Craig Faulkner Quotes (12 Quotes)

We want to be the top seed. Manatee has three losses in the district, but they could lose again. We have a very tough week coming up -- three games on the road all against good teams. If we play well, we'll have a chance.

Cook is flat out a winner at whatever he does.

I wanted us to stay back and go the other way, put the ball in play especially with the tough wind blowing straight in.

It was a spring break atmosphere and it's tougher to get focused. We didn't sit back and wait for the pitches. We were swinging at bad pitches on 2-0 counts instead of letting them go.

Our philosophy is to work hard and that's all we know how to do. We played Venice baseball like it's supposed to be played.

We started last Friday against Southeast with four district games in a row. We had to win them all to be the No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the district. The guys really hit the ball well (Tuesday night) and backed up our pitching.

I take my hat off to Erickson. He's a polished high school pitcher who has command of three pitches and moves the ball in and out. It's impressive.

We've been trying to get him to stay back and get him to go the other way with two strikes and (Tuesday night) he did it twice. Once the second baseman (caught) it when he hit it hard and the other time he got a hit.

We played the way Venice High is supposed to play. Even if we would have lost tonight, I still would have been proud of the way we played.

Their pitcher was great. We didn't make the adjustments on his curve.

This was the first night I thought Lucas was 100 percent back. Having Wean back at third means we don't have people out of position. Injuries have definitely hurt us this season.

It was nice to beat a ranked team on senior night. We played good baseball.