 Hello, welcome to the Dave Gage show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royston with the season head baseball coach, Dave Gage. Coach, we brought eight games in, you know, there's a quite a few I put outside. This spring, spring is here, and just talk about kind of a little bit of who's been successful you've had this far. Sure, we'll start from the beginning, right from the beginning of the year. We had a weather change to start and ended up, instead of going to Fayetteville, went to St. Mary's and played a doubleheader there. This game was really competitive, they're a, you know, they're a pretty good team. Pitched it okay and made great adjustments in the second game. I think that showed what we were about and what kind of group we have is to come back in that second game and play really well and get a win, get a split that day. The next weekend, I went down to Gallaudet and played a really tough Marymount team and a good Gallaudet team. Marymount was a quality opponent. They split with two other conference opponents, so I thought that was a big win for us. And then, you know, this past weekend with MCLA and Immaculata, a couple of tough games. I think anytime you can sweep a weekend, you know, beat the same team three times, is a really difficult task and our guys did a great job. Yeah, yeah, certainly anytime you go to a three game series, your goal is off. I mean, your goal, obviously, went all three, but if you went two out of three, you can see that pretty good, especially when you get into conference play. But then you guys had some obstacles with the weather and had to fight, you know, Friday and Saturday and even Sunday a little bit to get the field ready. But they were up to the task and they were awarding a couple of victories. I'm so proud of this group of how hard they work and not only on the baseball field. I think you've seen some success with that this year so far. But also, you know, getting the field ready this weekend is something that a lot of college athletes don't have to do. And I think it's something that our athletes will look back on 10 years from now and laugh about, you know, when they come back, hopefully for that reunion. And, you know, so that was exciting. But overall, our kids played great. We pitched it tremendously well. Everything that I wanted out of our program was in full display this weekend, you know, holding teams to a few runs. Yeah, that's I think one of the big differences, maybe from like last year, in the first years, the pitching and defense is certainly that, you know, much improved. Certainly, you know, James Ryosynsky kind of knew coming in and what he was able to do. But Tyler Ramisłewin stepped up. There has been several big performances for you already. Yeah, James is electric. I mean, that fastball is electric and his off speed is really good. I think, you know, he's averaging 15 or 16 strikeouts per nine right now, which is very, very impressive. But then Joe Thompson has done a great job. The first couple outings, you know, senior transfer for us. And then Tyler has pitched with so much confidence. And, you know, we got good, we have a good bullpen too. And we haven't had to use them, which is a good thing. Yeah. But excited to know that we have some good arms down there if we need to get to them. And defensively, we've done a great job. When we held Saturday or Sunday, the first game, we only gave a one free 90, which if you're only giving up one free base is, you know, that's impressive at any level. Yeah, absolutely. You know, offensively, like it hasn't been, I feel like you're wearing a very balanced team. You don't have that one guy that only this guy can get a hit. You know, one through nine, the lineups pretty strong. It is. And it's exciting because I can put anybody anywhere. And, you know, Jordan Moore has hit third. And Tommy Holcomb has hit third. And Zach DeLong, I think, has hit third. I've had a couple guys hit third and, you know, or fourth. And we can change those guys up. You know, top of the lineup is always going to step the table. They did a great job last year. They're doing a good job this year. But it's a fun lineup to watch because anybody can get that big hit. You don't get to a certain spot in the lineup and worry. Right, yeah. Worry, who's going to move that guy over? Who's going to get that big hit? Of course. Coming up here, I've got some scheduled home games, obviously the weather's already quite a little bit with the schedule this week. But Thursday, Friday, Saturday, got some home games coming up. But kind of how you build momentum as you work towards, you know, next weekend, conference play is going to be here. That's why we have what we have coming up. So we have, you know, Gettysburg on Thursday, a pretty well coached team, and always going to give us a tough run. Centennial conference team, and same thing with McDaniel. You know, they're going to challenge us. But then, you know, it gives us a chance to get ready for hood because Cabrini's really good. So I'm excited about this weekend. Four games. We'll figure out who our three conference guys are this weekend and, you know, and make a run towards this thing as we get going. All right. Well, coach, we should best select this weekend going forward and we'll try to get it soon. Thanks, Craig. All right. For Dave Gage, this is Greg Royce. This has been the Dave Gage Show.