Kent State head coach Scott Stricklin on last night's game
opening statement
"Well, put simply it was starting pitching. Gerrit Cole was obviously very good. Robert Sabo did not have a good start. That was the difference in the game and the game was over very early."
on Kent State starting pitcher Robert Sabo
"Robert has been up and down all year. If you look back at his starts they are either really good or what you saw tonight. We were hoping the other Robert Sabo would show up."
on what he told the team after the game
"That's not the way that I want people to think about our team. We are a better team than that. We played very poorly. The ball went up in the air and we didn't catch it. We had a ground ball to shortstop that we made a misplay on and extended an inning. So we had chances to get out of it early and quite frankly it should have been three or four to nothing. We gave them extra outs and they took advantage of it and did a great job."
on UCLA's Gerrit Cole
"When you have a guy like Cole on the mound, you have to get to him early. If he settles in he's going to be really, really good. He pitched very well."