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Texas Tech - Nebraska Postgame Quotes
May 23, 2002 | Baseball
May 23, 2002
Nebraska Head Coach Dave Van Horn
On the Game
"I can't remember since I've been at Nebraska that we have scored in every inning. That's what I told the team after the game, I said, our offense was just relentless, and we just kept finding ways to score runs. Every time they made a little bit of a run at us, almost like last night against Baylor, we countered and kind of slowed them down a little bit. "
"We had an eight run lead, and then we started walking people and getting behind in the count and those big bats of theirs came back. They have won 16 games in a row, and we knew they weren't going to go away quietly."
On the Performance of Shane Komine
"His pitch count was anywhere from 110 to 120. We are trying to get him back to where if he is going to pitch in a regional, we have got to test him and see if he can get back to where he was. He is in shape, it is just a matter of getting it done. Shane pitched tonight. He threw a lot of changeups and breaking pitches. He threw a get ahead type of fastball and then he would pop it every now and then. He just pitched.
On Nebraska's Hitting
"I didn't expect us to come in here and get 27 hits or whatever we have gotten the past couple of days. Not against teams No. 1 and No. 2s (starters) and pretty fresh bullpens. You have got a lot of options. It has been good, that is what it takes to put together a win streak. You can't just get it done on the mound, winning 3-2 games, you have to get it done winning 9-8 games as well. "
Nebraska Pitcher Shane Komine
On his being back from the injury
"Well control wise, I'm not there yet. I'm still trying to work my way back like Coach (Van Horn) said. Tonight was one of those games that was a lot easier as a pitcher because the offense was scoring a lot of runs. You knew you had that kind of support. It was a pretty good game all around for us. I think I started throwing well as the game went on."
Texas Tech Head Coach Larry Hays
Overall
We played a team that played some really good baseball tonight. They did a good job of picking on our defense. We didn't help ourselves either with our pitching and our defense, and you put those two things together things aren't going to go well.
I thought that we had a chance early, but we didn't get it done and then they got the lead and didn't let up.
On Tech's Pitching
(Nathan) Fouts wasn't that bad, he was kind of in there, and then they started getting the two-out hits. We tried to go an inning a pitcher for a while, and that didn't work. It wasn't all pitching tonight, either. Our defense didn't help us any.
Texas Tech Infielder Bryon Smith
On Shane Komine
He made some quality pitches in every stage of the game tonight. I didn't think he was as good as I have seen him before, but he was good enough to win the ball game.
