 Welcome to Mustang Sports On Demand. I'm Paul Taylor joined by women's soccer head coach Graham Millar as the Mustangs defeat Weidner 2-0 here Saturday evening at Mustang Stadium. And coach, you got a big goal from Kellan Whitman who really has had an outstanding sophomore year for you guys. Yeah, she's continued where she left off from last year, you know. You know, really good freshman year and, you know, especially somebody that plays two sports and, you know, really works hard at both sports to be good. She's kept us in games and scored some crucial goals. And today, you know, to get us on the board and that first half when I was pretty tight, you know, it was a great, great finish and I really settled settled the team. A lot of sports, they don't necessarily keep time of possession, you know, not like football. But one thing you kind of indicative of that would be shots on goal. Weidner didn't have any. Yeah. Talk about your defense tonight. Yeah, I pray impressed with that, you know. The defense is, you know, can I commend her some heat, you know, early on the season, we had a lot of one-goal losses and actually eight one-goal losses. So, you know, the defense really had to work together on how they can make things better. And, you know, today was the perfect example of what we've put in over the last couple of weeks since we started the conference. And, you know, Emily Lisquadro and, you know, Sam Hooker leading the line at the back there in the middle have really done an outstanding job. And I think that's the first game in a long time where there's been no shots, especially against a team that's pretty decent like Weidner. So I'm proud of the defensive effort today. Now, you mentioned the eight straight losses in September. Those games, though, they kind of prepare you for October and that you face tougher opponents. So when you get into conference schedule, things go better and they have, to this point, four conference wins in a row. Yeah, that's what, you know, that's what we do. We, you know, we have two ways to make the NCAA tournament, which is win our conference and beat, you know, teams like Weidner and the number one team in the country right now in Messiah. Or we win the games in September against really good teams. We're not going to, you know, get an at-large bid if we're playing teams that, you know, we can be easily. So my always, always my plan is we're going to play the best teams in the region. And, you know, some of those teams were nationally ranked like Johns Hopkins and Haverford. And we took them, you know, all the way. So these games have really prepared us the same way I did last year when we went to five and three in September to really now, you know, put that, put those mistakes behind us, put what we learned behind us and make a run at this conference title again. Can you point to one specific turning point this season and maybe now that's kind of fueled this run? Well, we did have an interesting team workout at six a.m. in the morning, a couple of weeks ago before our Johns Hopkins game. So I'll kind of leave it at that. It ended up, it was a six a.m. workout that worked out well for us. So and we've really, we've got, you know, morale boosting, you know, loss, I guess, against Hopkins. We lost an overtime, but from there, we really turned it around. So, you know, we changed some things up as well, formation wise. And, you know, the girls have bought into it, they're all in for this team and and for Stevenson. So, you know, I'm really proud of the way they've turned things around. Yeah, a short turnaround here. You got Hood coming up early this week, but then you have an eight day break. So what this is kind of a tale of two different weeks here for you guys. Yeah, you know, we got to take care of business on Tuesday, you know, who comes quickly, you know, we're playing on Tuesday. So not much of a rest. So the big thing is, is to go into that break four and oh, and you know, that's his halfway through the conference schedule. So if we can get this next win over hoods, then we have a break to recoup and be ready for the last four games of the season. So I think, you know, I think we're in need of a break and, you know, we just got to take care of business on Tuesday and not look too, too far forward to that break. All right, coach. Thanks so much for your time. Good luck on Tuesday and we'll talk to you in a few weeks. All right. Thanks, Paul. For Coach Grandma, our I'm Paul Taylor and this has been a Mustang sports network on demand powered by SFM sports.net.