 Hello, welcome to the Dave Bernan show presented by Buffalo Wildlings I'm Greg Royce with here with Stevenson cross country head coach Dave Bernan coach you guys Saturday went up to the Matt conference championship up at Delaware Valley and You had a lot of best best ever finished for the men's second place and you know the women's side Kelly Winkleball had our best ever, you know place for a woman in fifth So, you know first let's just talk about the men I was these six all conference people two in the top five Patrick Watson second at Langston gash finishing fifth take us through that race Yes, so I mean the guy is going in they really thought I mean we had an outside shot of winning But nobody really picked us to win so they kind of went in this went in as the underdog But I mean to be to finish within 10 points of Messiah. I think it's a really big accomplishment And we had some people really step up. I mean for one pat getting second place. Nobody saw that coming I mean I did but as far as people in the conference and things like that Nobody really expected that and then our fifth guy in the key to cool it He really came on strong It was the first time that he was even in our top seven this year, and then he was our fifth guy Yeah, yeah, I know Pat Watson's a guy We've kind of talked about all years kind of being you know, he's been kind of the second place guy But you've always said he has that potential to be you know right there with Langston Yeah, definitely and Langston kind of had a little bit of an off day as well But if we can get the two of them to be closer together at regionals, it's and I mean it's really gonna help us Yeah, and then like you said 10 point difference. That's not you know, that's really not that big You know a couple guys switch one or two spots higher and push them You know spotter too lower and all of a sudden you're talking about you know, you're right there Yeah, exactly, and I mean we're happy. I'm happy with second place. Like you said It's the best we've ever finished last year. We were fifth I don't remember what we were the year before that but we're definitely improving every year absolutely another women's side You know Kelly Winklemire missed this race last year because she was her came back finished fifth best ever finished for female in the program History. Yeah, she ran a great race. She went out really conservative and Was actually pretty far back early on and then worked her way up into fifth place by halfway And then this kind of kind of hung on there. Yeah, and then you finish seventh place as a team You know a Joel she stepped up. She finished 17th. They believe to get all conference So it's first time believe you've had to all conference on the women's side Yeah, definitely, and then I mean seventh place the other thing if you look at the women's team scores I mean fifth place was less than 20 points up. So I mean it we were close I mean and next year that I know they're excited about improving upon that Yeah, it seems like with the women like you said you got a lot of you know underclassmen that are strong and You know have been improving the whole year. Yeah, definitely. We've said we've had some pretty big jumps I mean Emily Gates has been up there all year, but then I mean we also have Chloe O'Hara another freshman and then I mean Carly Bartholomew is another one and they just keep improving every week So it's exciting to watch. Yeah. All right. Now. You've got you know a couple weeks until the regionals What do you do to prepare for that? We'll talk a little more about regionals next week Yeah, you know, what do you do prepare with these two weeks until the regional? I mean we're back to work I mean this this week because we have a we have two weeks this week in between ends up being Not not a really hard week, but another another kind of higher intensity week so that they can get ready to race well in two weeks and The great thing about the guys is as soon as they finished they were already thinking about what they can do in two weeks at regionals Yeah, that's good to hear. Well, congratulations on everything from this past weekend and we'll talk to you next week about You know about that and see a regional All right for David and I'm Greg Royce. This has been the David and show