DAWG Weeks! | In The Nest Season 3 - Episode 6

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Because we didn't come home empty handed. The. [00:00:02] Speaker B: On Tuesday. [00:00:03] Speaker A: Yesterday. From Ankeny, Iowa, from the faith Baptist Eagles, what did we come home with? [00:00:09] Speaker B: Matthew B. Shane, the Lightwell Insurance Advisors cup. [00:00:19] Speaker A: Look at this thing. And welcome back to the official Emmaus athletic podcast in the nest. [00:00:28] Speaker B: Whoo. [00:00:28] Speaker A: I'm your co host, Shane Douglas, here with Matthew Thomason. Yeah. Yeah, man, that was a great bye week we had. [00:00:35] Speaker B: That was a great bye week. Unfortunate bye week, but we very much. [00:00:38] Speaker A: Planned and organized and scheduled bye week with all the communication to the public and, man, did you enjoy Hawaii? That's where you at? I went to Fiji. Just beautiful spots in our great land of the world to enjoy a bye week. [00:01:00] Speaker B: A bye week. Big bye week. [00:01:03] Speaker A: Sorry, everybody. We did not record an episode last week. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Our bad. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Shane was ill and Matt was traveling for work. [00:01:11] Speaker B: I was in Colorado all week that. [00:01:12] Speaker A: Week, which is very similar to Hawaii. Very similar. I was actually told Colorado is the Hawaii of the mountains. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Interesting. Okay. I mean, that's where all of, like, the ski, big ski resorts are. [00:01:26] Speaker A: I'm actually. I made that up. I made that up. So if you. If you fell for that, that's. You're gullible. [00:01:30] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:01:31] Speaker A: But I love you. I do love you, Matt. And it's great to be back. So I'm so sorry. We're sorry. To the Ron family, the Rand family. [00:01:38] Speaker B: Andy Fessler. Sorry, Andy Fessler. [00:01:40] Speaker A: So sorry you didn't get to sit on the couch and watch us right before bed. [00:01:45] Speaker B: We ruined. [00:01:46] Speaker A: And all the grandmas. We're so sorry. We mean it. We do mean it. So many people have came up to us in the last week of what happened. What happened? Bye week. You guys earn it. You earn it. It was like, okay, thank you. You know, I don't think we did. [00:01:59] Speaker B: No, we didn't. [00:02:00] Speaker A: But thank you so much, and we love you guys. We love your support. So thank you for listening and tuning in. Of course, every week making us a part of your day, your daily routine, either if that's in the restroom, in the shower, on the road, on your drive, drive home from work, your quiet time. You just need to listen to Matt and Shane. It's your quiet time. [00:02:22] Speaker B: Welcome to today's episode. [00:02:23] Speaker A: So, thank you. No, but we appreciate you guys. We love you so much. Thank you for bearing with us last week and the complications we had in the schedule, but we've had, we have a Pac schedule Pack episode today. A lot of stuff has gone down, and it's been a fun week with family alumni weekend homecoming weekend this last week, getting to see a lot of you, a lot of friendly faces, meeting new people, listeners of the show, supporters of the school of athletics. So hopefully you're joining us today, and we thank you. We love you guys. But it's like we said, matt, it's been pretty busy. [00:03:08] Speaker B: They got a lot to talk about. I was going to say best. [00:03:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:13] Speaker B: We haven't lost a game since our last episode. [00:03:15] Speaker A: Hey, Matt was actually saying this beforehand. He's like, shane, I don't think we should come. I don't. I don't think we should. [00:03:20] Speaker B: Bye week. [00:03:21] Speaker A: We need another bye week. I'm dead serious. But we're here. [00:03:24] Speaker B: You're here. [00:03:24] Speaker A: So if we lose this weekend, it's our fault. [00:03:28] Speaker B: We're done. [00:03:29] Speaker A: Podcast over. Dead serious. But what I will say, and a podcast cannot ruin this, is merchandise, is gold, is heavy, big objects that we do not idolize, but we love holding yes. And winning. [00:03:53] Speaker B: Yes. [00:03:54] Speaker A: Shout out because we didn't come home empty handed. [00:03:57] Speaker B: The on Tuesday. [00:03:58] Speaker A: Yesterday. From Ankeny, Iowa, from the faith Baptist Eagles. What did we come home with? Matthew? [00:04:05] Speaker B: The Shane the Lightwell Insurance Advisors cup. Look at this thing. [00:04:14] Speaker A: Look at this thing. Let's go. So, spoiler alert. But Matt already said it. We are undefeated since our last episode, and we won. We had two games yesterday and both the men's soccer team. Tuesday. That's right. We record on Wednesdays. We won. We secured it for the first time. Men's and our men's soccer team, our women's volleyball team. [00:04:39] Speaker B: So, backstory for the bag. Two years ago, we started a trophy that is sponsored by the