 Hello and welcome to the Laurel Martin Show presented by Buffalo Wildlands. I'm Greg Royce showing by Stevenson Field Hockey Head Coach Laurel Martin. The coach kind of went up and down starting this season, but overall some of the positives it can take away from the first seven games. I mean, I think we're really learning and growing substantially as a team. And, you know, we have about another two weeks to completely figure it out before conference games start. And I'm just, I'm pleased with the progress. And I'm just hoping that we can continue to grow. Yeah, talk about, you know, obviously the offense is maybe not what you'd like, so I saw a couple of games with the defensive effort that you've been able to put out in a lot of your games, especially in Cades with Kelsey. The defensive efforts were pretty strong overall, so talk a little bit about that, you know. Yeah, I mean, Kelsey's been doing some really good things. Coming into her senior year, she's very confident and she's making some great saves. We also have a strong returning defending unit with Jordan and Ashley Gladfelder. And then we have some, you know, new starters basically on the outside of the field as well. But collectively, we're doing some very strong things defensively. Yeah, and you said offensively, you know, you've got some contributions from some different people. Obviously, you lost a lot of offense from last year, but, you know, they're starting to figure it out. I think it's starting to be a little more confident to figure things out. Yeah, I mean, we've adjusted some positioning just to work on the strengths of individuals, and we've really only had one game to practice it with. So I think we're figuring it out and we need to focus in on finishing with our specialties as well with our attack penalty corner unit. I think we can do that. We've got some strong hitters on the edge that can finish. We just need to practice it more and get more sound in that arena. And then, you know, schedule coming up. You've got a tough one tonight. You're at Roan, you know, second-ranked team in the country. Right. You play setting area at home on Saturday. And then conference play starts next week. So talk a little bit about the next couple of games, and then kind of mindset going to conference play, which starts like Saturday. Well, I mean, I think with Roan, this will be another opportunity similar to the Salisbury game, where we can definitely fine-tune our defense and make sure we are absolutely solid and then work it into the midfield and hopefully create some forward scenarios where we can do some breakaways and get some goals as well. So there's absolutely no pressure going into Roan. They can only help us get stronger and better. And then we've got, I apologize if I'm pronouncing this wrong, but Centenary on Saturday. And that'll be a good bounce-back game where we can absolutely focus on a full-field game and getting more aggressive on the attack field. So it's going into Lynchburg then. Lynchburg is a 50-50 game. So I kind of have all three in the match. Yeah. And then definitely when we hit Arcadia, we should be, at that point, stage-primed for conference play and exactly know where we stand. Yeah. And like you said, you know, we talked a little bit about pre-game, and before we came on, is that the conference is a little bit more wide-open than maybe some of the past, and probably there's some opportunity then. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, following the conference games, there's some teams that are similar to us that are having some, you know, vulnerable, but they're having some good games as well. And then, of course, the top Nemesis Messiah is not as dominant as they've been in years past. So that gives all the rest of us some hope. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Coach, we wish you the best of luck next several games, and we'll be in the thick of conference play next time we check. Perfect, thank you. All right, for Laurel Martin, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Laurel Martin Show. Thank you.