Nebraska softball head coach Rhonda Revelle was plenty pleased with the early returns from her team as the No. 4 seed Cornhuskers took a lead on No. 5 seed Minnesota in a Big Ten tournament quarterfinal on Thursday.
And more than the results, Revelle was pleased with how her team was going about things. In a brief interview on Big Ten Network in the top of the fourth inning, with Nebraska up 4-1 after a big bottom of the third, Revelle raved about her squad’s energy and enthusiasm in the postseason.
“You know, it’s not so much what we’re telling them, it’s how they’re playing,” Revelle said. “They’re just playing with great spirit, they’re playing loose and playing for each other. Softball’s fun. Softball’s fun and it’s postseason, it’s a fun time of year. So I love the fact that they’re free and they’re just going for it.”
That intensity, energy and looseness led to the Cornhuskers exploiting all the possible opportunities early, both on the base paths and on defense. And the runs came by virtue of a pair of home runs.
Revelle was pleased with her team exploiting every possible margin, and praised their unrelenting, unceasing nature.
“Everything matters, there are no little things,” Revelle said. “I will tell you, the one thing about this team that they’ve done all year is they just keep going, they just keep playing hard and you can hopefully see that they have a lot of joy when they’re playing, and that’s all a coach can hope for.
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