 Hello, and welcome to the Dave Tremble show presented by Buffalo Wildlands. I'm going to be very sure of my season of women's volleyball head coach, Dave Tremble. The coach quite a lot has happened since we last spoke about a month ago. Just overall, how has the season been going for you? About as to be expected, I thought we played, we were really pointing to where that Hopkins game both undefeated. They were ranked number nine in the country at the time. I believe they're ranked number seven now, and we played them really well for two sets, split and then did not play well long enough that night. And that kind of steam rolled into a loss to Marymount, who I think we just ran into a steamroller that night. Marymount played fantastic. We just played okay on their court. But it really gave us some things to work on and look at going into this last week. Yeah, talk a little more about Hopkins match. I was going to have the results you wanted, but I'm sure when you learned some things in two, it was a great atmosphere that night. Two undefeated teams, you know, had a pretty good crowd. And it was a fun night despite maybe not as a coaching staff, it may wasn't as fun a night, but for a fan, I'm sure it was a fun night. I felt like, of course they were, it was free, mission was free, but I thought that the fans got a lot for their enjoyment. I mean, the first two matches were great. I thought we served the ball extremely well in the second set and passed it well. So when we were able to get them a little bit out of system and predictable, we could set up our block and we had nine blocks through the first two sets. And then the fans really got into it. And I think that really bothered Hopkins a little bit before they kind of regroup. We didn't pass as well. And there were four weeks and we didn't serve as well. So that was kind of the story. But the fact that we have four freshmen on the court playing in that kind of atmosphere is great learning experience for them. Right. Obviously, nothing but help going forward. Another match that kind of had kind of a big match atmosphere when you're up at Arcadia at the beginning of the month, you're down two sets to none. They were serving for the match and you were able to come back with that fourth set and were able to win in the fifth. So just kind of talked about that and how that match went. Well, that we would probably never gotten beaten that badly in the first two sets. I mean, they beat us 25, 18, 25, 16. And we were just trying to grind it out because they were playing incredible and we were not playing well at all. We're just trying to grind it out till we started playing well and they came down to Earth. And we won that third set and the fourth set, they had us 22 to 18 and they ended up getting two match points serving for two match points. And somehow we were able to pull it out. And then the fifth set was 15-13. So in points, they beat us by 10 points. So we walked out of that match, not feeling great because they girls are not used to getting beaten like that. So we made some adjustments based on that match as well. And that was, I mean, that's just us just believing we could win. That was what it came down to. Yeah. And talk about, we're shifting towards the end of the regular season, you've got match tomorrow at Hood and then Friday you close, I can screen at home. And obviously, we'll cover Sermon next week. So try to talk about those last couple of matches that I'm heading into next week. Well, we've got back-to-back matches and I do that purposely. If we do get a bit of the NCAA tournament, we have to play three in a row if we want to get out of our region. So we're playing back-to-back purposefully at the end of the season. They get a weekend off the Canary Group. We're going to host the semifinals like homing, beat Lev Val last night. So I'm not sure who the four. I think the four or five is going to be like, probably be going to be the winner like homing in Lev Val. And so we'll prepare for them and hopefully we can get to the finals on Saturday night. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, something you certainly don't want to take for granted. It's obviously exciting to be in this position again once again. And I just talked about moving forward that being able to be in this position once again. Well, we had a little meeting last week with a freshman. I'm not sure they really understood the gravity of what was going on and how difficult it is to be where we are. And how they had played 25 matches. It was time for them to step up. We weren't getting a lot of communication on the court. And the freshman, because there's so many of them, had to step up and start to make plays. And I think they've responded. Practice has been a little bit crisper. The focus has been a little bit better as we come down. This is when we play our best volleyball. And we expect high level play here at the end of the season. Yeah. And certainly, you know, looking at the regional rankings, you know, maybe in other years, maybe there's a chance for that at large or something like that. This year, it's a conference tournament. That's your only road in. Kind of knew that from the very beginning. I've got to say I'm very pleased to be 25 and two at this point. There were a lot of matches on our schedule that I thought could go the other way. And we were able to step up and take. So at 25 and two, I'm okay with that and where we are. And if we can't win our conference tournament, we don't deserve to be in. Yeah. Absolutely. All right, Coach, we wish you the best of luck next couple of weeks. And we'll chat again soon. Thanks, Greg. All right, Dave Trumbo. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Trumbo Show.