University of Minnesota Athletics
Postgame Quotes: vs. Wake Forest
6/5/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Head coach John Anderson
Opening Statement…
"First of all, once again, I want to congratulate Wake Forest on an outstanding season, outstanding team. We've had two competitive ballgames with them and congratulations to them on their season. We talked after the game last night, about (how) we had some momentum going. I thought we got our offense going again winning the first inning today. We got a one spot up there and put up a zero. I thought we kept some momentum and some confidence and a good feeling on our side of the field. We had lots of chances during the course of the game but obviously we went in there and stayed after it. We're getting more quality at bats up and down the lineup and it's shown in terms of the number of runs that we've scored over the last few ballgames. This gentleman over here, Lucas (Gilbreath), I told him this morning that he was going to start. Probably would have been in our starting plans this season. He had to miss the first five weeks of the season. We got him back and used him in the bullpen. He's built his arm strength up and did an outstanding job of using three pitches out there. Over the course of the ballgame, obviously the turning point of the ballgame was striking out the side there with the bases loaded and kept the score on our side."
On using Jordan Jess…
"(Brian) Glowicki was done and the game was in balance, so we got him hot. You have to win the game. I have a lot of respect for Wake Forest. They can swing the bat. So you can't just say that with two innings to go that the game is over. We made a decision to get him hot, so I felt like we had to use him."
Sophomore pitcher Lucas Gilbreath
On the second inning jam…
"I mean obviously, that's not an ideal inning. I'm trying to pitch to contact and they're a good team. You throw a pitch and miss your spot, they're going to hit it. They did a great job all game. They loaded the bases and I kind of changed my approach. Coach came out, kind of calmed me down and I just made some big pitches when I needed to."
On starting instead of coming out of the bullpen…
"It's a lot more pitches than I've ever thrown, but you only get this opportunity once every so often. So there was a little bit of adrenaline and I just wanted to go out there and compete and go as long as I could and try and save some arms for the team."
