 Hello and welcome to the Jason Tawny show. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Jason Tawny head coach of the baseball team and coach You guys round out the regular season with a couple of losses against messiah But put a hurt on frostberg state there talk a little bit about the offensive effort that you saw at frostberg state Yeah, frostberg. We came out from pitch one really we start the game off with a triple and End up putting up 21 runs when it was all said and done and a couple guys You know Kevin copis his last game as a senior had six RBI's ended up just one RBI short of the of the school record for single season I think he had four hits. I think Billy small had five hits including a home run into the wind to right field I'm not sure that balls landed yet Yeah, we had a lot of guys. It just had offensive explosions. It was a lot of it was a lot of fun It was it was it was my kind of game a lot of offense Definitely is your kind of game and something that you've been preaching to all season long is you got a strong hitting team and It came through fruition just a little bit too late. Yeah, it did, you know the the messiah series we we actually hit the ball fairly well in that series as well, but You know that our Achilles heel this year has been pitching and then it it's definitely caught up with us But but yeah, we hit the ball, you know for the last couple of weeks actually fairly well You know going back even the week earlier against Alvernia. We scored quite a few runs against them But you know hitting comes and goes it was definitely there on Tuesday You talk about it all season long as well as you know, the team is pretty young especially in the bullpen and on the starting bump But talk a little bit about how excited as we are for years to come here Yeah, we knew coming into this year That we were gonna have a really young team, you know the catch with this is we have very high expectations in program We always have and we hold our guys to a higher standard We play a nationally ranked schedule, you know There's some other teams whether it be in our conference or other conferences that you know, they'll play they'll play some pretty pretty weak schedule So we always play a really good schedule With that being said with the young team we ran to some bumps in the road and Honestly as we look back and assess the season We're not that surprised. We just can't have high expectations, you know The entire team the entire starting nine on the field You know including our DH only had two seniors, you know our top three starting pitchers Are either sophomores or freshmen our top two guys out of the bullpen or junior and a freshman, you know So we have a very very young team next year. We expect a lot out of these guys and we're expecting to take that step forward We have a larger senior class You know and quite a few starters from that from that class So we expect a lot more out of the guys next year, but but yeah, this was this was a year where we knew it was Rebuilding we knew we knew that but again, it doesn't mean we didn't think we should have finished in the top four and gone The conference tournament right and as the rebuilding years coming you learn a lot about Just playing the college brand of ball, you know, that was one thing that freshmen always need to learn is You know pitching locations and Fielding locations being in the right spot at the right time and it's not just that It's also the offseason It's also being strong enough to make it through a season We had a conversation with one of our freshman pitchers this year And we're talking about how you've never thrown this many innings in this period of time And in his comment was I've thrown over a hundred innings and you know in a summer before and like that's fine But you're gonna throw 60 to 70 innings in two months And that's the difference and so it's about keeping yourself strong throughout the season as well So next year coming back with these freshmen that were such important parts of our team this year They'll have time in the weight room. They'll be working with coach Q and getting stronger You know, hopefully they're listening to some of our nutritional diets that we're trying to get them on In that way next year when we get into the spring They'll not only start strong, but they can stay strong and then finish strong and that's that's the key Well, hopefully they'll be able to take care of the business in the offseason And we'll have a really strong season and seasons to come with the youth of the program I think so I think so I think the the future is bright and also knowing the recruiting class coming in the future It's definitely bright. Well coach, I appreciate your time every week and all the times and knowledge you've spent on me Appreciate it. You're welcome. He's Jason Taney. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Jason Taney show