 Hello, and welcome to the Dave Gage Show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royston, my Stevenson baseball coach, Dave Gage. Coach, the weather's kind of wreaked havoc. You said it a little bit, but you finally completed both the hood and the Albright series, so obviously both conference series. So kind of take us through first hood and then the Albright series last weekend. Sure, it's been a while since we talked, so we got a lot to talk about here today. Hood series, we played a double header last Monday. And I thought we didn't really play great. Last time we talked, we were playing so well. We were coming off a little five game win streak there, but we're just lacking a little inconsistency right now. So I think we had 19 walks or something like that. A double header, not very good. Not going to win any level of baseball, especially the level that we're playing at. So that was Monday. Then the Albright game, the kid hit their best hitter, Yordy, their number three hitter, hit two home runs. Tough luck, our guy threw a good pitch. Their kid just made a better swing. We come back, we get the first game on Saturday with a great pitching performance by James. And the second game, we just didn't get off to a good start. So it was a very inconsistent week. And I think that happens when you go back in the gym, go outside, back in the gym. So we just got to find it and get back to where we were a few weeks ago. And then obviously you played hood again on Monday and we're able to get out to a strong start in that one and get that victory to salvage one game out of that series. We're very proud of our guys for Monday. I mean, I mean, we lost 21 to four on Saturday, not not an easy way to come back when after Easter. So obviously we don't practice on Sunday and you got to show up and go play a team that was receiving votes and just a quality opponent. I think they're 18 and four and we want to play them and we jump on them in the first, get to the same thing in a second. We executed Buntz that day. We stole bases. We played the game the way we want to play the game, which is what we did not do last week. So really, really proud of our guys for Monday's performance. Yeah, so obviously you played a Salisbury non-conference game, got some different guys in and just no chance to get out and compete. Yeah, sure. And that's what we want to do. I mean, Salisbury, we know is a very great program, great tradition. You know, so for us, it's we got to see where we want to be in our program, you know, a program that is perennial top 25 year in a year out. And that's where we want to be. I think that we do have the talent to be able to compete with them. Our best versus their best. They played better than we did yesterday. And that's that's a chance for us to get back to the drawing board at practice the next two days before we go into Lev Valley this weekend. Yeah. And just transition, like you said, the conference series this weekend. Lebanon Valley, you've got a couple days of practice. Then you have a single game here on Friday and scheduled for double hunter on Saturday. We'll see what the weather brings. But, you know, obviously another chance to, you know, go out and, you know, hopefully win the series and, you know, stay right in the hunt. That's the biggest thing right now is just that we have to take advantage of every day. We've talked about it so much in our program of win the day and improve each day. And again, going back to last week, that's what we were disappointed is that we didn't improve the way that we wanted to. And now we get two days of practice, which again, when you get backed up and schedule is, you know, you're dealing with a recovery time and making sure your pitchers arms are good. We can really practice the next two days and and really improve to get ready for the weekend. And, you know, we're not worried about the playoffs at this point. When we still got four series left is way too early. It's just win the game that's in front of you and take advantage of each and every day. Yeah. Like you said, those two days of practice, obviously chance for improvement. Obviously, you know, the wins and losses will take care of themselves as long as you continue to get better. Sure will. And when we play our best, we compete with anybody. I mean, we've seen that we've played with Frostburn. We've played with, you know, some teams that we've played with Widener, who is a very good team. When we play well, we can play, you know, we beat York. We've played some really good teams when we've played well, but it's now can we do it every single day? Yeah. And that's, you know, that's part of being an elite level program of where we want to be. Yeah, absolutely. All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck both on the field and hopefully with the forecast and we'll chat next week. Thanks, Greg. All right, for Dave Gage, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Gage show.