 Hello, and welcome into the Coach's Corner. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Graham Miller, head coach of the women's soccer team. And Coach, last week you guys started out with on a short breath with Messiah. Yeah, we had that huge victory over Arcadia on a Saturday. And they were the number 16 in the country. And it's a huge 3-2 win. And just a great result for the girls. But yeah, we had to turn around pretty quickly and face Messiah, who was ranked number nine at the time, which I think they may be higher this week. But they were number nine on Tuesday when we faced them. So we didn't have a lot of time to prepare for Messiah. We had the week to prepare for Arcadia. Had a couple of days, really just one practice to prepare for Messiah. But I thought, the girls really responded well. We went down a goal after only four minutes. And when you're one nothing down to Messiah after four minutes, you kind of worry that maybe things will go really worse as it did against Hopkins earlier in the season. But the girls responded. And the fact that we get through the first half and only down 1-0, and then a great goal from Lexi. I mean, you got to hit it. The goalkeeper didn't make a mistake. But Lexi had a good rip on it. And that got us to 1-1. And then I thought, all right, well, we're here. We've got Messiah a little bit in the ropes. And they just had a little bit more energy than I thought than we did. And they were able to grind out the 2-1 win. And you guys were able to bounce back and get your energy back into senior night on Friday with a 4-0 win. Yeah. And we talked about it was going to be a big game not only for our seniors, but the fact is if we won the game, we thought we would at least secure a spot in the top five to make the playoffs, which we did, which was great. So now that we're already in the playoffs, now it's a question of where can we finish up? And my goal for Friday was to obviously have the girls come out and play a strong game. It was tough weather conditions. The wind was blowing like a Scottish Gale. And we were able to get that goal, Alex Hamill, getting our first collegiate freshman goal. And that was great to get us going in the first half and then three goals in the last 10 minutes shows that we just we don't give up. We keep going. And Julia Webb got one, our first junior who hits a great shot and just a great rip from I think like 25 yards out, which got us a nice goal. And Alaina doing it again, our freshman with another header. And then Katie Mayer got to give her credit on the last goal because she at least went for the rebound, which led to Alvernia players kicking off into the goal. So that's down to Katie crashing it and making the most of her opportunity when she got a chance. So overall, a good win. Yeah, putting that pressure on so that Alvernia would make that mistake. Either she was going to win the ball or something positive for us was going to happen. Yeah, and that's great. And if she hadn't been there, they probably would have got away. So that was just great that Katie did what we'd been asking. We'd been working on that in practice. And for our three seniors, Alexis Sejak, Jordan Paredo, and Jessica Demko, it was a great night for them with their families there and a great performance. All three of them played well. Just happy for them to senior night. You want it to be a win to make everybody happy. So I was happy for the three of them to go out on senior night with a victory. And you guys had that pedal down for the entire game. Alvernia had very few chances on the defensive side. Yeah, I don't think even Tiffany had a save to make. So I think all the shots were off goal. So that just shows you we did dominate. And especially, like I said, the conditions were tough. And when the ball's blown around like that and hard on the field, the fact that we did dominate. And yeah, we got the goals I think we deserved. Yeah, I would say we've played in tough conditions before earlier in the season and didn't get the result. Didn't go the way that it went for us on Friday. Yeah, that's it. So like I said, the goal is to play the best soccer in October. The goal is not to play the best soccer in September and peak too early and then start. And teams will do that. And we've got a peak at the right time, which is in conference and ready for the playoffs. And now that we're in the playoffs now, let's make the most of this last week of the season for next week. Right. And we touched on it a little bit about this last week. Two more conference games. The math falls where you've got to win one of them to be on the top three seats. Yeah, so the way it works out, if we can get one victory over these last two games, then we'll be in the top three and not have to play in the fourth-fifth game. So the two teams we're playing, starting with Lebanon Valley on Wednesday at their place on the grass, they're a very strong team. They've been ranked in the region this year. So that's going to be a big game for us and a big test for what we can do going into the playoffs because they're going to come at us and we've got to play our best game. So we can win that, or at least assure us of a top three going into the last game on the road against like homing, who actually just beat Lebanon Valley last week, three, two. So then another team that on any given day can play really well. So these last two games are going to be real tests setting us up for the playoffs next week. Well, Coach, congratulations on clinching a playoff spot. Thank you. And we're looking forward to seeing how we fall down, or fall into. I'm excited. Just got to, we've got to get through this. We won game at a time. We've been seeing that all year. And we'll be ready for Wednesday. All right, Coach, thank you for your time today. And he's Graham Miller. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Coach's Corner.