 Hello and welcome to the Jason Tawny show. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with Jason Tawny head coach of the baseball team and coach You guys had a very important series with Lebanon Valley unable to pull it off But man the team showed some fight in that series capper against Lebanon Valley. Yeah, it was it was a tough series Really important series to us. Unfortunately. We dropped the first game. I had to lead late our bullpen just just didn't get done even after making some changes and then You know went into the doubleheader Dan through the ball, okay I just couldn't quite get enough runs to win it and then the second game. Yeah, down by three bottom of the seventh We come back tie it up and then have a walk off by by Kevin copis with it And they it's recorded as a single, but it was a one hopper to the fence. Yeah It was it was a shot to win to win the ball game. So it was nice to get that one But yeah, it was this weekend was a challenge for us We didn't we didn't we didn't pitch as well as we needed to and doesn't necessarily pull you out of the playoff race But now a little bit more pressure on these series coming up, especially with the big one against Alvarnia this week Yeah, you know, it's it's it's amazing that we're in a position. We're still sitting in fifth place We have a shot to catch the fourth place team Technically speaking. Yeah, I mean if we went out, we're probably gonna be in but we have to we have to sweep Alvarnia this weekend and we'll have to sweep messiah at the end of the year and you know Alvarnia is a good ballclub. I think they're number 11 in the country right now Are we capable? Sure. Mm-hmm, you know, is it is it possible? Absolutely Probable. Yeah. Yeah, that's gonna be a challenge. It's gonna be tough Right. He's gonna have to play your brand of vault consistently for the whole however many innings you guys have to play Yeah, I mean we'll have to play it at our best and like I said, we're capable. We've done it before You know, we're probably one of the few teams in the conference that that can beat Alvarnia multiple times in my opinion Which we did last year we beat them we beat them twice they beat us twice and then we had them Two outs bottom of the ninth at their place. We had them be we to beat them three out of four last year So we're so we're close. We could do it. It's just it's just difficult in any situation sweeping a series It doesn't matter who you're playing sweeping a series is difficult Before you guys head over to Alvarnia and then play them at home for senior day on Saturday You're gonna make a stop over at Catholic for an important out-of-conference game. How important is that for you? I think it's gonna be really important. I know we we played them two weeks ago. They are again a good program They were receiving votes. They were number 26 D3 baseball when we beat them last two weeks ago so they're a good program and You know, we like to use these non-conference games late in the year to start figuring out some others Maybe some other players some other situations some other things we get in We've also got a couple injuries so that opens up opens up some playing time for some people So yeah, I do think it's a really important game. We have a guys can be starting this Wednesday that it'll be his first collegiate start on the mound. He's pitched out of the bullpen with this be his first start on the mound That'll be awfully exciting to see and you guys talk about your capabilities At one point in the season you guys were playing Sunni Cortland I think they were number three or number five in the team. Yeah, and you guys were right there How do you lean on those experiences to push you over that hill? You know, we've we've we've played it. We always play a very competitive schedule We've always done that since I've been here We're gonna play a nationally ranked schedule and so we get to play teams like a coreland or whoever it may be and you know Through the majority of that game. We were right there And fortunately, you know, some of our personal woes which has been our bullpen, you know, haunted us in that game And it's still haunting us now. So, you know, we have to continue to build on that I mean, I as I said to the guys right after that game, you know, they're actually number two in the country That week I think they went to number three the next day But but still being playing the number two team of the country playing, you know, coach Joe Brown Who I've known for years who is one of the winningest coaches in the history of college baseball For him to even say to us that we were one of the toughest teams They played this year and you know, if you've got two more pitchers just like that guy who threw which is our number three At the time. He's like you guys should be in a regional. I said, yeah, that's that's that's the ability We haven't just haven't been able to put it together The ability and the goal and you know, you think about you don't want to think about next season You're focusing on this year But you think about the growth of the team and the guys as individuals It's leading to some optimism. It is, you know, it's you know I said it last week that we were a little bit of a rebuilding year and the truth of the matter is You know next year we this year we graduate five guys Two of which are starters. So we're gonna be returning seven position players and the two two pitchers that were a seven starting position players and the two pitchers that were That were losing her both out of the bullpen So we have a lot returning. So yeah, we look really promising moving forward, but that's not still not a good enough excuse You know in our program and you know this Joe, we want to win every year, you know rebuilding year Yeah, but you know, we expect our freshman to step up and some have right and we want to win every year and we can We know we just got to stay with that focus. Yep Well coach, I appreciate your time this week and good luck on your road games this week and again senior day on Saturday Sounds good. Thank you. He's Jason Taney. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Jason Taney show