"Well, I mean just another day where we just started out a little better, but we just had some key situations of really giving up pitches. To good hitters, you can't get behind and you've got to spin the ball - especially with two strikes. Good hitters get tougher with two strikes. Those are just things we've got to get better at and that we've got to work on going into next year. I think that overall our year was good. We went through a lot, fought through a lot of battles that we overcame. We just had a lot of adversity this year- injury-wise, physically, and emotionally. At the end of the day we just kept fighting- that's all you can hope for and all you can expect. I wish we would've stayed in it and played a little better, and finished a little bit stronger, but we kept fighting."

On giving up runs with two outs, and the frustration of not being able to finish off innings strong:

"Absolutely [frustrating]. Especially because in some of those situations we had two outs and two strikes. We just needed to hit our spots on pitches, and again those are tough lessons and tough situations that our pitching staff is going to have to really focus on getting better at. Good hitters are not going to chase junk, and when they get into those tight situations, those are situations where they're going to really focus in and attack your mistakes. Lexi was getting ahead and she was not finishing with spinning pitches. She left her curveball hanging a few times and her screwball hanging a few times and they just took advantage of it."

On her second tenure with Bethune-Cookman and the keys of getting back to the success she had previously:

"It's tougher this round, only because I was at Maryland for nine years and coming back here, I'm back for my fifth year. Facilities change, programs have changed, and it's a lot tougher competition as far as recruiting goes. Of course, the generations of kids are different too. I feel like this is more of a mentality of a team that these past couple years have really gotten into that place of that hungry, fighting, understanding, and knowing that they can be successful at this level. They can compete with anybody. They've just got to put in the work. And this is part of building it, and getting it back to that place. The more you get back into the postseason, the more comfortable you get with it, and the more you feel like you should be here. Eventually, you knock some of these teams off, and then that builds your confidence even more. That's the goal - to just keep these kids going, keep that culture going, keep that mentality going, and just keep it gelling and bounce. We've got to bounce from this and they'll learn from this. I guarantee you the kids that are coming back, and this is the difference too -with the team being more of my team, I'm building my team and my program-  is that these kids that are returning will be in my office on Monday telling me that they want to get back out there hitting, and that they want to be back out there practicing. That's the good thing. You want to be in that place. You want to have kids that want to come back, and they'll be working. They're not kids that are going to take time off- I know that that's their mentality."

BRIANNA SANDERS

On what this season meant to her:

"It really meant a lot because the first two years we always got back to the championship and then now finally, getting back to back- it's solidified, it wasn't a fluke. We meant to do that, we were supposed to be there, we were supposed to win, we were supposed to be here. So it was a really good feeling that we could end on that note."

NOTES: BCU now 8-23 lifetime in the tournament … The teams had met once previously, with BCU taking a 3-2 win in 2006 … Sanders' double was her 10th of the year … Bermudez finished the season with 169 strikeouts.