 Welcome back to the Kathy Rayleigh show presented by Buffalo Wildwings I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson women's lacrosse head coach Kathy Rayleigh and coach Face top seated 12th ranked messiah in the semifinals last week fifth straight air that you've seen them in the conference tournament Was close at halftime and then they kind of pulled away in the second half there Yeah, I'm getting kind of tired of messiah ending our season So we're gonna work really hard to make sure that doesn't happen again You know we played a great first half a lot of our shots didn't go our goalie made quise Their goalie made key saves our defense had great takeaways their defense had great take takeaways It was definitely a four to three game halfway in But then we really started to see the effects of having to play Saturday before and the Monday before so Anyone who plays in that play-in game on Monday? It makes it really tough to turn around on Wednesday and and play at that high level again Typically a coach wants a good solid-day arrest and maybe film review And then execution of what your game plan is we were not able to do that with messiah We had to utilize a day arrest because we had to be ready Somewhat legs on Wednesday, and you know, you know messiah didn't play on Saturday They didn't play on Monday and that really showed in the second half, you know with the heat being what it was I think that we will have a great solution to that With trying to increase our roster size next year Yeah, talking about that you only lose four this year a big hole in the defensive side with Jane Sheerings in the top ten in three different categories I think she ranks second and in calls turnovers. So talk about that How do you kind of like flip the page there and and get past messiah next year? Well, you know one of the greatest things I think about this year and one of the things that really made me the happiest if if you look at the Mac commonwealth stats and you look at who the top five people were and calls turnovers and in the Mac You're gonna see Jamie Bettner Sarah Rorty Gabby DeGello. So out of the top five we have three we represent three of the top five Nobody else has dual or two people and I think even in the top ten of a lot of those defensive stats So I feel very very good about the fact that not only Well, we have great players that are returning back on that defense But when there is a void of a leader of a captain Of somebody who just plays hard day in and day out with the kind of confidence that Jamie had I feel like when there's that void another player that we currently have will get exceptionally better to fill those shoes And I you know of all the teams in the Mac I think we have the most likely one or ones I should say to fill those shoes And then hopefully, you know, maybe have some younger players develop over the summer or have a freshman come in and Steal a spot maybe I don't see our defense our intensity and defense. I see it only improving and and that's due to you know A lot of Jamie's leadership and and I think a lot of the hard work of the girls around her. Yeah Well coach, thank you for taking time every week and sitting here and talking to me And wish you the best of luck with recruiting this summer and we'll see you back here next year Come back with a good tan and hopefully a lot of recruits. Here we go. Good. Thanks for coach Kathy Rayleigh I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Kathy Rayleigh show