 Hello, and welcome into the Coach's Corner. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Dave Trumbo, head coach of the women's volleyball team, and coach over the last few games, pretty recent success. Most recently with Eastern, number 13 team in the country, coming for the Mac Commonwealth Freedom Crossover Day on Saturday. Talk a little bit about that game. Well, that is the last crossover we're going to have. We individually, we really liked it, but most of the coaches did not like to have another free weekend. We liked the fact that we got to have Eastern on our court at 10 o'clock in the morning on Saturday, and I am happy to say our girls really played really well. We had some things we were working on in practice that came to fruition in the game. Wasn't easy. Eastern's an excellent team. They were ranked number 10, and they had lost their first match to Mary Warsh last week, and then when we got them on Saturday, they were number 13. I have a lot of respect for them. We may see them again in the NCAA if we each get bids, but we face them at least two or three times over the last number of years in the NCAA. A lot of good things happened in that match. And individually, talk a little bit about it, is some players having some big days, one being Mariah Savage. Talk a little bit about how she came out to have such a great day. Mariah absolutely has the capability to put the ball down. A lot depends on if she's having a great day, but then Sarah, her setter in the 6-2, she sets Mariah, because they're always on the court together. Sarah's got to have a good day, and we've got to pass the ball well, so we can set our right side. And all three things happened, and Mariah got her confidence going, and then if they decide they are going to hit the ball at our setter, and she digs it up, then Deanna Bradbury, a libero takes the second ball, and she puts some really nice second balls up there for Mariah, and then everybody in the gym knows where the ball's going, so there's a double block waiting for Mariah, and it was, you know, both those kids were way over six foot, both 6-1, 6-1, and the other one around six foot. So, but she was able to do some great things with the ball, and continue to do that against the sales. So, fantastic weapon. Annika Swartz cannot always, you know, they're, most teams are camping on her, they're gonna say, we're not gonna let this kid beat us, make somebody else beat us, and Mariah had a great day. You did, you were able to do that. A lot of weapons on that front row for you guys. And then, moving into this week, you got, is it Hood on Wednesday? No, we've got Winder, Winder on Wednesday. We had Hood and Lycoming, you know, since we last talked, we got a big win against Arcadia, which was a conference win. Then we played Gallaudet on Thursday, and got a 3-0 win there, and then with Eastern, and then we had the sales after Eastern. The sales, the Men's Ice Hockey team was there, and they were all dressed up like it was Halloween. And I think they woke the sales up. Because the sales played very, very well. But we were able to get a 3-1 victory. So, this week we moved on to Weidner, which is we have to go to Weidner, and that's always been a difficult match for us. Weidner took Lebanon Valley 5, so they're improved. They've got a very good setter. They've got a good outside hitter. They've got some really good players. So that's going to be a tough match for us on Wednesday. And then your weekends are pretty wide open for the remainder of the season, or at least in the month of October. How important is it going to be playing these conference games in the middle of the week to stay with the gas pedal down? Well, we've got three conference matches left in Weidner. Actually, four. No, three. Yeah, Lebanon Valley and Alvernio. We've got to win those three matches and finish this conference season undefeated. So we will host the semifinals. That would assure us, I hope, and host the semifinals. And we'll play the four or five play-in if we can win those three matches. And we've got some good ones coming up about Stockton, not this weekend, but next weekend, who was number 26 in the country not long ago. Played them in the NCAAs two years ago. They went to the Sweet 16 last year. So they're very good. And Hopkins, it looks like they're going to win the Centennial Conference, at least that they're putting themselves in position to do that. So we've got some good, tough matches coming up. Great. And good luck in all those tough matches, coach. Thanks. Again, thank you for your time as well. He's Dave Trombo. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Coach's Corner.