 Welcome to the Kathy Rayleigh show. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Kathy Rayleigh head coach of the women's lacrosse team. Coach, you guys, let's talk about Wednesday first. We have to. Was that a wake up call for the team? I hope so. Couple things could have happened with that. We slept through the first 45 minutes of the game, and by the time we started to play, it was too late to really rally to 11 goals or 10 goals or whatever it was. I think we did put four or five goals in in about four minutes. So we're capable of doing so much. Thursday's practice, I didn't know what I would see. Would I see a defeated group? Or would I see a group who is ready to work hard and make some changes? And when we walked out onto the field on Thursday, we had a great practice. I think we learned from a lot of our mistakes. And we fixed some of the scoring issues that we had and tried to really put a focus on limiting our turnovers. And here we go. We head into Saturday's game. We have so very few turnovers and some balance scoring and certainly a high total of goals, which makes me happy. You mentioned that Thursday practice. Where my office is, I have the luxury of watching almost every team practice. Seemed like the group was determined out there. And they showed it on Saturday with a balanced attack. And how pleased were you with that performance? I am very pleased. I think we're doing some really nice things. I want to start bringing that kind of performance and that kind of push for fast break goals into practice. We need to challenge our defense more on a day-to-day basis. If we can start doing that on a regular basis, I think that we can really turn this team around, turn the season around, and get to that winning and winning side of the record faster. They're a hard-working group. And they're led by some seniors who want, they don't want to leave their senior year with a losing record. They want to win. So I think we've got a good combination that will get us through this last month of the season. I wanted to talk about that senior group. Each one of them gets a goal on Saturday, which of course was a senior day. Just talk a little bit about that senior class, as you were. How determined they are for this year. Well, I think that they absolutely love to go to goal. We have a senior class that is four of our, I think it's four of our five attackers, our seniors. They're well over 65% of all of our point total, I believe, and maybe even our goal total as well. I'm not sure I haven't checked in a week or two. So they're willing to get the job done. We need to continue making changes in how hard we fight back for the ball when we lose it. We, again, have to cut down on the number of turnovers. But sometimes I think those turnovers, Joe, come from a, they want to do so much. They're so thrilled to go for that pin point, thread the needle pass. And it all comes from a really great place. And as a coach makes me proud, this group of seniors on attack, they need to start making really great decisions now that it's April and realize what they're capable of and when to push it and when to hold possession. If we could get that down, that controlling the clock down, which we've been working a lot on this past week, if we can get that down, I think that we're gonna be a really tough foe heading into the conference playoffs. I would agree to that entirely. It seemed like the clears that you guys were able to accomplish on Saturday, you guys really wore them down, really patient, worked the box like you emphasized after the Messiah game, and it worked out for you guys. Yes, and they want to do the right thing with that. And I think that we have two or three people that want to put it on their shoulders, and it's got to be a team effort. Everybody's got to catch and throw well. Everybody's got to attack the goal, whether you are Matt coming out of the cage or the lowest defender on the field when you get the ball, the entire opponent's team should think you're going to goal, and that's how things open. And we got away from that in the Messiah game and the Lebanon Valley game. We would catch and kind of be a passer instead of look to be an attacker. And I think we're turning the corner on that as a group. As you guys get ready for this week, again, no rest for the weary. Two more conference games, you guys head to Widener and then host Hood on Saturday. How important are these games for you? They're very important. We actually have, I think we have Hood on Wednesday and Widener on Saturday, but that's okay. It's Monday morning and that totally makes sense. I think we'll be able to really use Hood as a gauge on how to successfully run full offensive possessions. So I think that we're really looking forward to that. You know, Widener had a great game. I think Widener lost by one or two to Lebanon Valley this week or on Saturday, so they're gonna be every bit of a test that we hope that they will be. So we're looking forward to that and hoping it's a nice, gorgeous day. It is our junior day. So we have a lot of junior recruits coming, which is amazing. And we want to kind of show off for them at home. Well, hopefully you do guys accomplish that. Yes, thank you. And good luck this week. Thank you. She's Kathy Rayleigh. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Kathy Rayleigh Show.