 Welcome back to the Kathy Rayleigh show presented by Buffalo Wildmings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson women's lacrosse head coach Kathy Rayleigh and coach Just one game last week 14-12 victory over Buffalo State to end the non-conference slate six of your eight games have been two goals are last this year Talk about the difference in that game one Sunday. Well, you know, I'll tell you it's really good to play in a close game and win it So I think some of the things that really contributed to that You know, we've been we've been averaging nine goals a game somewhere right in there and and to come up with 14 against a pretty good team I was happy to see that that is definitely a really positive Movement, which is exactly what we want heading into the conference Conference slate. So, you know, it just sometimes you just got a gut them out You know, we had we had a handy lead of three. I think it's three out of the half and Then we came out really really flat, you know, I said in the post game interview I'll take responsibility for that my half-time speech went a little long So we were rolling out onto the field as the second half was pretty much starting So we didn't really get on a cold day. That's not really something that I should be doing So I think that slow start in the second half will chalk it up to not getting out on time And then once we kind of got our rhythm going back in we were able to pull away Which is which is good. One of the players have to mention a senior Jamie Bittner Nine draw controls in that game. She also had three ground balls three calls turnovers And she also scored two goals, which is our first multi career goal game. Talk about her play so far this year Well, you know, we've been saying all year that we have we're counting on too many goals out of our midfield So there's zeroing in on a player like Carly Bose who even zeroing in and sending the double honor She's still scoring four goals. So she's doing amazing, but we can't just be one-dimensional So one of the things that has really changed with the way that we've set up the draw in the women's game So there's a whole there's a whole lot of opportunity for a fast break off the draw So somebody like Sarah Rorty somebody like Jamie Bittner Somebody like Carly Bose are going to be putting in Hopefully two or three goals a game as a unit just off of the fast break off the draw So we were very fortunate to capitalize on quite a few of those The other thing is Jamie's got a great shot. I mean she has she is very muscular. She's very strong When she unleashes a shot the goalies tends to not even see it or be able to react to it So having a different look come from a defender who's crossing in transition or coming off the draw That's just a bonus bonus that we have in both Sarah and Jamie now turning the page Start conference play on Thursday at Alvernia talk about that match up on what you need to do to get the win Well, you know, we like we've been saying all season. We need 15 goals to win a game We did win a game with 14 and we have one other game so with I think we won one with 12 That's not in my comfort zone. That's not in our comfort zone as a unit So we're really going to try to just consistently from here on out the remainder of the season If we get 15 goals, we feel like we can win because our defense is that gives our defense a little bit more rest I think that our defense is good enough to hold good teams to 11 or 12 goals So if we can get to that point I think that we'll be sitting pretty, you know, heading into the playoffs if we Consistently are not achieving that goal. I think every game is going to be a battle like we've seen this year so far You know the one goal losses or the one goal wins or the two goal losses or the two goal wins We want to stay away from that. We want to we want to open up and put some teams away You know at halftime be a little bit after halftime three quarters of the way through we got it We got to put some teams away moving forward Well coach, we wish you the best luck on Thursday and we'll see you back here next week great Thank you for coach Kathy Rayleigh. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Kathy Rayleigh show