Iowa National Guard Chaplains association. First trophy we started was just men's basketball. And so gradually, the hope was to continually add each sport throughout the next few years. And so we had two years with the men's basketball chaplain's cup trophy. And then now this year, they just added the Lightwell Insurance Advisors cup because Lightwell insures both Emmaus and faith. And so how it works is the first game that they played for this trophy, that school that wins gets to keep the trophy for the whole year, and then that home game the following year is when you fight for the trophy again. So fortunately, haven't brought the men's basketball cup home yet, but yet the women's volleyball trophy is ours for the year. Yes. Shout out to the Mays women's volleyball team. [00:05:38] Speaker A: Good job, ladies. We, you play great. The women's team played great, and we're going to talk more about that throughout this episode. This is a beautiful thing. We'll keep this here to reflect. That's wild. [00:05:51] Speaker B: That's really reflecting on my forehead. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Oh, that's crazy, man. I need to get one of these for fantasy football. This is really nice. They got some nameplate stuff right here on the side, all the way around. [00:06:04] Speaker B: This is what is going to go to the Rams after they've been to every single game. [00:06:08] Speaker A: Kevin, you deserve this. And then we got our logo right here. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Yep. [00:06:12] Speaker A: Shout out to sharon Tomlinson, who's working at faith right now. She got our help set this one up. Correct. Athletic logo right there with the crest. With the crest, which looks so good. Love that. Love that. This is beautiful. This is great. And I can't wait to get that basketball one here, too. So shout out to faith for helping put this together, for getting it. Getting it rolling, and, um, giving it to us, honestly, so. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Well, we won it, but I'm just. [00:06:39] Speaker A: All fun and games, all funny games. Uh, this is really cool that we're able to do this, um, and good sportsmanship and good love with, uh, the faith eagles. And it's fun that we get to, you know, hold on to it for a year, and then we can welcome. Welcome them back to our home court. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Next year for the next battle of. [00:06:56] Speaker A: The Iowa Eagles, and hopefully we can hold on to it. Yeah, but it's better when you, like, you. When you steal it from them, you know, like, retaining it is cool. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Hopefully this year for basketball, we'll get. [00:07:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's better when you just, like, it's mine now. But where the we are, let's face hasn't had this. Like, they haven't held on to this yet. Technically. Technically, they haven't earned it. [00:07:17] Speaker B: They just have the basketball. [00:07:17] Speaker A: So we're the only ones. We're undefeated with this trophy. Yeah, it's the first year, so either way, we got a long podcast. We just really wanted to show off this trophy and a huge shout out to coach Hannah and coach Megan and the volleyball team for bringing this, bringing this home, and bringing a lot of excitement and energy to the game. [00:07:36] Speaker B: Dramatic fashion. But we will talk about that, that later. [00:07:38] Speaker A: This is true. This is true. So, for today's episode, we were. We will recap a lot. There's so much to recap. So please get your drink, get your snacks right now, turn their stereo up. You know, you know, chill wherever you're. Wherever you're at, don't pause this or pause it now. Boom. And then go get whatever you need for this long episode. Don't know how long. [00:07:59] Speaker B: We'll try to keep it short at a gas station. If you're driving, get a drink. Get a drink on the road. [00:08:05] Speaker A: Buckle it up and lay back. Be. Be prepared for this long episode because there's tons to recap, and it's good stuff. Good stuff. Everybody coming home, everyone being dogs these last two weeks. Dogs. Dogs like the Georgia Bulldogs dogs, except they lost. It's not dogs. It's dogs. [00:08:25] Speaker B: Dogs. [00:08:25] Speaker A: We've been dogs in cross country, dogs and volleyball dogs and soccer. And we're hoping to carry that momentum right into October. So that's what we're gonna talk about this episode is the dog weeks, the dog week, the dog month. A lot of conference games, lots of regional games, not many. Anything else? We got two races left, two races left, and then nationals, which we've qualified. Spoiler. [00:08:59] Speaker B: Let's go. [00:09:00] Speaker A: We've qualified. [00:09:00] Speaker B: We'll get to dogs. [00:09:02] Speaker A: We're gonna. So we're gonna look ahead at each individual. Individual sport. [00:09:05] Speaker B: RFP headphones. [00:09:06] Speaker A: You know, we'll shout out. I know, we'll shout out to alumni weekend. Talk about that a little bit. We got an amazing event happening on our campus today, Thursday, and Friday and Saturday. Discover Mace weekend. And then we got some stats. Stats of the week. Stats, stats of the week, brought to you by our sponsor, Matthew Thomason, and his mathematic brain of his. This guy's actually really good at math. Like, he. I. We went shopping earlier for do, and I asked him. Uh, actually, it was a simple math question. I could have figured it out, but I was too lazy, so I just asked him, and boom. 102. Shane is 102. So. