 Welcome back to the Graham Miller show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson then soccer head coach Graham Miller and coach when we talked in the preseason I asked you what you wanted to see from your team in the non-conference schedule before you got into conference play and the two Things that you mentioned is can we handle the pressure and could we play consistently for 90 minutes? So how would you rate your team so far? Yeah, I think pretty well over the over the course of the over the 10 games that we've played so far I would say that we definitely have been more consistent and played for longer spells in games We're not as young as what we were last year So with only one freshman one or two freshmen starting. There's been a lot more consistency in our performances and You know, we handle the pressure. I felt like we handle the pressure against Stevens Tech and an unbelievable game here against, you know, number 16 team in the country And then I thought we didn't handle the pressure against us at Mary's team that were very good on the road So there's still some things that we're working out. But overall Very pleased with the effort very pleased with the intensity Especially during this, you know, hot part of the season They've definitely did their job over the course of over the course of non-conference play Yeah, you have to be proud of your team for, you know The last week that you had four games in seven days you go unbeaten in that stretch But only not even a blemish, but it's a tie against Stevens Tech that you mentioned So, you know, talk about the resilience and of your team and maybe even the depth that you had And that was and that's what we talked about, you know, when I took over this program three years ago The plan was to get depth in every position competitiveness in every position be able to You know when when somebody goes down hurt this next guy up and ready to go and obviously because of the Delaware Valley game getting postponed and moved to the to the Monday, you know The four games in eight days that doesn't happen very often and And if we look at those games, you know, the the Stevens Tech game went to double overtime The Delaware Valley and Immaculata and Eastern games were all played in mid-afternoon Where temperatures were close to the 90s So definitely the guys really hung tough. We played a lot of guys And, you know, I'm just impressed by by the depth we have in the squad and and the level did not drop And sometimes that happens when you make subs or you make changes to your starting lineup We didn't have that drop and it was great to come through In the tough circumstances playing that many games in such a short amount of time to come away with, you know Unbeaten in four games is something pretty special You've had eight players find the back of the net 10 of 10 different players have a point Has anyone surprised you or, you know, really impressed you so far? Well, I think the big thing is The guys are the guys are learning from last year. So, you know, we've already had the the Dillon Holly's and the The Jace Smiths, the Tag Lees, the DR Medtars who continue to just, you know, get better every year And we've seen that in their performances The sophomores, I think have really learned a lot from their freshman year AJ Morales who has played a lot for us and didn't score his rookie season And he came up with a big goal against Stevens Tech He came up with the game winner against Eastern on Saturday You know, he's at three goals in a year and that's been huge for him We've had some other of those sophomores, Jason Cahan That have, you know, came into it Diego Who have really, you know, learned from the previous year and they're getting better and that's what we want We want to see that improvement Every year and then Chris Gonzalez the freshman Who's come in as a center back and really Looks like he's been, you know, been playing with us for three years I mean, he's been so so natural in there and he's really helped us out in that center back position with Dylan and Jevon So we have more depth there. So overall You know, the guys are getting better. That's all we need and the same goes for the goalkeeping with Listele Tano He's did it again and it's great to see him Continue what he left off from his rookie season Yeah, I was going to mention him. He already has four shutouts on the air another additional shared shutout Where I think he played 79 of those those minutes in that game So now we're kind of flipping the page like you start conference play on saturday So what are your expectations as you as you enter maccom a lot of play? Well, we know we can't surprise them like we did last year, you know, we were picked last year to finish seventh and Obviously made our way up to fourth and and gave the three top teams a real run for the money and the sign And the semifinal now it's a little different. We're picked to finish fourth And the playoffs and now more teams are going to be gunning for us The big thing is we've got to pick up the home results, you know, we have, you know, the four home games They're key I always say four or five games are going to get you in the playoffs four or five wins Are going to get you in the playoffs and then it's up to you how much extra you want to do and The goal would be to be in the top three You know, we're picked to finish fourth But the goal is top three because you do not want to play in that fourth fifth game And then turn around two days later and play the number one team on the road So that's our goal our goals to be top three in the conference Feeling that we can do that especially with the players we've got we continue to stay healthy We continue to improve they continue to buy in and You know, let us say the distractions will be will be good for that Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck moving forward and we'll see you back here soon. I appreciate it. Thanks for head coach Graham Miller. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Graham Miller show