 Hi everybody Jeff Hemmelt from SFM sports.net after the Stevenson women fight to a 1-1 tie against number one Messiah Here with Kaylee yaps and we'll start with coach Graham Miller coach What is in the water down there in the water fountain it last night the men come out with a scoreless tie against Messiah Your girls come out battle back to a 1-1 tie just an overall great effort from your squad today Yeah, you know, you know building on the guys game last night, you know We have good to soccer teams here that you know Coaches have been here for eight years players have been here like Kaylee for four years that have worked for nights like this You know, they've worked hard the sacrifice, you know, they've given up a lot of their free time and Not just during the season but in the offseason and you know, we've did a lot of video We've we've had adversity this year just like the guys have had adversity and and for both teams to come up against Two undefeated number one teams in the country and get ties and you know for us tonight You know I was shooting them and really giving Messiah go playing toe-to-toe with them I mean, I just speaks volumes for the players we have here The coaches we have here the staff we have here and and everybody associated with the Stevenson University, you know soccer programs Scoreless at the half. I guess your team talk was a pretty positive one at the half You did give up an early goal in the second half, but then a Lawrence five you go late in that second half equalized things up Was it a positive message at halftime? Certainly it seemed like it even though you want to go down Yeah, it was it was very positive the same as we started, you know, we told them about going out and having fun You know having no fear the first 15 minutes of each half was very important But we didn't do what we had to do but in the past you've seen our team You know the headstrap when that happens, you know, so you know that could have happened again But it didn't you know the fact is we gained, you know We've got a lot of momentum over the last two weeks as a family and as a team and you know You've seen the heads didn't go down. We kept going and a great run from Bella Casey was able to play that into Lorna. That's her first goal against Messiah and obviously, you know took us to the tie Just three goals allowed all season from Messiah That's an impressive stat and to get one against the number one team in the world that just speaks volumes. I think yeah Definitely, you know the fact that we've got a goal the fact that we you know I shot them the fact that we went total to with them We didn't sit back and we played our normal game that we would played over the last few weeks And and Messiah was probably thinking back to our game last year when we you know packed it in for the final But we told the girls look I have confidence I have faith in every one of them if we play our game our version of soccer then we can take them and We gave a good account of ourselves tonight and almost pulled off that victory. I asked coach Plovak this last night Obviously, this would be great motivation for the end of the season with this 1-1 result three of the last four games on the road You can obviously I'm sure take some great aspects from this game and put it along to the last four games of the season Yeah, you know, we're taking a one game at a time. We never looked ahead to Messiah You know, we took Arcadia, you know, we went we played hood. We did wider than Messiah every game We concentrate on we don't look forward to the next one We we take care of business each game and the next one's all bright So now we get ready for all bright We have a week to get ready a little bit less than a week But we don't have obviously have a weekend game So the plan is let's let's get ready for the next one Well coach it might not have been the best team in the world But it was certainly a worldly effort from you guys tonight. Congratulations. We'll take it as the best Congratulations on the 1-1 draw of great effort. Thanks again Kayley yaps joining me now and Kayley another great defensive effort from your squad again going down early in the second half Won nothing but again stepping up on the back line Tiffany McKee with some great saves Equalizing late in the game your overall impressions from this game tonight I am so beyond proud of my team right now Like I'm trying to hold myself like to not like screaming y'all because I had faith in us and I believed in us And this is just incredible because like you said, I've been here for four years I I've been with this team and we've worked so hard to get where we are right now And it's just an incredible feeling was it hard to control your emotions after you tied the game up There was still plenty of time to go and I know you guys were really bouncing up and down the sideline Was it kind of hard to keep ourselves in check and keep the flow going? Yeah, it was I mean, this is the first time we've ever actually scored against them So it was definitely hard to bring ourselves back down and like get focused again But I thought we did a great job to recuperate and like get ourselves back focused on that field and we took it Adam I thought I didn't think we held back four games to go in the season What's your strength? What's your focus going on here the final part of the season getting into the postseason? Um, I think right now we found our groove We've been struggling to kind of find it at the beginning of the season But I think tonight was it we found it We know what we need to do now and we just need to take it to the teams and show them who we are they Underestimate us and we're gonna take it to them now. Well again a great effort from your defensive line and the rest of the squad is Well, congratulations. Enjoy this and we'll see you back here next week Stevenson Kayla yaps and grandmiller joining me after the 1-1 tie against number one Messiah here at Mustang Stadium