 Hello. Welcome to the Dave Trumbo show. I'm Greg Royce joined by the head coach of the Stevenson women's volleyball team, Dave Trumbo. And coach, you guys had a busy week at five matches and all. Let's start and talk about your conference over against Messiah here at home with three nothing win. Talk a little bit about that game. Well, I think the one of the great things about that match was we had a huge crowd and they were allowed and our girls really just seemed like they wanted to put the ball through the floor to get the crowd excited. And we just were a little bit nervous and did not play extremely well in the first two sets. Good enough to win. But in the third set we started to get it in gear and had some fun out there on the court. And so I just wanted to thank all the teams that supported us. You know men's ice hockey. There were so many of them there. Men's volleyball. So it was a great start for us. Messiah is a very good team. So it was nice to get a win. Yeah, you talked about and we talked a little bit after the match last week is like you said there was some nerves there in the beginning and you kind of improved as the as the match went on. And that's kind of been the way it's been. We had so much competition for different spots. We really haven't had our starting lineup together for very long. So we seem to be start out a little slow and then we just play better the longer the night goes on. Yeah, I wasn't mean to you know, obviously to start off your conference slate with a win just to not be all in one and be one and all. And that's a huge obviously it is huge. And thankfully it's happened six years that we've been able to get that first victory. And you know, it definitely sends a message to the rest of the conference because everybody's gunning for us. That's for sure. And they're going to see what does Stevenson look like this year and because everybody's trying to take us down. Yeah, absolutely. And you had that turning your back for a while now and you know, they're going to keep coming. So right, and we'll even talk about it. Yeah, I'm sure. And then look ahead. And then we go ahead to the weekend. You travel to Muhlenberg for the butter maker tournament had a real tough match on Friday night against the host. We were down to nothing down 2220 in the third set rally to win to stay undefeated. Talk a little bit about match and just the emotion of that. Well, that was we had SUNY Cortland early. And and we played pretty good. You know, and but then we had Muhlenberg and we'd watch a lot of tape in Muhlenberg and we thought they we knew they were good, but boy, they were phenomenal. That you know, for those real about two, two sets, plus, you know, the first 15 points, they were really, really good. And thankfully we're able to, you know, we're down 2220 and the game was in their hands and we were able to score five straight points. And and that really kind of sent them for a loop. And then we then we, you know, that great confidence boost for us. And then the fourth set was, it was a runaway. So which I feel like if you've got to win three in a row, you've got to have one of them that's an easy right, or you're not so tense, and it's not so close all the time. fifth set kind of the same thing, we switched sides of the court at eight, five. But by that time, you know, we we were really feeling pretty good about ourselves and you know, and we're getting it from, you know, our pin hitters are just, you know, Messiah, I mean, excuse me, Mariah, I think put up 16 kills and Annika had 13 and Katie leverage had 10 and Lauren Weaver had 11. And so we've really had a good night. Yeah, I mean, like you said, the emotion, it's really hard to win three close sets in a row, just because, you know, you get to 222232323, you know, anything can happen at that point. It's really, it's really hard to try to pull out three straight, basically coin flips. It is. And that's why you got to have that one easy, easier game to kind of relax and say, you know, and kind of catch your breath and know, you know, you're in you're in this match, and you're going to win it. Yeah, we talked about a few here upper class, obviously, Mariah, Annika, Annika, you know, Lauren Weaver, Kate Lettridge is one that's really stepped up over the first couple weeks of the season, kind of taking her game to another level as a sophomore. Yeah, I'm thinking back, I think it was Katie that had 18 kills, that game. I believe so. Yeah, yeah, because I'm all the games are kind of mixed together. But yeah, I think Katie had 1440 attempts and 18 kills that game. So yes, because we were I remember saying she had a coming out party on the butts on the way home, couldn't be happier for somebody that basically played behind a senior last year, worked really hard knew that position was open and came in and said, you know, I want to win it, and has done a phenomenal job. And she's just added to our rep, you know, our offense. Yeah. Now looking ahead, switch gears, look into this week another tough schedule starting at tomorrow night, you travel down to Marymount team to beat you on your home floor last year. I'm sure there's a little bit of revenge. The girls are looking for going in that one. Yeah, I don't think they're going to look past Marymount this year and Marymount can have a very tough crowd. They know some of our players. So that's, that's going to be a good match on their floor. And you know, and of course, they were already we're already talking about how they beat us last year. So, you know, that was a time where we were reeling. We had lost four matches in a row and we had a really tough weekend against some great opponents. And when then we came in, Marymount was on fire. Yeah. Like, you know, everybody's fired up to play us and they Marymount not to take anything away from them. They played phenomenal that night. We just didn't play good enough. Yeah. And then looking ahead to the weekend, we can travel to Susquehanna for a tournament, the big match there, Carnegie Mellon on Saturday. Well, Susquehanna is not too bad either. Absolutely. We got them on Friday night and they just beat number seven Mary Washington. Okay. They beat Mary Washington over the weekend. So and Susquehanna, a lot of these teams are their records are deceiving Susquehanna right now is four and four, but they beat the number seven team in the country. And if they beat another really good team this weekend, this is a pivotal weekend for us, Greg, because we're going to really find out how good we really are. You know, with Carnegie Mellon, I'm sure they were ranked 24th last week, I'm thinking, and they are, I believe nine and oh, so they're probably going to be around 20th, I'm thinking this week. And then we play SUNY Brockport on Saturday as well, back to back. Yeah, the only school that's playing back to back matches that day. But SUNY Brockport went to sweet 16 last year. Yeah. So this, you know, I'll try and schedule one really, really difficult weekend. So this is it. So we're going to see how we fare this year. But it's also on the flip side, obviously, it's very difficult. But if you come out of the weekend, you know, not to look ahead, but if you come out two and one, or if you really do well three and oh, you know, that's when people across country will probably start taking notice a little bit. We're not going to get in the top 25 by beating teams that aren't in the top 25. So we've got to beat teams that are in the top 25, but we want to be there. And so that's what this weekend is all about. But we have to get past Marymount first. Yeah, obviously. Well, thanks a lot, coach. Best of luck this week. And we'll see you back here next week. For Dave Tremble, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Tremble show.