 Hello and welcome to the coaches corner. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Dave Trumbo head coach of the women's volleyball team and coach You round out the regular season last week Defeat over alvernia gives you 40 matches it's straight wins over Mack commonwealth opponents and then you turn around and beat a really quality team in Johns Hopkins on Thursday last week No, Joe that alvernia game was that was something I mean every time you go in the road You never know and you know the the Alvernia played really well And it's always I say it's a band omen if you really go out and play well in that first set And just absolutely demolish the other team which we did it was like 25 13 because I think psychologically We let down a little bit unconsciously won't do it on purpose and the other teams who are like They're not nervous anymore. Well, they just killed us. What do we have to lose kind of attitude? They come back and to tell you the truth. We were lucky to win the second set Lauren. We ever got a solo block And we won 26-24 And we're going, okay, you know, we'll finish this in three and alvernia plays out of their minds I mean they just played tremendous defense there and they were broadcast They were streaming the game live and they had some of their account Look at their men's volleyball team broadcasting it. Oh, and they were going crazy According to people that heard it. You can I've never seen alvernia play like this This is the best I've ever played it. I've never seen him do this and you know, we just basically kept hitting kids You know, and they play just tremendous defense and they beat us Mm-hmm, and they carried that right over the four set and we're losing seven one look at ourselves at a time I'm going. Oh my gosh Thankfully we called him out about 16 and then Jang Christensen served eight straight, you know, she got him a little bit out of system I think about four or five of those points were blocks Mm-hmm, and we finished him up. It didn't look like it was a very close game at 25 17 But it was where it was and we came out of there with a 3-1 win And the momentum that you got out of that game goes right into the Hopkins game And you guys are able to get another solid victory to finish the regular season Well, it's nice to beat the hunter instead of the hunted, you know we've been coming into a lot of games and we're favored we're supposed to win in the and And Hopkins came in number six in our region. We were number nine We're on their court We saw what they've done against the number four team in the country You know how well they've competed with eastern and other schools and we're going this is going to be a great game Great tune-up we've both won our conference championships already. We're both going to You know if we win in the semifinals we're both going to host the championship So Tim called the Hopkins coach. We thought this is a great tune-up for NCAA and you know and conference tournament time And it really was they are very very aggressive With their serve and they run the quickest offense. We've ever played against to tell you the truth, but Couple of the things that we worked on the new things that they were going to do We're able to get some key blocks and I think we played probably one of our best matches of the year And you talk about the games being a tune-up But there it was a great opportunity to you know face some adversity in the alvernia game And then face a really good opponent in the hopkins game preparing you for this week ahead and hopefully Another week ahead as well. Well We faced tremendous adversity in Lebanon Valley the week before and then here we are against alvernia again Hopkins, uh, we we just really played well. I felt like we played we served very well We passed well our offense ran you know ran pretty smoothly So that was a good game to end on but it just says to our players anything can happen You have to be fired up and then we play the winner of like homing and widener who played a night Whoever comes into our gym anything can happen. Um, so It's nice to learn lessons and win at the same time. Yeah And I have to take that L But um, so we have to be ready to not only match But exceed the intensity of the other team And let's talk a little bit about this street too because you know a numbers guy I am Uh, 40 straight wins or 41. They're calling it straight wins in the mac commonwealth regular season Going for the fifth straight conference championship Hosted them all too What is it that you're looking for in these games? As far as momentum bringing in a big crowd and getting things rolling right off the bat Well, what I told our players, you know was This was an incredible achievement to do this for five years first off to win the regular season None of them they were all seniors in high school. Our seniors were seniors in high school So we have a completely different group of kids All the other teams have a completely different group of kids And as you can see anything can happen on any given night and to do that over five years is an incredible achievement That being said then moving into I don't know so much that there's really the momentum Going in because Say for instance that we were able to win on wednesday Then we have to wait all the way to saturday play five o'clock. We're waiting till after the football game ends So we hopefully get a huge crowd because I know Whoever our opponent is like last year it was messiah They they really traveled well and they brought a huge crowd that's close to a thousand people there So it was a great environment for a championship match I'm not so sure the momentum carries over I know that the confidence part carries over But I mean you can get yourself all fired up and dug on if if you miss your first two serfs Right, and then all of a sudden all that air comes out of the balloon. Yeah, so I think the confidence and being there before Has a lot to do with how well you play and knowing how well you have to play to win The a lot of the girls watched or um her you know how well messiah did over the weekend beating christopher newport Um and then turned around and lost to mary now Yeah, so you know there's a lot of really good teams out there and anything can happen Well coach, we hope the positive thing happens for us next week or this week wednesday and saturday and uh Good luck with the keeping focused and you know resetting those batteries and getting ready for wednesday Well, they'll be ready. They will be ready. He's dav trombo. I'm joe wam and this has been the coach's corner Thank you