Opening Statement:

POST-GAME QUOTES

2014 NCAA CHARLOTTESVILLE BASEBALL SUPER REGIONAL Davenport Field • Charlottesville, Va.

University of Maryland Quotes from Coach Szefc

“Obviously this was a disappointing day for our guys, but Virginia played very well. [Brandon] Waddell was very good and made big pitches when he had to. I thought we had a lot of good swings. We hit some balls hard right at people. We had a couple of speed bumps on the base paths, but that’s going to happen at times. We’ve been pretty good about that for most of the year. I think it was one of those days where a lot of things didn’t go our way. Mike [Shawaryn] had a good start. If you look at some of the base hits early on, it’s not like he was getting hammered. There was a ground ball here and a blooper there, but good teams like Virginia will take those base hits and turn them into good things. It could have gone a lot better for us, but the bottom line is that it’s a three-game series and, realistically, it’s hard to come in here and beat these guys in the first two. We just have to re-gather ourselves and flush this really quick and come back mentally prepared tomorrow.”

On tomorrow’s matchup:

“No matter who they throw out there tomorrow, it’s going to be challenging. It’s not like they’re going to throw a weak arm at you. We’ll have to have our best effort out there offensively and defensively to get it done. At this stage of the season, you know you’re going to face a challenging pitcher. We’re going to need to play well to be successful. We need to get off to a good start.”