What Alabama head coach Patrick Murphy had to say about Kayla Beaver, Alea Johnson, Abby Duchscherer and the Crimson Tide's performance to get the win over the Wildcats Friday night.
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00:00 What do you think the biggest thing the team can learn from what happened in the seventh
00:03 inning there?
00:04 Oh man, first of all, Ailey Johnson has ice in her veins.
00:09 That was incredible to see.
00:13 Can't give a good team extra outs any time, but especially in the seventh inning in a
00:18 one run game.
00:22 You know, I thought our defense on the infield was outstanding.
00:26 Dowling made several really good plays against some of the fastest kids in the country.
00:32 That all that and Beaver, you know, having pitched seven innings yesterday, comes back
00:37 against an even better lineup today.
00:40 And you know, the solo home run, we can deal with that any time.
00:45 But I feel like we're nowhere near where we can be.
00:49 Offensively, we left way too many on base early in the game.
00:54 And you know, the starter for them was 8-0 with a hell of an ERA.
01:00 And she lasted an out.
01:02 So that Dukeshire's ball was a moonshot.
01:06 That was crushed.
01:07 What was the starter doing, do you think, for your hitters, really giving them trouble?
01:12 Yeah, she's, you know, she had played in Kentucky, so we knew her.
01:15 And you know, great young lady.
01:18 Change up, drop ball, a little bit of a kind of a drop curve away.
01:24 We just need to be patient a little bit on her and make her bring it up.
01:27 Because you know, like the last inning we swung on a couple that were balls in the dirt
01:31 or just too low.
01:33 So we got to make her bring it up tomorrow if we see her.
01:36 Was having Beaver pitched back-to-back days something you kind of want to see before SEC
01:40 play starts or just with it being her senior day or just matchups or a little bit of all
01:43 that?
01:44 Yeah, mainly senior day.
01:45 Because you know, the schedule was weird because of Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
01:50 But true, SEC as well.
01:53 You never know.
01:54 I think this is the first time all year that she pitched back-to-back, if I'm correct.
01:59 So she's, you know, obviously she can do it.
02:04 How impressed were you with her stamina coming off a complete game and still going six innings
02:08 to that?
02:09 Awesome.
02:10 You know, and she told Lance before the game that she was good to go.
02:14 So and obviously she's going to start, it was her senior day, but I wasn't sure how
02:18 long she'd last.
02:20 And you know, we kept making plays behind her and she kept making good pitches.
02:24 So to hold them one run, that's, that was big.
02:29 Because they've been run-rolling everybody.
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