 Well that was quite a performance by Stevenson's Mustangs tonight. 11-7 was the win over Rowan. They were shorthanded tonight joining us now is head coach Kathy Rayleigh and coach. We talked about this before the game and you were a little concerned because you were shorthanded. What a performance tonight. What a team effort from top to bottom when we were talking about who to bring up here to do the post game interview as individual players. We couldn't decide the coach. We sat outside as coaches for like five minutes trying to think who can you bring up when everyone had such an amazing performance and played their hearts out and played so tough and so physical and really matched all the things that we as a staff were worried or whether or not we could handle and not only do we handle it we outperformed in that environment. So let's take us through it because you know you guys started 0-3. You're 6-1 since 6 out of 7. What's happening with this team right now? Well there's a couple things I think that we first really put our attention on goal scoring and so we started to score more and more goals. So what that does is then in practice your defense naturally gets a whole lot better because they're having to practice every day against a much more goal seeking team. I think the biggest thing though is we now have a situation where we have a goalie we can trust. It's so much easier to play a fluid defense and an aggressive defense when you know that your goalie is going to make the saves if you deliver an out-of-angle shot or an under pressure shot and boy I thought you know Regan made the saves that she was supposed to make today. You know the ones that went in you know they were they should go in. They're your good shooting team and we didn't have the right pressure on or didn't have the right angle where we were on the shooter herself so but that is just such an important part of it. I was so happy that we outshot them as many as we did. I thought that was just so good and one of our goals was to have a better third quarter and we have a third quarter. That's the difference in the game right there. What did you say at the half? What was the difference in the third? Not much so obviously I'm not allowed to say much anymore. I wanted two things to happen. I went into today and I think we talked about this I went into today's game that I was not going to overwhelm with information at halftime because I thought that might have been one of the problems with our third quarters so I came in with two pieces of information handed the coaches three things each to talk about and I think that was helpful. I think you know hearing from those the three different voices instead of just mine in a dominating way was probably a calming effect on them and I gave them a lot of time to pump each other up which I think might be the real part of that. We'll just do it for each other it doesn't have to be you know it's not about the X's and O's every minute of every game it's often about heart and grit and tenacity and the X's and O's are part of it but it's not the whole picture. So a couple of notes from the game Sophia Murray had a great game as usual four goals but both ends of the field but I noticed though that Ava Traco may have taken like all the draws tonight I'm not a hundred percent sure was that because you were a little shorthanded coming to the game or what was there were some other issues that we were that we were having and it was just the right decision for today yeah it was the right decision for today and and it's not always going to be that way and and you know we have a lot of people that can take the draws but we we this is what we went with today and you know got us to win so we're happy with it. So your goalkeeper Regan Torber we're going to talk to her in a moment as well as Kari Aruso but the but the back line in front of Regan Torber today I know you were a little concerned but they came up big time today. So I think we've zeroed in on a couple defenses that really work well for us so what I think we were able to do today was just take Rowan out of a flow. They were taking third you know we had I don't know how many times that we were able to get a possession clock violation on them because we they were taking 30 35 seconds 40 seconds to figure out what on earth defense are they playing so that they could make their play calling. So they'd come down with a man offense but we weren't in a man so they would by the time they figured it out they were out of time to execute their man offense. If we can continue and that was the goal you know the team in the beginning of the season they were you know not happy I was changing defenses all the time change defense change defense change defense and I I promised them that they would pay off and I really felt like today we were able to throw this defense and then throw that defense and then throw this defense and it kept kept you know a really good team to a low goal total. They delivered tonight no question and Mary Washington the other night nine goals as well. We're going to let you go congratulations on the win Saturday we'll be back Eastern to start a match play. And senior day. And senior day.