 Welcome into the Kathy Rayleigh show. I'm Joe Wamba joined with Kathy Rayleigh head coach of the women's lacrosse team Finally lacrosse season coach you guys head out to Salisbury opening it up tough game But you know a lot of youth on our side and a charismatic leader and Jamie Bittner And when Salisbury is doing Salisbury things she's keeping morale high She certainly is you a lot of really great things happened on Saturday First we have a almost half the roster starting roster was freshman I mean how often do you start to several freshmen in the midfield several freshmen on defense? Your goalie is a freshman And to go out there and then you know our nerves lasted maybe four or five minutes before we settled in and All the sudden we're tied tied three to three with Salisbury, you know several minutes into the first half So that's a really great and positive thing second thing that happened offensively Brady and Monty had a great had great games On all parts of the field I think that they showed that they're ready to lead the offense along with Mackenzie that We're gonna have a little more experience in there Thus the nine goals against the number five team in the country So as we learn to be better at defense with our younger players The returning players have shown that they're ready to step up and they're a little bit better than they were at this time last year I think we scored. I don't know Five goals on them last year. So we're almost doubling the total on that, which is great news for us You know Salisbury is returning every player outside of one and for us to come in so young and Untested and to perform that way leaps and bounds of better than we were on on Saturday Scrimmage I couldn't be happier with that component of it and those nerves are gonna happen Sure, you know at the beginning of any season it just is human nature But those nerves were quickly corrected. They really were you guys are gonna be back at it on Wednesday with With McDaniel and then hosting Gettysburg another two solid teams this week It's really important for us to do well out of conference and to gain respect out of conference You know like I said, I think we're ready to head into conference and and handle those teams But in order to beat the top teams in the mat conference We have to compete every out of conference game So as a coach I get teased about it a lot, but I really like to play the best of the best I'm fortunate that the best of the best want to play us And are excited to play us so I you know, we're gonna hit we're gonna hit the road on Wednesday with McDaniel Always a great team plays in a very specific way that we won't see a lot of in our in our conference the way they play defense Gettysburg is so methodical and so skilled in every position I think we're gonna be a little bit faster than they are But they're they're their tradition of method Is gonna be an interesting look for our young team to try to handle I think that's gonna be a really Springboard us as far as defensively because I think that as the game goes on we're gonna start picking up on things I think we're gonna get better and better throughout this week Hey, you mentioned the schedule and in preparations for the conference tournament The schedule is built for you to be battle tested when you get in the conference and then conference playoffs It's no fun winning the game by 10 after the first two minutes. It's not fun for either team We love to be tested. There's no point stepping foot on the field if it's not gonna gain us something So we want to play top 10 teams or top 20 teams as often as we possibly can Both both sides of the ball are gonna be tested this week. Yes, you know the offense doing their, you know The flow type offense, you know Real no set scripts like you mentioned season preview and then the defense gonna do defensive things You we we really in such instituted some things that took Salisbury's by surprise I mean we had interceptions we had doubles that came up with cause turnovers. We Took the ball back in the midfield. We did some things that we haven't done in years And I'm so happy about that with the young group. They don't know any better, which is great so offensively with the unscripted play I think that I Think we might need to do a little more scripting after this week is done We're gonna give them this week to see how we do but I think we get better at that every day as well So I'd like to I like tell many people I saw driving to the cage against Salisbury not afraid Finishing with some really good shots. So I you know, I'm pleased with both ends well coach We wish you the best of luck this weekend Continuing this season against McDaniel and Gettysburg at home. Thanks so much Joe. She's Kathy Rayleigh. I'm Joe Wamba This has been the Kathy Rayleigh show