 Hello, and welcome to the Dave Gage show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Greg Royce showing my students baseball coach, Dave Gage. Coach, last weekend, he had three games set with Lemon and Valley. Three very close, hard-fought games which were able to salvage the back half of the split of the double header on Saturday to at least earn one win in the series. A couple others, games got either way. Lemon and Valley was able to pull them out. Yeah, Friday was a really tough one. Had a pretty good lead through the first half of the game. Just couldn't hold on to it. The wind was sort of blown out. One of the things that we were disappointed with is we didn't attack the zone. I think we allowed the conditions of the game to us a little bit, especially our bullpen, who has been good the first half of the season. They just didn't do a great job on Friday afternoon. We didn't continue to score either. And that was sort of a down thing, is when you're up, you have to continue to score. So that was disappointing on Friday. I think that we really let that one get away. And then Saturday I was proud of our guys. I know we didn't get the first one, but we responded well. And after losing a game on Friday the way we did, you never know how your guys are going to show up the next day. And our guys did a really good job showing up. Lost the first one, but like you said, the second one, we played really well. Had a lot of bunts that we got down and just played well in that second game. Yeah. Obviously, I know there's still a lot of conference play left to go, but to continue to at least get wins in series and you haven't been swept down a conference series, obviously that's key as you stay in the hunt over these final few weeks. Yeah, I really do think that we're in a good position. I mean, we're two back with nine to go. And that's all we can ask for is to have a chance in these last couple of weeks. I believe in our team. I believe that we can beat anybody in our conference. Our conference is really good. But we've shown that we can beat anybody. We've shown that we can play with everybody. Now we just got to win. And right now we have a heartbeat. And hopefully that heartbeat will get a little bit stronger as we get closer. And to be honest with you, we want to play our best baseball at the end. And this is a good opportunity to do that. Yeah. And this week coming up, we've got a non-conference game tomorrow at Bridgewater. Then you've got a series from Messiah this weekend, Doubleheader home on Saturday. So you have two games at home. And hopefully, you know, build some momentum, like you said, over these final weeks. Yeah, very tough non-conference game here with an ODAC school. So excited about that to continue to play quality competition in our non-conference schedule. And then from there, we're going to play a really well-coached team in Messiah, who same thing, their backs are against the wall. They're going to have to come out and play well. And I'm sure they will. So we're not going to take them lightly. We're going to play hard. And as we said, every game is meaningful right now. We're going to play for ourselves in every game matter. So we're going to take advantage of that this weekend. All right, coach. We wish you the best of luck this week. And we'll chat next week. Thanks, Greg. All right, for Dave Gage, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Gage Show.