 Welcome to Go Mustang Sports, I'm Dave McHugh joined by women's volleyball coach Dave Trumbo once again and coach we talked last week Going into the last weekend. You knew it was gonna be a tough challenge You're gonna be playing three regionally ranked teams all of them ahead of you Saturday was a bit rough. We'll talk about that But Friday good way to start things off with a big victory in five sets over Carnegie Mellon Well, we've really wanted to come away with a good start and Carnegie Mellon We came out playing some of our best volleyball. We have all year in the first two sets We were firing all cylinders one those first two sets first game little close Yeah, second set we established better control in the third set. We're up 12 to 5 and all of a sudden We lost the fourth for next 14 is 16. Carnegie Mellon realized there was a tournament. Oh, yeah They woke up a little bit. I mean their faces that you use we had them Yeah, and we made a couple of mistakes and they thought oh, maybe we can come back And they did and they won the fourth set but the fifth set in our team just really got behind us You know, we really you know were determined and we jumped out to a 7-1 lead and won that fifth set So that was huge Friday night just feeling good about ourselves coming in really as the underdog to all three teams Of course a 15.5th set getting up 7-1 is huge. You're halfway there pretty much Yeah, and and the other teams got a big hill decline, right? So you win that one pretty confident going into two teams, you know very well Eastern Juniata you played Eastern once earlier this season in a pretty good battle Eastern certainly seemed to have your number this time. Oh, yes, and Eastern last time we played them I've we really had a chance to win and just I didn't do it This time Eastern had made some lineup changes because of injuries now They're used to those changes and that's the best I've seen Eastern play and we didn't play particularly well And when you play a good team, they can make you look bad and Eastern made us look bad They they they look like the number two seed in our region And of course then you follow it up with Juniata who you certainly know well They probably got a little bit on the pick with this team as well. Thanks to the NCAA tournament But this is a good battle to spike the outcome. Yeah, and I really think there is no. Oh, this is Juniata with us Having beaten them last year the first time we played them and the first game we were down We came all the way back caught him at 21 and then lost 20 26 Had we won that set might have been a different match all together because we played well in the second set Got and beat him 25 18 Then that third set we're down 10-1 we could have folded and said I will just go for the fourth game They didn't we came all the way back had a call two timeouts. I think it was 21 20 Before they were every established control So I was proud that we didn't fold in the tense fourth game. We did not play well We made a lot of errors and they beat us 3-1, but we walked out of their feeling Okay, one and two is not horrible. It could have been better, but it could have been a lot worse And maybe even this week will even move up because the teams around you around us You know, that's who we played they were both above us and the team right behind us Which was Muhlenberg lost to good old Mac foe messiah Lurking in the background And that's the thing is you knew going into the weekend. It was me tough I don't think anybody probably had the thought that you could sweep out of there And win all three though that would certainly have been a good thing one and two you you and I talking It didn't seem like it's been that demoralizing this teams rallying around it and said, okay We beat Carnegie Mellon. We had two tough games getting season of Juniana. Let's move forward and it's all about getting better Exposing the freshman who which we have a lot in the underclassmen of big-time matches against great opponents You know, we can learn so much about ourselves as long as we're going to stay positive about it Again, Meg Miller and Sammy Perlow great captains. They've been here before they've been the NCAAs three years in a row So they knew what this weekend was about because we want to be prepared So we're not the off-actor when we get to hopefully when we get to the NCAAs And that's the thing is you do have we're talking here on Tuesday You guys have a game tonight in conference action on the road You then have this weekend coming up Muhlenberg one of those opponents in region and Lynchburg It's now about making sure you get the job done It's also making sure your dot and i's and cross and t's and getting all the all the specifics down So you're kind of on a roll heading into the conference tournament. That's what we want to do We would love to win these last three Go into the conference tournament. We'll host the semi-finals It'll probably be the winner of like homing and widener and if we can get by one of those two schools then Actually, like Lebanon Valley beat messiah this week conference place So that two three seed semi-finals is going to be at Lebanon Valley not that surprised no not that surprised, but I do think that messiah can beat them Even though they won't be home. So that's that games a toss-up. So it'll be interesting Of course again, if everything bodes well, you'll once again be playing for a conference championship back here That's certainly stuff we could talk about next week the team You know you've been dealing with injuries all season as most teams do you've got senior leadership the underclassmen Those are all the storylines We've been following as you kind of come to a close here the regular season What's been the surprise maybe about this team? Maybe the fact that you've only lost five games or there have been other surprises We haven't talked about well That's definitely a surprise that we've only lost the five matches the beginning of the season I'll make a Three predictions right one is worst-case scenario Next is realistic and the third is unrealistic. We are above the unrealistic if we sweep these three games Right if we lose one of them 26 and 6 I believe yeah, that's was my unrealistic expectation Not that I don't want to lose in these next three games We're pleased with where we are what's happening It's very interesting right now is that we have so much depth at the competition for positions is still going on between Jackie Zepa and Lauren Weaver on the right side Jackie's a left-hander playing really well and Then in the middle because Kelsey stave is out with back injury. We've got Kelly McKenzie and Alexis Gibbs so those two are battling it out for that second middle spot so that we've got this going on all these people saw time in the big matches Care Anderson played a lot this weekend So there's probably 11 or 12 people that got a lot of good experience this weekend that you know Somebody's not playing well boom pull another one put put that one in and they're fine I know the focus is when the conference you're in the NCAA tournament automatically and you position yourselves the best You can at a decent seating for the tournament Per the weekend you just have is the pressure maybe a little bit more on to make sure you wrap up the conference Do you still think you've got a legitimate chance if the worst-case scenario were to happen? Well, it's gonna depend on what happens Saturday You know if we can't beat Muhlenberg and Lynchburg, then we're gonna have to win our conference shorter I think now if we do beat them And I don't know what the conference the regional rankings are gonna look like on Wednesday But if we do beat them We're pretty well positioned because the people in front of us Juniata should win Yeah, right Chris for Newport should win and Eastern's definitely gonna win when every year So and so I think we'll be able to play yeah So if we're that fourth fifth position regionally it might not be a bad position, but I sure don't want to take that No, absolutely not you want to win the conference. Well, it's certainly gonna fun season so far I know it was a big test this weekend at least the team seems positive coming out of it Obviously three big games ahead. We'll talk to the coach ahead Next week after those three games and ahead of the conference tournament, which once again has to come through Stevenson to be decided I'm pretty sure coach and the team is looking forward to sleeping in their own beds Oh, yeah for that. We'll talk to coach Dave Trumbull coming up next week as we mentioned again They'll be home on Saturday starting at 12 o'clock against Muhlenberg and Lynchburg Lynchburg in a try match you can catch those games at the Owings Mills gymnasium or on SUTV at go mustang sports calm. Thanks to coach Dave Trumbull. I'm Dave McHugh for go mustang sports