 Hello and welcome to the Gary Stewart show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, joined by students at Headman's basketball coach Gary Stewart. The coach has been a little bit since we've chatted, but you guys are finally starting to get healthy, starting to get back to his full strength as you're going to be this season and the results are starting to show two big road wins last week. Yeah, we got Tosh Fleming back that was playing really well for us before the ankle injury, so it was good to have him back on Saturday. And previously we had Evan and Cam come back. So all three of those guys are real valuable to what we're trying to do. Yeah, absolutely. And obviously, you know, like we said, you know, go on the road in the match, you know, any road win in the match, certainly a big one. You go to Messiah, you pull out an overtime game where, you know, Messiah makes a couple comebacks, one at the end of regulation, then one in overtime. And then, you know, we were able to pull that game out and then at like home and you know, you were able to just get off to a strong start, shoot the ball well and had a pretty good victory on the road to complete the season sweep, something you hadn't done in several years. Well, we had a real competitive game as we always do with Messiah. And I thought they played really, really well. They were really prepared and they competed, like I said, really well. And we got up by several possessions late, but weren't able to close the door. And they forced overtime and then credit our guys. We got back to doing some things that got us the lead in regulation and thought we had enough separation and yet needed to make a free throw and got the better of a 65 footer that missed at the end to beat them and then played one of our better games all year at Lycoming. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously four games left the regular season. Do you kind of like the way this group's coming together and kind of improving as the season's gone along and you're playing your best basketball, you know, right at the right time? Well, obviously our best basketball is required at this time of year and it was good to see our guys execute on both ends of the floor consistently on Saturday at Lycoming. They're challenging, they run some good things and so they put us on our heels defensively the entire game and you have to play them collectively as a group defensively. You can't get out on an island. So we really were able to defend. Our help was there the entire contest and offensively the execution was there. And that's what's required and that's what's needed in this league as we go into Wednesday and Saturday you have to execute well in February or you're going to get beat. Yeah, absolutely. Like you said, four games left the regular season starting tomorrow night with a home game against Slummington Valley. You know, what are you looking to do is you get down to stretch and hopefully beyond and hopefully postseason play. Well, another difficult week for us. We host the defending conference champions and say tournament team tomorrow night and not one of the better coaches in our conference but one of the better coaches in all division three basketball and coach McAllister. He's got some talented kids and they're always really, really good offensively and present some challenges that way. And then as we move forward into the week we get the ECAC champions from last year in Weidner. So championship week for us in a big week and we've got to first have all of our energies on Levinon Valley and I'm excited to see if we can carry over some of the things that we did last week. They absolutely built some of that momentum. Like I said, you know, right now is a great time to be playing some of your best basketball and you hope that continues. Yeah, it's really fun to play meaningful games in February and from an athletic standpoint that's one of the reasons why our kids came to Stevenson was to play in meaningful contests, contests that have a lot of writing on it. And obviously every single game now has huge ramifications in relationship to standings and postseason tournament and the like. Yeah. All right, coach. Well, we wish you the best of luck starting Wednesday night and we'll chat again soon. Thank you, Greg. All right. For Coach Gary Stewart, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Gary Stewart Show.