 So for me as a sophomore this is my first time playing Salisbury so I personally never participated in like a rivalry this big. We obviously knew about it because just what everyone talks about Stevenson versus Salisbury you get it with volleyball across pretty much any sport. So we knew how big the rivalry was going in and there was definitely a ton of pressure because this was really our first competitive game that we actually I mean when you go into any game there's a chance you're gonna lose but this one especially we knew that it was gonna be tough it was probably gonna be our first five setter and that's exactly what it was. Definitely stressful I know for me personally like I try not to get super I feel like I'm very much like I mess up okay like it's fine let's get the next point and I feel like a lot of my teammates this season were like that which I was fortunate enough to share with them. But I think when it's that close like the smallest thing like if you miss your serve or if the ref makes one call that could have gone like a certain way. So it's definitely disappointing but it's also one of those mentalities where it's only the first set and you have a possibility of going to five so when we lost it was just sort of like all right look at how close that score was let's talk about what we did wrong and just kind of regroup and head into the second set stronger than we did the first like get all the jitters out play play for real this time. It definitely didn't deter from our momentum going into the second set it's totally different if you get like blown out the first set you definitely don't have you don't have the as much of a drive as you do if it's close and you lose so that's definitely getting as many points as we could have that first set was huge because it really did help us maintain a strong mentality going into the second set and then I think after winning that and coming off of playing well and you know a couple really good like kills from Katie LeFridge or Tor Prokik like you're just like really driven to get into like that third set then and I think that definitely carried our momentum whereas for them I don't think they use that first set win to as much of to their advantage as we did in the second going into the third set so yeah definitely like winning a previous set is huge like it definitely it makes it contributes a lot to how you're going to play the next the next three four or five sets uh I mean I know a big thing that the seniors this year a big statement that they always said was um just that we didn't especially when he ends like the fourth and fifth sets I think they were saying it in the game against Hopkins and in our first round of NCAAs we didn't fight so hard for this comeback to make it to the fifth set and lose like we leave it all out there um regardless of what the score is I try to like not pay attention to the score in those really high pressure especially the fifth sets um only because I don't I personally don't want to let the score stress me out more than I already am out there um but uh yeah definitely just trying to benefit as much as possible from all the hard work um that you're putting in in the previous four sets and just trying to uh regroup especially when we're down like you said like eight six uh right in the like smack middle of the set too um so just trying to change the momentum a bit in the middle of that set is huge for us and little statements like that um definitely help and I'm sure coach called um a time out and not only does that give him a chance to kind of help us regroup it gives us like the six of us on the court a time to just take a breather like get some water and then also just for us to talk in not so high pressure of a situation um we're sitting on the bench everything's calm and relaxed for that like quick minute and a half or however long we get um but it it just gives us a chance to really go over things uh a little more in detail that we might when we're on the court huddling after a point so definitely beneficial it was huge I mean that was definitely a big thing for us we wanted to keep our win streak alive for as long as possible we ended up making I mean we didn't lose until we played Hawkins in the middle of the season I'm not sure exactly what we were at but overall a super exciting game and I'm really I'm blessed and I feel very lucky that I was able to be a part of that game um and be out there with my teammates and have fun it was a lot of fun especially when you went