 Welcome to Go Mustang Sports. I'm Dave McHugh joined by field hockey coach Laurel Martin and coach the home season is now over you got one game left in the season and first and foremost you congratulate you winning a field hockey program in Stephenson history now getting the getting that record taken care of I know that was the goal of the season. So you got that now under your belt you got one game left in the season still don't even know what the future holds right it could be conference playoffs it could be ECACs it's kind of a little bit of a wait-and-see type situation you guys have going on yeah we're we're in a tricky situation first of all just a comment on the the winningest season ever for Stephenson I mean that's that's an exciting thing for Stephenson field hockey we're continuing to build and create more and more wins and we're not you know we're not going to stop so it's just building from here getting good athletes in and and building the program just hopefully continuing to climb that ladder well I'm certainly applying the last few years yeah yeah we've gotten better every year so that's good yeah so at this point stage yeah we have hood tomorrow and we're hoping to secure a very strong game against them and then we're on hold so we kind of had to buy week yeah so we have to wait and see what's gonna play out with our conference and then we have to wait see you know what will happen potentially for ECAC if the NCAA tournament doesn't work out if we don't make conferences we do make conference so we've got a couple of weeks in lingo of course it's your one last spot in the conference to play for you're not playing for a four-five game you're really playing for the top four you're right there in the mix a win over hood obviously is needed need some help outside that won't get into all the particulars but clearly just get the job done that you need to get done and let everything else fall on its way yeah at this point stage that's all we have left is we have hood that's our only definite so we handle hood and we play well and we play with passion and we play our style and then we'll see where the cars fall previous game was Lebanon Valley no one didn't go the way you guys wanted it to obviously big two nothing lead at halftime tough Lebanon Valley good team comes back on you ends up winning with just seconds left three to to then rally and then win your game on Saturday probably at least is a good thing that tells you your team can forget the tough stuff if they have to and focus on the next thing in line yeah I mean us coming back and playing homecoming day we had a lot of alumni on campus we had a lot of recruits on campus senior night on top of that senior night we had the campus was just flowing football game soccer game at lots of activities and to be able to come out and focus and secure a 5-0 win against an Albright team who's not doing very well if you look at them with their win-loss record but they're a good squad so they're a little bit underrated their caliber of play are stronger than what it's well there yeah they're the win-loss doesn't look that great but their conference record was kind of was the opposite of that pretty good job in conference this conference has been tough Lebanon Valley has been up there messiahs up there you guys have played well Bernie has been playing well Arcadia has certainly been playing well this season this has been was this is big a toughest battle in the conference as you expected or maybe tougher I think last year's was a battle just as similar as this year's yeah this year's team I think specifically for us I think that we didn't perform as well consistently as we could have so last year there was a little bit more of consistency with maybe a little bit more of a less talented squad so this year I was a little bit upset with our inability to perform consistently sure if we would have we would be in a different spot right now consistency is the one thing you hear from coaches all the time that's what they always want that's what they always preach for speaking consistency though you've got a player on this team who's insistently breaking records yes Gaitland Dempsey we know going in we haven't talked a lot about her because really her games have spoken for herself but she now breaks her own record in scoring in a season that she had set last last year she's broken a few more she's on the verge of breaking a couple more this she has really been everything that this field hockey team has been about yeah I mean Katelyn Dempsey Allison Cagle and there's just a core of girls there on the forward line that really work well together and that are creating and breaking records the thing that neat about Dempsey is only had her for three years and had her for three years I really wish I would have had her for four look at maybe what we could have done with all of that but um you know she's setting records and I'm recruiting kids to come in and break those records and that's what building a program is all about she's a great kid hard working kid Cagle setting her up she's setting cakes up those two work well together on the forward line graduating both of them so we need we need some big shoes what's interesting is everyone knows her talent everybody you play against is targeting her and I remember we talked to the beginning of the year about how she was being double teamed and I everybody else had to step up it looks like everybody else stepped up she has now gotten open and now she's back to her not that she was ever away from her scoring abilities but defenses have left her open now a little bit more often yeah I mean it's every every team that we play has a different style and a different approach so some teams just mark her and double team are they front or they back everything they're all around her she's swarmed but then she just lays off the assists on the verge of breaking that she's on the verge of breaking the assist record so she can handle it yeah and we just and we have the players around to kind of to take up the space if she's if she's covered strongly but I think she prefers if they're back off of sure it's always nicer remember the overtime goal she had last time she liked the fact that there was no defense next door so what do you do with this team you've got a game on Tuesday right you then don't necessarily have a game until at least Wednesday of the following week in the conference playoff should you make it and then if you don't you're still kind of want to be prepared for easy ACs how do you keep this team kind of moving forward but not knowing where they're moving forward to yeah it's it's a challenging situation to be in so we're gonna handle hood and then after the conclusion of hood we'll see where we fall within the conference and if we've got a conference game we'll know who we're gonna play and then we're full charging a hundred percent ahead the following day to prepare for them if we don't make the conference playoffs then at that point stage we will continue to practice because we've got the potential for an easy AC and there's always an opportunity to gain and grow and if we have practice times we're gonna use them might as well it helps to the underclassmen to prepare for the next season as well right well it's certainly been exciting to watch this team 11 wins on the season so far and counting and counting we're not done with the wind total just yet we know that good luck against hood obviously good luck hopefully you'll make the playoffs hopefully in a week we are talking about playoff hockey here at Stephenson thanks for joining me appreciate it and we'll talk to you next week hey thank you is Laurel Martin I'm Dave McHugh will catch up with the team next week here on Gomez thanks sports