 Hello and welcome to the Jason Tawney show. I'm Joe Wombo, joined now with Jason Tawney, head coach of the baseball team. And coach, we're going to talk about some victories over a nationally ranked team, your 20th and 21st career victories over a nationally ranked team. And couldn't have come at a better time against Alvernia. Yeah, we absolutely needed those Ws. I would like to have gotten a third one against them, but that's being a little greedy. But yeah, being able to beat them twice, we slept them in a double header on senior day, on Sunday, tremendous victories, tremendous play by the team. And yeah, 20th and 21st win over a nationally ranked team. We really need them to make ourselves viable to make a run for that last conference spot. So we still need some help this weekend. And we need to take care of business. But we definitely like the two wins we got. Yeah, if you want to talk about some post season possibilities, you guys need to sweep and need a little bit of help from other teams. But first, as you mentioned, you've got to take care of business. Yeah, we've got to take care of our side. We've got to take it to Messiah. We're capable of sweeping them. We're capable of sweeping anybody we play. So we're capable of it. But then, yeah, we're going to need some help. So if anybody from Albright's listening, we could definitely use a sweep from Albright as well. That's the one path to the MAC tournament we have right now. As of going into yesterday's game, it was kind of crazy. As of yesterday, it could have finished anywhere from second to sixth. That's a broad spectrum. Yeah, it's very broad. And it was about us sweeping and winning out. And some other teams doing some work. We could have finished second. And of course, if we don't play, well, obviously, then we'd be down the sixth area. But it's a crazy year this year in this conference. You guys have definitely proved yourselves a little bit with those victories against Alvernia. How do you continue that play? Look past the speed bump and the buzz saw they ran into with the Alvernia picture on Monday. But how do you continue that play to keep getting those opportunities to get them postseason? Yeah, that's a great question. Because we've shown throughout the year at times we can play at that level. We lost to Cortland, who was number two in the country, five-four in the bottom of the ninth. So we're capable of playing at that level consistently. It's always about a play here or a play there, something we try to emphasize to the guys. It may be a pitch here or a pitch there. Hopefully, we can keep that up. I know one of my players said to me after the game. He's like, I don't understand our team. Why we can play like this against these guys? And then there's other teams we just don't play as well. And a lot of it comes down to some young mistakes that we make. And I think I said it last week or the week before. We're in a little bit of a rebuilding year. So we have a lot of freshmen we're depending on. Yesterday was an example. We were playing, ran to the buzz saw of a pitcher through a terrific game for Alvernia. But I had two freshmen on the mound through all nine innings and through the ball well. So we're hoping that's a building point going forward, a building spot. And actually, going into the ninth inning, we only had two hits, both by freshmen. So I think that that's the good side of it. The bad side is it make a lot of freshman mistakes. Sometimes it comes down to throwing the right pitch into the right spot. You may throw the pitch and get the break on it that you want, but it needs to hit where it needs for the defense to be able to make a play as well. And that's learning. That's what, as a freshman, that's the reason why it's tough to depend on freshmen in our sport is there's some nuances to the game that you need to understand, and that's one of them. We've struggled with that at times this year. It's not that the stuff's not good enough. It's sometimes it's location or if we're making a purpose pitch and trying to set up another pitch and we get too much of the plate or it's not as high as we want or whatever. Those are some of the growing pains you have to live through. But I can tell you, for those guys specifically, as sophomores, it's going to be a whole another level for them. I hope that's the goal. They learn from that and take themselves to a whole another level. You guys have a lot of optimism in the youth of your team. It could be a growing pain season, but you're growing is the point. We are. We are. And we're still sitting in a spot where after this weekend, we hope to be at 20 wins. Still got a chance to get to the conference tournament once you're in. You know what can happen, which means if we can get to that point, we still have a chance at NCAAs and at a lesser level, EACs. There are all possibilities out there, so a lot of our team goals are still there, even though we have such a young team right now. Yeah, it's a lot of optimism heading into this weekend, and we wish you the best of luck this week, and safe travels everywhere you're going. Thank you. He's Jason Tawny. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Jason Tawny Show.