 Welcome back to the All Dispersons show presented by Buffalo Wildwings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Steven Simmons volleyball head coach All Dispersons and coach first of all congratulations on the inaugural Mac title. Two sweeps last week over Alvernia in the semifinals at home on Wednesday and then another three game sweep over Arcadia in the championship. Just talk about your team's performance in those two games to take that title. Well I think the pressure was on the first one with Alvernia because you know that's the semifinal to get to the final and Alvernia is a tough team and they you know they fought hard and our guys played really well and took them out and then so then I guess some of the pressure was for the final but then again we were going in undefeated we had beaten Arcadia twice and and they have a really nice team too and and they were really up you know up trying to upset us and but the guys played in particular I think Jason Gardner played really well and but it was tight even though we won three-zero it was like the third set we were down one-six and our guys really fought hard and and swept them. Yeah talking about Jason Gardner he was named the tournament MVP for someone like Jason who wasn't on first team all conference he was a second team all conference member you know maybe a little overshadowed by something like landing shorts on his own. Do you talk about Jason and his performance and what he's contributed all year? Well Jason's one of the co-captains so he's got leadership capability both on and off the court he's a great student he's a little quieter he doesn't stick out like some of the other loud mouths it's great to be you know some of the guys are just naturally louder and and and I was really happy for Jason he got you know overlooked a little bit for that first team all conference but I think you know he in his eyes you know he has a bigger picture of advancing here in Nancy double A's and he could get some recognition nationally if we play well as a team so he's got a really great arm swing and the other thing about Jason he hasn't been afraid afraid it's not the right word but he's been so flexible with all the injuries we've had he's played left he's played opposite he's played middle so he's just an all-around nice volleyball player. You hinted at the NCAA tournament winning the Mac you get that automatic bid to the tournaments the second second appearance for for Stevenson in program history you face Elms on on Friday Friday night at Stevens have you had a chance to kind of scout Elms and yeah make a game plan for that yeah yeah we share video all the the teams that made it there's a poll there of video to look at and Elms played great against Endicott and it was similar Endicott had won their conference hadn't dropped the match beaten Elms twice I felt horrible for the Endicott guys but Elms just took it to him they won 3-0 and and you got the automatic bid and I'm not sure quite how the NCAA decides but you know who plays who but I think it'll be a great matchup because they're similar to us in that they have two setters you know one plays in the front row one plays in the back row they have some great arms so it's gonna be a real battle and but our guys are really looking forward to it. You have a handful of guys who who obviously been there two years ago is when they last went how do you prepare for for such a big match. I want to make sure that they're well rested so we're kind of tapering we had a tough practice last night which was Tuesday right and today's Wednesday we're just gonna play some sixes and and then we're off tomorrow we go a day early which is kind of cool we get to practice for 55 minutes only at the site tomorrow night which is good you know we we're in really great game shape and the guys you know are ready so they'll be like a serve and pass on Friday morning and then it's yeah it's a 6 p.m. match on Friday so I you know I I don't think I need our guys like they've been there before so I don't need to do any kind of brilliant rah-rah speech for them you know they know what what it takes and at least what the juniors and the seniors do so that and they're leading the way in the locker room firing each other up and on the floor and practice so or I leave the rah-rah speech to Brent he's really really good at it so I'm just really looking forward to that these show and play well and and show how well they can you know just take a take a match like this. Well coach we wish you the best of luck this weekend and we'll see you back here next week. Okay thanks for coach Aldis Bursons I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Aldis Bursons show