 and welcome into the coaches corner. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with field hockey head coach Laurel Martin and coach last week you guys go over to McDaniel not too far from us and pick up a three-to-one victory. Yeah that was an exciting game for us and you could feel the energy on the bus ride over there there the girls were were up and and they were feeling positive and went into the game and we secured a strong win which was was very nice for and then five two against Alvernon Saturday Blair picking up two defensive saves she's got five on the season previously three on the career right so she's having a pretty good season defensively and you know you give up five goals but the defense held strong with 29 corner opportunities for yeah yeah I know absolutely I mean Blair is a steadfast back there and she continues to do nice things she's in the right spot at the right time and she definitely is the the main communicator in the backfield so she's doing some wonderful things for us for senior season and then our defensive penalty corner unit including a freshman goalie and multiple underclassmen that are in the mix there are stopping a significant amount of attack penalty corners against us so we feel as if we're very well practiced in that area but we're rejecting some some strong opponents with them with our defense penalty corner unit so I'm pleased with that as well and you mentioned the unit being young that leads to optimism for seasons in the future and the rest of this season as well talking about the rest of the season we got hood on Wednesday at four o'clock at home and then senior night on Saturday the 22nd yeah so we're excited so hood will be a good opportunity for us to gain some momentum and to gain some confidence and to play hard and to play with freedom and some risk and going into the Saturday weekend it's a big weekend for us obviously it's homecoming it's our think pink game and as a breast cancer survivor that that's special to me and I also think that we've got homecoming we got think pink and we have recruits coming on and we I mean it's all all of it senior night we're recognizing our four seniors so we're going to be having a very busy and exciting day when we play wider on Saturday a lot of buzz going on on campus that day and when wide there's a strong team so there and as and as are we although the record doesn't necessarily show it so I anticipate a very good field hockey game that day as well well coach good luck with hood at four on Wednesday and then wider and all that buzz on Saturday yeah thank you she's Laura Martin I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the coaches corner