 Hello and welcome into the Julia Colada show. I'm Joe Wombo join out Julia Colada head coach of the softball team and Coach you guys went down to Florida got to open up the season down in sunny, Florida for you playing six games And you come back with a three-and-three record Gold number one kind of ready for you right there. Yeah be 500 And I think we definitely started off well. We were in every game that we played I don't think we lost by more than three runs and I know that that's not something you necessarily come out of Being happy about but we always got the tying run to the plate, which is crucial, especially when we played a lot of Games as the away team. So I think you know, we started off a little Maybe nervous and tense and we ended really strong with two strong wins on our last day and a win right before that Yeah, getting the tying run at least to the plate gives you a chance Yeah, you're in the game at that point. Oh 100% and you know, that's something we didn't do It's really easy to lie down and we didn't we battled to the end We had you know, a great offensive week and our pitching really did pick up Especially in the later games. What is a trip like this do in terms of team? Cohesiveness, you know learning each other and then them also learning you yeah, it was great You know, we were able to have everyone wake up eat breakfast together Kind of spend a day as they would on campus We were in townhomes and then we got to spend team meals together, you know going to the field Sometimes we were rushed in warm-ups and just seeing how people are reacting to different situations And we had some crazy stuff happen a couple of our games and it did not We did not falter at all. We reacted really well. We responded very maturely, which was great having that experience You know, sometimes you get into a situation where it's show-and-go, you know a short time on in warm-ups So that's definitely gonna be important for you. Yeah We had a couple games where we played back-to-back or a couple games where they wanted to start games a lot earlier And we were a little rushed but um, we got in our work and we were able to start very composed and deal with that adversity Now speaking of adversity you guys are coming back home playing that home this week home openers What did that trip do for you guys in preparing you for the conference schedule? That's kicking up the later this week. Yeah, we played a lot of different teams teams that are from out west and more like mid-midwest I mean and north and teams that it ranked differently in their conference themselves, so we played a backer team that's picked to Repeat their conference championship and that was really important. We lost by two runs But I think that really showed the girls that you know You can we can compete with anybody if we bring our best game and we closed out against a good Fitchburg team as well So just it gave us a lot of confidence and we were able to work through some things. We need to work on And we took a lot away from this weekend As we get ready for the home games on against Gettysburg and then Arcadia on Saturday What are those things that you need to correct or have you had time to work on things to get the W's you're looking for this Yeah, I mean we came back to snow So it's been a little difficult to work on some of our fielding situations and errors that we had in Florida Because we haven't touched the dirt yet, but something we do need to clean up is defense and we did play on very very very hard fields so some hits got through and some bounces were a little sketchy, but Just committing fully committing to going after balls getting dirty I think is something we definitely need to work on well coach We wish you the best of luck this week and hosting your first home games. Thank you very much. She's Julia Colada I'm Joe Wamba. This has been the Julia Colada show