 Hello and welcome to the coaches corner. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Dave Trumbo head coach of the women's volleyball team and coach Go out on Saturday and and get that six or six straight bid to NCAA fifth straight conference championship It was the typical Messiah Stevenson matchup where goes five We probably should have won that first one kind of gave it to him And that sometimes can come back to bite you and thankfully the second and third set we played much better For set Messiah hit 297 Beat us pretty good and thankfully we got off to a good start in the fifth set And when you're playing the fifth game, you've got to get off to a good start and thankfully Sarah Ballinger got back there with her serve and did a great job and Anika stepped up big time with four kills And three blocks in that fifth set and so that really she was a difference maker in that fifth set There was a lot of excitement in that fifth set of both on the court with the players and then in the in the crowd To with a huge crowd on hand. What did that do for the momentum in the I thought there's probably it was equal You know the Messiah travels really well, and there was a lot of Messiah fans there They had ten seniors. So this was their last game Together and so there was a lot of emotion and from parents as well as players So I think just the environment to play in like that our girls love that noise. They love having a huge crowd They love the pomp and circumstance. So You know so and they seem to perform well under that in that atmosphere and we keep talking about being battle tested They sure certainly were battle tested in this win streak of yours They got going on with some high-profile teams and then in that conference championship What does that do getting you ready for the NCAA tournament with Randolph making that you're gonna go play at Mary Washington? You know we've got a nice mixture of freshmen and sophomores and juniors and seniors all on the court I think that the juniors and seniors have been there before they can lead the sophomores I mean, it's not an accident that that Sarah sets Victoria twice because we've got a freshman Middle set by a senior setter that she can keep her focus the way the line-ups put together is with experience and Confidence in mind so we feel like we put together a pretty good balanced line-up and Not depending on any one person, right? You know because when we can win and you know Mariah Savage didn't have a great game this the referees called it very tight They're consistent, but it's very tight So we both teams kind of had to go back to what they knew they could do without being called for a double And that was go outside And that's what Missiah loves to do anyway And you guys had some pretty good passing out of that back and a lot of Experience out of that back line to getting those plays set. Yeah, I'm really glad you brought that up because Kristen Brooks and Annika Swartz and Deanna Bradbury are three primary passers all three pass phenomenal they just you know time after time the ball was right to the setters hands and we could run our offense and That was probably the difference in the game was the serving in the passing which it always comes down to and we did a good job Serving them tough and I thought we did a great job passing and setting up our offense And I imagine that'll be part of the game plan headed into this weekend and looking for a little bit of retribution Getting past the first round this year. It always is the game plan and some days you just have better days passing than others We practice it every day That's why when we go to down to Mary Washington to play well Each team has an hour practice on the day before it's all about getting used to the court in the background in the lights And being able to see the ball and serve receive It to be able to put up a good pass and you also have a pretty solid coaching staff there with you to Getting you prepared as far as well You'll see from the opposition and how to prepare and get the ball down when you need it Yeah, you know Bobby Knight used to say, you know, everybody has that will to win but how hard are you going to prepare to win and Yeah, Brent Whitehead Laura Whitehead Yeah, I mean Melissa Button is she I mean because all three of them are working on different segments of getting us ready Even if it's the buses and the rooms and all the things that all have to go together to make it make it Successful for us. So everybody's got their role just like the players have their role and You know the preparation this year has had a major impact and all the film work that Brett Whitehead does And gets us prepared and gets that get into my hand so we can both watch it and decide how we're gonna go with the game plan Well coach will be watching these games this weekend, and I'm hoping it's games. Yes games games Good luck this weekend, and we wish you the best and We'll be watching. Thanks Joe. He's Dave Trumbo. I'm Joe Waman. This has been the coach's corner