 Andy Mendoza here with Stevenson head coach Dominic Dawes and coach first congratulations on the conference championship What does this win mean and what does this championship mean for the program? I think it's huge I mean it's our first opera the first time we've ever played for a championship And I mean I all we've talked about here more of those and more than hockey is Mindset in learning how to learning how to win and I think you know tonight. There was highs. There was lows You know everything didn't go our way. We weren't perfect all the time But we stayed the course guys stayed with it We battled through some adversity and we we found a way to win and if we're gonna win down the stretch You know, that's what that's what good teams find do they find a way to win absolutely and coming into the third period Obviously you guys were gonna be down a man and you guys ended up going down two men there early in the third period What did you tell your guys after you went down 3-2 that really it seemed to light a fire under their butt for lack of a Better terms and I mean it was unbelievable the hits by Brenda the goal obviously by Penelope or what did you tell your guys when they went down 3-2? I mean you really have to say anything I mean they they knew I mean that there's a lot at stake tonight, right? They wanted to be the first guys to win the Mac championship And they needed a goal to take it back in the game So I think you know have killing off the penalty or the then getting down five on three and having them score and Killing the rest of it off was was big. I think that gave us a little bit of a momentum left You know only losing one goal there and No, we battle back and then you know that's the way hockey goes as it starts to turn around you get the calls The other way and you know we were fortunate to capitalize on our opportunity as well We all we obviously know Dominic Brenda as a goal scorer an assist man You know a point score. What are those two big hits in the third period do that kind of lifted the team up? Those were huge and they both happened right in front of the bench. It's huge I don't think we've done a lot. We haven't played as hard as we we can this year I thought last year we played a lot harder and that's one thing we've talked a lot about is we need to be more physical we need to Finish checks and and be a hard team to play against and you know the way he's playing offensively if he Adds the grind part to his game. He's gonna be an elite player. Thanks so much for the time coach. Congrats again on the Mac championship For more Mustangs athletics go to go mustang sports comm