College Baseball: Quotes from Friday's 5-3 win

Texas State head coach Ty Harrington on starting pitcher Carson Smith, who tossed the Bobcats' first nine-inning complete game of the season: "We talked to him before the game about throwing a complete game. He needed to step into the moment and do that on Friday night. It's what you expect your Friday night guys to give you an opportunity to do."

Harrington on his team taking advantage of three errors by Northwestern State: "Obviously you'd like to score a few of your runs off your own hits, and we did, but we did a good job of putting the ball in play. We battled and I guess that's the right word for it because we had to scrape to get runs against (Demons starting pitcher Ryan Zimmerman).

Smith on his complete game: "It was nice to get, but we have a closer (Garret Carruth) who is trying to work for closer of the year, so it was tough taking that from him."

Smith on what pitches he felt comfortable throwing: "Everything was working well for me tonight. My curveball especially and while they were hitting my fastball early, I was able to keep it down in the last four innings."

Smith on the importance of winning the first game: "It's huge, but we still have two more to go if we want to make a statement."