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Well, shout out. My dad, who started the math program here, sure was also our bus driver for eight years for athletic teams. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Well, dog week, cross country. Tell them about it, Matt. Tell him about it. [00:09:58] Speaker B: Douglas. Man, like we said, like you said in our last episode, that our team, we did, but you led the way that they would qualify for nationals. [00:10:10] Speaker A: Easy. [00:10:10] Speaker B: And, Shane, you know what happened? [00:10:12] Speaker A: Easy. [00:10:13] Speaker B: Every single guy ran fast enough to individually qualify for nationals dogs, which rarely happens, and so thus everyone individually qualifying the team qualifies. So, first time in Emmaus cross country men's history, we qualify for nationals. [00:10:34] Speaker A: And the women did not race. [00:10:35] Speaker B: And the women did not race because they've already qualified. Yes, but that's not even the best thing. Shane. [00:10:39] Speaker A: Shane, what's the best thing, man? [00:10:40] Speaker B: Benjamin driscoll, our freshman, broke the Emmaus school record by over 1 minute. 1 minute? [00:10:50] Speaker A: 1 minute doesn't sound like a lot for you listeners in the cross country world. In the running world, that's a lot to cut off. 1 minute after running your fastest is insane. Ridiculous. You go run your fastest mile and then try to cut off 1 minute. It's not gonna happen. It's not? [00:11:08] Speaker B: Nope. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Cause these young men and women are trained professionals in the cross country world, and they are dogs. [00:11:16] Speaker B: Dogs. So ben broke the emmaus school record at 29 minutes and 17 seconds, but also fast. Matthew Hanselman, who also pr'd, was 3 seconds off of breaking that school record as well. He ran 30 minutes and 20 seconds. And also that race, Sam Stapley Pr ed and he ran 31 minutes and 19 seconds. [00:11:39] Speaker A: Just dogs right there. [00:11:40] Speaker B: They went out. They showed out. And the best part is they outrank two NAIA schools, so runners on scholarship. And he ran faster than three division three teams. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Don't say that too loud. Cause then they're gonna. They're gonna want to get money and then. [00:11:57] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:11:59] Speaker A: I don't know how that works here, honestly. [00:12:01] Speaker B: Crazy. [00:12:01] Speaker A: But dogs either way. Dogs. And to top it all off, Matt. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Yes, Shane. [00:12:07] Speaker A: This was down in Missouri. Yes. [00:12:10] Speaker B: In 90 degrees. [00:12:12] Speaker A: 95 degrees out. 95 degrees. I'm, like, looking like Paula, I guess, right? Oh, yeah, that too. 95 degrees outside on a tough track. [00:12:25] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:12:26] Speaker A: And you're. And you're beating the school record and you're pr ing and you're in 95. Just dogging it out. I love it. [00:12:31] Speaker B: That's why it's so exciting that this weekend. [00:12:33] Speaker A: Yes. [00:12:34] Speaker B: 30 degrees cooler. [00:12:35] Speaker A: It's true. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Most likely. [00:12:36] Speaker A: And that's something we're going to get to, is coming up for our cross country team and the race. Looking forward. But I'm really excited, Matt, about our men's team, our women's team heading in to. We only have two more races, I believe, left. And then we have regionals, which we are hosting. [00:12:52] Speaker B: Yep. [00:12:52] Speaker A: That's. That's like, to look forward for next week, next week's episode, which we will. We'll get into that more. Maybe we'll even run through the teams, give you, like, a little brief run with the team. What to look for, huh? [00:13:05] Speaker B: I said. Or run with the team. [00:13:06] Speaker A: There's so many puns here that are just not. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Sorry. Bye week was a father. [00:13:11] Speaker A: What? [00:13:12] Speaker B: So bye week was a busy week. