the first inning, I got the ball down, and did much better.”
Third Baseman Gabe Sanchez:
“We take facing good pitchers as a challenge. We want to hit them, score runs, and put pressure on them.”
NC State Head Coach Elliott Avent
“We got absolutely pounded with our best pitcher going – everything we threw they hit. We are talking about a team that is awfully tired, a team that is awfully dejected. We knew Carillo was tough. We scored four in the first and hit him as hard as we did, and with Rogers going pretty good, we felt like it was going to be a pretty good day for us. To get beat like we got beat (Game 5) is going to be very tough – I am very concerned right now.”
“As you can see, Florida Atlantic is a great team – the wins they’ve put up this year. They pounded the ball this morning and they have had about five hours rest. We couldn’t go too long with too many people out there because if we win today we could have to play two games tomorrow.”
“It’s going to take a great effort by our players to battle back and play Florida Atlantic. I don’t know if they have it in them or not, but we will find out in the next few hours.”
On starting pitcher Michael Rogers…
“I’ve never seen Mike Rogers get hit like that in my life. He was awfully keyed up before the game. He couldn’t get ahead and threw some pitches that were awfully close. It seemed like he pitched from behind all day and everytime he got the ball off they got it – they didn’t miss anything all day.”
