 Welcome back to the Kathy Rayleigh show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson women's lacrosse head coach Kathy Rayleigh and coach spring break out in California not here in the foot of snow that we have going on You face Claremont Mudge Scripps is ranked 22nd in the country and Chapman dropped both of them that Chapman game was the fifth game in Seven they've been two points or less two goals or less. Yes. Yeah, so just talk about your team's performance in those games First of all, you know, I you got to give credit to Claremont They are way way above where their ranking has them position right now The issue is being from that West region. They don't see anybody who's also in the top 10 or top 20 I would put them as top three best teams. We've played this year and we have played one We have played three. We have played several we have scrimmaged against, you know, several in the top five several in the top ten So I'm putting Claremont way up there. So all in all Sam. I think that we had a very good defensive game We just are really struggling right now with goal scoring and that happened in the Chapman game as well We're just not in position right now with our young Young attack to be confident enough with the ball to make things happen We're all kind of waiting around for one or two girls to make things happen and hope that they do it on their own shoulders But that's not happening. So we have seven attackers down there We can't expect to to do all the goal scoring. So it is definitely where you know with that halfway point of the season We definitely need to step up and have seven threatening people Below that restraining line when we have possession of the ball if we continue to just wait for one or two to do It's gonna be a long season. Yeah, one of those goal scorers Carly Bose She scored in every one all seven games sure this season who else are you looking for looking to to put the ball in the back Then that you know Dana Stevens Keeley Buns Lindsay Sip they all need to be they should be multiple goal scorers every single game And each come with their own set of why that's not happening Which we try to address during practice and hope that they get better and better every game They're all extremely talented young women They just don't have the confidence right now They don't have the confidence to catch under pressure. They don't have the con confidence to finish well They're not putting their shots where I know they can put them So it's a combination of excuse me different things that need to come together now that we're heading into in-conference play Yeah, and you talk about that you wrap up non-conference play this Sunday with Buffalo State at home had over a week off What are you working on in the practice this week leading up to that game couple things? We're trying to change our look offensively You know the defense in the majority of the games the defense has performed pretty well team defense our ride looks fine You see teams aren't scoring us on us in the fast breaks So we've improved in the draw over the last several games We've gotten better and better and better and better at the draw So we've addressed certain areas and our team has been responsive in those certain areas The last one the last domino to fall is is that attack and getting them to realize and in this day And age and women's lacrosse where you have the shot clock you can't win games without being in double digits You cannot win games without being double digits. We have yeah, I don't think we have yet to put a game with 15 I Don't think we have I think you know we're at that. We're at that eight and probably nine goals a Game average somewhere right around there and that's not enough to win games That's not enough to win games against the top 20 team That's not enough to win games against the top 50 team So until we can get to the point that we are putting in 15 or 16 goals a game Which is a goal we identify before the season even started We're gonna we're gonna it's gonna be dicey. It's gonna be chancey and and I don't want to leave that for chance So in practice this week We're we're putting some pressure on those attackers to score in different ways fast break slow break and in our plays And and hopefully we can get to the point From between now and when we open up conference we can get to the point where we're scoring that 15 16 goals a game Well coach, we wish you the best of luck on Sunday and we'll see you back here next week. Thank you for coach Kathy Rayleigh I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Kathy Rayleigh show