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. Either way, women's team is rested, they're healthy, ready to go. [00:13:19] Speaker B: Yep. [00:13:20] Speaker A: They're racing this weekend. [00:13:21] Speaker B: Yep. [00:13:21] Speaker A: So both teams are racing this weekend. Great warm up for our regional. [00:13:25] Speaker B: But they're running a six k, so times will be a little the women are. Yes. [00:13:28] Speaker A: Okay. Men are running eight k. Yep. And I guess, as a recap, this race is in Cedar Rapids. So if you're an alum, you're a supporter of the school, you love. [00:13:39] Speaker B: Seminole Stampede. [00:13:40] Speaker A: We're racing in Cedar Rapids. Make a trip there. [00:13:44] Speaker B: It's a morning race. [00:13:45] Speaker A: Support the Eagles. Support the Eagles. And the best part is, we talk to previous racers, the current racers who have ran this track. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Coach Girardis. [00:13:56] Speaker A: Yep. And it is a very runner friendly. [00:13:59] Speaker B: Historically. It is a fast race, which is. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Exciting, very runner friendly course, which we are really looking forward to. And if we can. Honestly, I just. I feel like we haven't seen. We haven't seen the. The ceiling. [00:14:13] Speaker B: No, we haven't. [00:14:14] Speaker A: You know, the. The potent. The true potential from our men's team and women's team, which is crazy. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Cause the guys right now are 11 seconds out of second place. [00:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah, that. You said that. Really. [00:14:26] Speaker B: It's Bob Jones, North Central, and then us by 11 seconds. [00:14:29] Speaker A: And Bob Jones is looking really good this year. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Bob Jones has won. [00:14:33] Speaker A: That's the team fact check. [00:14:34] Speaker B: But they've won, like, a lot in a row. Yeah. [00:14:37] Speaker A: So Bob Jones. They won nationals as a team, and I. [00:14:41] Speaker B: They had the first. [00:14:42] Speaker A: They did not. [00:14:43] Speaker B: Racers last year. They didn't know. They wore the first five, I think. [00:14:46] Speaker A: Yeah. They did not win individually. [00:14:48] Speaker B: Nope. Ozark did. [00:14:49] Speaker A: Yep. But they. They swept the convert competition, if you could, in cross country, when it comes to team finishing, they score. We'll talk about this more when it gets to nationals, but they score based off of the place you finish and then add in that total to your team total. And they were in. I think they finished with 24 points. Second place was in the eighties. [00:15:12] Speaker B: Crazy. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Wild. So bob jones is the team to beat. And we have. We have the talent. We have the young men and the young women, and that's just the men's times. But women is just as tough. But we have the team, dude. We have the roster to compete. And I am excited for this race this weekend to see what ben and matthew and sam and caleb and christian and our new racer, daniel. Daniel. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Daniel. [00:15:40] Speaker A: Daniel. So, uh, especially because this was their. [00:15:43] Speaker B: First eight k of the year. [00:15:44] Speaker A: Yes. [00:15:45] Speaker B: So, like most other schools have already run two to three eight k's, and that was our first eight k. First time. So, like you said. Yeah, there's some good things coming. [00:15:54] Speaker A: It's hard to see with this massive trophy, in a way. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Oh, man. I can't believe we want it. [00:16:01] Speaker A: We're just making light of it, guys. We're nothing. It's. It's pretty empty inside, and it doesn't give us any, you know, glory or. [00:16:11] Speaker B: It's just a cool knick knack. [00:16:12] Speaker A: I feel like I could bend it really easy. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Hopefully not. [00:16:15] Speaker A: It's really nice. Thank you, Faith. [00:16:19] Speaker B: You are girls, for bringing home. [00:16:20] Speaker A: But Jesus is better than shout out. [00:16:23] Speaker B: To the soccer team for their great chance yesterday. [00:16:25] Speaker A: This is true. Either a back to crash country, though. Really looking forward to what they're able to do. We got new Daniel. Seeing what he can do. Daniel, he. He's a talker, and he's been saying he's gonna beat Ben. Ben Benjamin. He's like, I'm gonna beat Benjamin's record, which is the school record. And I'm like, okay, Daniel. So we're gonna have over under for Daniel. We won't sit talk about that on podcast. That's just gonna be, like a friendly wager. But also with the women's team, cross country team, we haven't really been healthy and haven't really ran a lot in, what, three weeks. I know they've had a long break, so really looking forward to see Kate and Anna. Anna, the dynamic duo, be able to compete this weekend together. Healthy, hopefully not really stressed out. I know Anna's in a nursing major, so she might be a little stressed. She has a bunch of clinicals and stuff at the end of this week. But what they are able to accomplish as a duo, being healthy. Cause Kate wasn't healthy in her first race, and it was really tough. But Auggie Christian has been killing it herself in there. Bria has been really making those. Bria Tutto has been. And making those steps alongside that. [00:17:40] Speaker B: So has Riley Rath. [00:17:41] Speaker A: So has Riley Rath. So really love that. And then all around the team as a whole is not healthy. [00:17:46] Speaker B: No. [00:17:46] Speaker A: We still. