May 18, 2001
Box Score|Recap|NCAA Regionals
Central Michigan Head Coach Margo Jonker
Q. Opening statement about the game?
A. We liked this game a lot better than last time. The six did a great job, it was great to see Hope (Robertshaw) set the career double record and it was also great that we continued hitting after we got off to a big lead. I thought in that inning we shut the door, and that's something we've been working to achieve all year - I was happy to see that. The girls did a nice job for us on the mound. Overall it was just a great game for a regional tournament, so the key is just to keep that going against competition, which I believe is Stanford.
Q. How to it feel to rebound and come back after yesterdays loss?
A. The key is how you respond, this game is all about that - it's not about doing everything perfect all the time, so the key is how you react to that, our team did a great job of that today.
Central Michigan Player Kim Burke
Q. How did it feel to start that inning (2nd inning CMU scored 10 runs) with a hit?
A. I'd been watching previous batters, I saw that the pitcher had a tendency to throw the first pitch as a strike. I was looking to go up and hit if it was close.
Central Michigan Player Hope Robertshaw
Q. Any thoughts about setting the career doubles record?
A. If it comes, it comes - I don't really think about that stuff.
Hofstra Head Coach Bill Edwards
Opening Statement: Where do you start? We had a bad inning and a couple of opportunities during that inning where we could have gotten out of it and stopped the flood, but we didn't do it. We had four opportunities to get out of there with minimum damage, but we didn't make the play. Obviously, we didn't hit enough to get back into the game. It was just one of those games where once you start hitting, you continue to hit. Central Michigan is a great team with a great coach. They kept it going. We did this to other people, and today we go it done to us. It's the nature of the game. If you spread all those hits out instead of one inning, you have a better game, but everything happened at one time.
Q. You had an opportunity early but didn't score...
A. Yeah, in this game it isn't how many it's when. Timing is everything. They're timing was outstanding. They got every key hit they had to get. We didn't make the key plays we had to make.
Hofstra Player LaMeka Anderson
Q. What were your impressions of the game - obviously it was disappointing...
A. Really disappointing. For my last game, I wanted to play all seven [innings]. It was not fun, losing like that. When you know you can play with that team... you take away one inning and we can play with them.