 Stevenson gets the 12-11 win over Randolph-Macon here today at Mustang Stadium, Glen Clark, MC McFadden, now joined by the head coach of the Mustangs, Coach Kathy Rayleigh. Coach, a wins, a wins, a wins, a win, right? There's so much relief to the fact that we could win a game. I almost am kind of excited that it was close and that we got to see that we are capable of elevating our game with three or four minutes left. We're capable of getting better on defense. We're capable of moving the ball well on offense. So I was really happy to see that we were able to win the close one today. Your scoring was really spread out today. You had two defenders score. You had a multitude of goals from the midfield. Right. Few goals from the attack. We know that's been an issue. You've been talking about getting your attack to score. Sure. Were you pleased with the scoring balance? Absolutely. You know, we tried to change up the draw to see if we can't have different looks as we head off the draw and down into the attacking end. And, you know, to watch Jamie Bittner get the opening draw and head downfield and just rip the upper corner, that was a thing of beauty. So, you know, that's the tone for a good portion of the first half. So I think that, you know, that's important. Goals, singular goals can really set the tone of what your team is capable of doing and what they should be doing. And everybody wants to look like that. So, and I, you know, I think coming from, coming behind that, Carly had so many key goals. Carly both had so many key goals. But we had goals from everybody. We had, you know, freshman scoring. We had sophomore scoring. So that's a lot of fun to see. And that really bodes well for us in the future, I think. All right. Let's talk about the negatives. Second half draw controls. And the clearing for the totality of the game. I would assume those are the two areas that really jump off of it. Absolutely. You know, we have had difficulty clearing this year and part of it is because our attackers are not working hard enough to get open and they're aware of this and we work on this. We actually started a drill that they hate called the castle and they'll be doing it every day until they can get to the point where they're comfortable cutting to the ball, shaking their defender and making a difference in the clear. We can't expect to beat great teams by having our defense carry the ball. Our four defenders carry the ball up time after time after time. Our midfield's not getting the ball in transition. Our attackers aren't getting the ball in transition and that has to change. So yes, absolutely going to work on that. You know, as far as the draw control goes, you know, I thought we had some unlucky breaks in that. I thought sometimes we were first to touch the ball and not necessarily the team that came up with it. But then even after that occurred, I thought we kind of settled in and played, you know, we had some good cause turnovers down the other side, even though they got a lot of the draws at the end. We need a drawler that can put it where she intends to. We have a lot of drawlers who can win it to our offensive side, but sometimes another team's outside girl is better towards our offensive side than our outside circle girl. So we need a draw person who can put it defensive, who can put it down the line, who can put it straight up on a more regular basis. And we're still trying to figure out who that is. You know, when you have so many young players, it's really hard to figure out who that player is. Is it one player? Is it one player is really good at one thing and maybe not another? So, so we're getting there. It's early. Yes. We take a lot of stats on that. So I got my reading cut out for me tonight. Yes. But another positive to this game is Mac Ferguson. Yeah. She comes up big when Mac Ferguson needs to come up. She does. She does. You know, she likes to play in close. Yeah. And the closer in it gets and the closer the game gets, the more that she steps up. If we can get Mac to make the first save of the game, I almost feel like I know we're going to win. Yeah. If she can make that first shot that was taken and have eyes on it, like I just relax at that point. So that's always wonderful. Today she had difficulty tracking in the beginning of the game. You know, and sometimes with the afternoon games, even though this is our home field, there's some sun difficulties in this on this field. So we did not end up on the great side of things for some of that. But you know, I thought she had a good game today. Absolutely had a good game today. And every, you know, I think all of our players, you know, we have Amanda Budke, a freshman who never started for. She had some key ground balls and she had some key sliding moves. I thought she did a really great job today. So we're happy that we are starting to get a little depth with some of our younger players. She's good. She's good. I promised that I would ask this in the post game show so I can't chicken out now. All right. Near the end of the shot clock in the first half, there was a situation where you seem to run an isolation play for Carly cleared everybody out. Carly ran hard to a right and went and scored a couple next couple of possessions ended up being shot clock violations. And I said, MC, I'm a dumb guy. All right. I know nothing. Why wouldn't you just run the same play in those spots? So I'm going to be the dumb guy and ask the same thing. You're not the dumb guy. We try, you know, especially when you're up, we try not to be one dimensional. We're very aware that Carly can take a one on one if the matchup is good. And that's a great thing to have. But the more we do it, the more they're ready to go. So executing our plays as called and utilizing every second of the clock while we're up and leading the game was key. However, what that ended up doing, and here's why you're you're you are a smart person, is I think it really kind of got our defense kind of cold. And all that whole playing attack, the midfield got a little bit more tired than we were used to. But one of our focuses coming into this game was to control the clock. We weren't going to shoot in the first couple seconds. We unless we were open enough to do it. And you know what? Carly is an amazing athlete, but even she can't run the goal 52 times again and play defense and take the draw. So she sometimes gets to have a rest on the attack. Fair enough. Fair enough. I feel now I'm smarter. You see how that worked out? It's going to be a little while before we see you next. Yes, it is. Enjoy the trip. Now until 2019, I think. No more home games. The good news is you got to win. You got to win. You're in the win column. Coach always appreciate it. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you. She is coach Kathy Rayleigh.