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Alice Hanselman hasn't been able to run at all. [00:17:49] Speaker A: Or will Kuranda. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Will Kuranda hasn't been able to run at all, so. [00:17:52] Speaker A: And we have no idea, I think. [00:17:53] Speaker B: That Abby mast has ran it all. Yes. [00:17:56] Speaker A: So it's. This team looks nasty. They look really, really awesome. And there's so much. So much potential and so much hype around this young team moving forward for next year, for the years to come. Um, especially, we were able to. If Will's able to get healthy, lord willing. If Alice is able to get healthy, lord willing. Um, and bringing back these. These runners, uh, and student. These student athletes. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Yes. [00:18:21] Speaker A: It's going to be great. Great for cross country, even better for the campus in our community. Here at Emmaus. So shout out, cross country. Love you guys. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Um, who, by the way, put on a very good five k and kids run. This is true during alumni homecoming weekend this past weekend. [00:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah. And that was a good time. That was actually great time. Yeah. Who won that? [00:18:47] Speaker B: Did they really, do they keep count? [00:18:50] Speaker A: I heard that this. I heard it was a controversy finish. Controversial finish. So that's why with that said, though, cross country, there's so much, so much to talk about with after this race. Really looking forward to see what they're able to accomplish with a easy, not easy, but a friendly course for the runners. [00:19:09] Speaker B: So definitely keep an eye out, please, for the standings because I think this event also does the live time capture. So keep your eye on that. [00:19:18] Speaker A: That's good. So, yeah, also, let me, with that said, just keep an eye out on our social media, on YouTube, on Instagram, Facebook, whatever, whatever you do, use for updates of our cross country team when they're racing, how to watch, how to keep track, and for the finished final times to see how they. How they did. And you can always re watch this podcast, listen to the numbers of what they are able to finish from the previous race, or even look at the previous post from that to see how they, how they match. Yes. So love you, cross country. Moving on. Women's volleyball. Dogs, dogs, map dogs right here. This is honestly all we need to really show you and talk about is this trophy. But then Jennika. Jennika and Caitlin would still kill us for not talking about them. [00:20:07] Speaker B: So cry volleyball. [00:20:11] Speaker A: Are you good? You're like being. Stop it. [00:20:15] Speaker B: So volleyball. So, yes. So since we recorded last episode, volleyball is four and. [00:20:22] Speaker A: Oh. Mm hmm. Bring in their total record to nine. [00:20:25] Speaker B: And four, which is awesome. Best start since 2018. So recapping the four wins from this season so far. So two weeks ago, last two Saturdays ago, they traveled over to Moody in Chicago and played them. So they previously beat them 30. [00:20:43] Speaker A: What? [00:20:43] Speaker B: Couple weeks prior to that. So they played them, ended up winning 30. [00:20:47] Speaker A: Yep. [00:20:47] Speaker B: Pretty handily. I think the second set was like 25 to six or 25 five. So they took care of business. Bev and Kate had some double digit kills in that match. And then for homecoming, they played Maranatha last Friday. And so that was a good game. Selah had double digit kills, didn't play as well as we wanted to, but still took care of business and beat Maranatha for the first time ever at Emmaus, which was epic, which is exciting. [00:21:23] Speaker A: Which during homecoming weekend, the gym was packed. It wasn't hot like it was last year, which is awesome. We are very well prepared. The floor wasn't sweating. [00:21:36] Speaker B: No. It wasn't like. [00:21:37] Speaker A: And it didn't mess up any of the teams. [00:21:39] Speaker B: Nope. [00:21:39] Speaker A: And it was an even playing ground for a home team against OA team, as usual. [00:21:43] Speaker B: Cause two years ago it was an epic match. It was awesome. Meredith ended up pulling out in extra points in the fifth set. But this year girls took care of business and won 30. And then turned around Saturday and played CCCB, who's. This is their first year with the volleyball program in quite some time. And took care of business, played well. One 30, which was really good. And then Tuesday, as you can see from the trophy, we've already talked about Tuesday, crazy game against Faith. Faith is receiving votes. So they have received votes to be in the coaches poll in the top ten. And we took the first two sets, Shane. And then it got a little scary in the next two sets, Faith. One set three and one set four. [00:22:33] Speaker A: By. [00:22:34] Speaker B: By a lot. [00:22:35] Speaker A: By a lot. [00:22:35] Speaker B: It was like. It was Eva's. 2520-2523. We won. And then third set, they won 20 515. And it was like, okay, we've been in this position before, but got a little nervous. But then the girls in set five. [00:22:49] Speaker A: Took care of Christmas. [00:22:50] Speaker B: Enough is enough. And they won set 525 or 15 to six. [00:22:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Which was awesome. