 Hello and welcome to the Dave Gaines show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce showing my students the baseball coach Dave Gaines and coach Right in the thick of it. You're right about right about the halfway point of the conference season I five of four overall in conference talk about how your first three series of not overall Yeah, it's been a it's been a great half of the season so far up and down a little bit, but Overall, you know, every game has been close eight of our nine games been within three runs The other game was a four-run game that we won So everything as we talked about in our preseason show is is everything's gonna come down to one or two plays and we just got to clean a couple things up in our practices to make sure that we're doing it on a consistent basis and You know, we can finish off the the back end of the conference play pretty well Yeah, most recent conference series this past weekend. You played Widener a first game with 14 innings had to Stop and resume Saturdays actually finishing three games on Saturday You're able to win that first game and unfortunately have leads in the last two games were able and the wideers They'll come back and win both of those so huge win on on the Friday game You know James was in C came in to close it out bullpen did a great job Sam downs There's a tremendous job in the middle there Jake vanco great jobs that K in the first inning It's tough in a start when you're starting in a game in the 14th They're 13th inning right to go out there and do a good job and he did that our hitters kept Grinding away and we were down five nothing in that game so to come back just a really good win Second two games look Widener is a really good team. There's a reason that they've been in the conference tournament every single year since Since their coach has been there I think and in a team that's going to be in the thick of things again this year So like I said, we just got to clean some things up that we didn't do too well on Saturday in those last two games especially late in the game and You know, I think we'll be okay. We got a big weekend this weekend against Arcadia. Yeah, absolutely Like you said he came back from five nothing about wider game You know one of your games with hood you're down five nothing came back within five four So this team seems to you know, they're down three four five runs doesn't seem to get down hang its head It goes on keeps competing starts with a leadership and we have tremendous seniors who? Who compete and make our guys compete and understand the importance of winning and the importance of every single play? And we're never out of a game We truly believe that as a group that no matter what we can we can come back and we score five In any inning or we can score two here or two there and we believe in our pitching staff to continue to hold teams to zeros and Give our offense a chance to win. Yeah, absolutely Then you know yesterday on Sunday we played non-conference double-header against Washington when I had a pleasure of calling on Sunday afternoon and You know two tough competitive games with a team that's you know having a pretty good season And the first game you fell but second game you're able to come back again from a three nothing deficit Again a very well coached team coach Bedeck does a great job of Washington College No surprise that you know that they're having the success that they're having over there Team that's receiving votes nationally. So beat number four Swarthmore on Saturday has beat Salisbury earlier in the year So a quality win for us in the second game. But again, as you said we battled back I thought the first game we played really clean defense didn't swing it. Well, but made tremendous adjustments in that second game I think we had 12 hits And again kept battling until the last out and we make sure that they have to earn all their outs Yeah, and like you said taking advantage of those opportunities and those teams make mistakes You know Washington had a late error that you have a capitalized on and the led to the winning run for sure And our guys ran hard, you know, I think that's it when you run hard you you make defense make plays and Just trying to create havoc on the base path is something that we always try to do in our program Yeah, absolutely. All right coach. Well, obviously got them, you know get four conference series left You know wish you best of luck in those and it was all the rest of your games and I will chat again soon Thanks, Greg. All right for Dave Gage. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Gage show