Oklahoma State University Athletics
Oklahoma State Softball Quotes and Notes
June 21, 1999 | Cowgirl Softball
May 16, 1998
Oklahoma State Quotes
OSU Associate Head Coach Margaret Rebenar
(On winning the game)
"We're pretty excited. I think we got off to kind of a slow start. I give
their pitcher (Nora Cagwin) a lot of credit. She's very talented. I felt
she might keep us somewhat off balance, and I think that turned out to be
true. But we had some key hits, and they gave us a little bit in terms of
key errors. They have a great ballclub. We're excited to be in the position
we are in right now."
OSU Designated Player Michelle Singer
(On what the team has changed in the regional)
"We're a very strong team in all aspects - our pitching, our defense and
our hitting. It's just when we put it all together. On any given day, one
thing might not be there. But we're putting it together when it counts
right now."
Pitcher Leanne Tyler
(On getting tired during the game)
"I actually felt stronger toward the end. I was real shaky and nervous in
the beginning. (I was) kind of frustrated. I didn't feel like I had a lot
of speed today. But I was mixing the speeds that I had."
Oklahoma State Notes
* The Cowgirls, now 22-14 in NCAA Regional play, advance to Sunday's 1 p.m. championship game.
* OSU is in a regional championship game for the fourth time in the past five years. The Cowgirls are looking for their first College World Series appearance since 1994, when they advanced out of a Stillwater regional.
* OSU's opponents have scored just four runs in the past eight games.The Cowgirls have allowed just three hits and no runs in two regional games.
* OSU's third-inning error was just the team's third in the past nine games.
Southwest Missouri State Quotes
SMS Coach Holly Hesse
(On the game)
"I thought OSU played a great ballgame. I thought they had excellent
pitching; they did a nice job at the plate. Probably the turning point of
the season was the leadoff of the sixth inning. It was a close call at
first base, and I thought it could go either way, and it didn't go our way.
We needed to respond with excellent defense after that, but instead we went
out and made three errors on defense."
SMS Right Fielder Heather Anderson
(On Tyler striking out 10 Bears)
"I just don't think we were being aggressive. I don't know what it was.
There was no momentum. I can't really explain it. That's not the way we
hit. We barely have any strikeouts. But we looked at a lot of third
strikes."
Southwest Missouri State Notes
* Oklahoma native Nora Cagwin has pitched in 77 of the Bears' past 84 innings. She has appeared in 39 games this season, tying for third place on the school's single-season chart. She also moved into fourth place on the Bears' single-season innings pitched list.
* The Bears' loss to Oklahoma State was their second this season; both have come at Stillwater, including the first meeting, a 5-0 OSU victory March 13.
* Southwest Missouri State will play again Saturday at 7 p.m. against the loser of the Stanford-Florida State game.
