Full transcript from Kayla Beaver, Marlie Giles and Patrick Murphy in Oklahoma City.
The Alabama Crimson Tide softball team kept its season alive by defeating the Duke Blue Devils 2-1 at the Women's College World Series. Here is everything Alabama head coach Patrick Murphy along with catcher Marlie Giles and pitcher Kayla Beaver said after the game at the post game press conference.Just wanted to say Marissa and her team are terrific. I think it's the seventh year of the program and they're here at the World Series. We played them last year at Clearwater.
Tonight the first inning was big. Got a run. She saw the ball as big as a basketball tonight. It was perfect timing. We had a runner on, she hits the double. The next time she hits a home run. Two RBIs, one person. That's all Beaver needed. Briski gave us a good start. The reason why I took her out, a couple lefties in there, Beaver is really good against lefties. She goes hit less with nothing on her slate. A terrific relief job by Beaver.
It means everything. Wearing the A, it's a dream. Being here makes it even better. Everything that I wanted to happen coming in this year, having one year to do it, there was a lot I wanted to get done in a year. We've done it all. There's one more thing left.It means everything. Me and her, we've been working well together all year. What she's done since she's been back, again, I can't be more proud of her. She has come in, put the work in, come back guns a blazing.
Well, these two -- we set up a game ball, give the lineup cards. Whoever was the defensive MVP gets Duke's lineup card. That was Miss Beaver. Our offensive lineup card goes to Miss Giles. There's three. There's a big one that hangs in the dugout. I gave that to Lance McMahon, our pitching coach. That's his first win at the College World Series. You cannot understate the importance after really good pitching coach.
He has to call every pitch, which is agonizing in itself because that's a lot of pressure for anybody to do that. Go back to the 14-inning game against Tennessee. That's a lot of pitches for one person to be on the ball, concentrate. My baseball buddies always text me, I'm sure I have a bunch when I get to the bus, every play in softball matters. They all say, How do you do it? How do you do it? It's just the game. It's fun. Every pitch is involved.
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