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Yep. [00:22:57] Speaker B: Huge, huge moment for the girls. [00:22:59] Speaker A: Yep. [00:23:00] Speaker B: Kate and Saul had double digit kills. I think they had 24 or 25 kills combined. No, no, sorry. They had 34 kills combined, which is crazy. That was huge. [00:23:11] Speaker A: Dogs. [00:23:12] Speaker B: That took them four and O in the last two weeks. Still undefeated in regional play. Yes, still undefeated in conference play. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Shane, which we are three and o in conference, beating faith Central and Calvary. And then we're three and o in region, beating moody twice and Maranatha. So. And that's something to look forward and we'll get to that. Of the rest of this month of October, which we do have nine remaining games. Matthew, all conference, all region. No funny business. [00:23:43] Speaker B: No funny business. [00:23:43] Speaker A: No funny business. So really looking forward to that. We have face Calvary, Ozark, Manhattan and Barclay left, which Manhattan is the powerhouse to look out for. [00:23:55] Speaker B: That's currently ranked number one. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Going to be a really fun match to see our young team play against a very strong and experienced Manhattan team. That one nationals lost in the Champions League, lost against Bob Jones. That's right. Which is wild. Which is crazy. [00:24:16] Speaker B: It is. Which, by the way, was, I think, Bob Jones 6th or 7th consecutive national championship. I was telling you this morning, if. [00:24:26] Speaker A: You look at it's almost like I want Manhattan to win. I know at that point, if you. [00:24:30] Speaker B: Look at the national champions in volleyball since 2006, like we talked yesterday, four schools have won a national championship, and. [00:24:37] Speaker A: One of them is closed. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Yep. [00:24:39] Speaker A: So what the heck. But volleyball team is looking great going into this month of October. For any football fans, this is playing lights out in the months of December. Right. That's like playoff picture month. This is when you need to win the game. So you win in December. It's important going into January, going into playoffs. This is it right here. October, this is for month even, including cross country. Be able to have a great race this weekend. Momentum going into regionals, which you need to go into nationals to really see where you set yourself up with the rest of the teams. Women's volleyball, same thing. Seeing where we fall within our conference, within our regions conference is going to be tough. We got Manhattan in there. Faith is tough. We saw what they were able to do this last weekend. A lot of the other teams are, well, regionals, open story, open book. [00:25:34] Speaker B: Anyone's. [00:25:35] Speaker A: Yeah, anyone's. And honestly, we'll probably say the same thing for soccer when we get to that. But it's gonna be a crazy month, guys. Like, please. [00:25:44] Speaker B: Ridiculous. [00:25:45] Speaker A: Stay. Like, if we needed a bye week, it was last week. One for the month of October. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Like, if you haven't watched anything, watch this month because great competition and very, very meaningful competition. [00:25:58] Speaker A: So yesterday's match or Tuesday's match against Faith was huge for our girls. And something that they have been able to really show so much maturity and growth this year is finishing games, which you can. You can argue, which is that we should. We should have won in three and a lot of. In a lot of the matches, not just against faith, but this season. [00:26:18] Speaker B: Spurgeon. [00:26:19] Speaker A: Yeah, Spurgeon. Both. Both games. [00:26:21] Speaker B: That was the third time we've won the first two. Lost the next two. [00:26:25] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:25] Speaker B: But pulled it out and set five. [00:26:26] Speaker A: Yes. So. Which we were able to do by a large margin against Faith, but Faith also outscored us in points. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Yeah. So those set for instead three. [00:26:37] Speaker A: But we play them again. [00:26:38] Speaker B: Yep. [00:26:38] Speaker A: Here. Home court. A couple weeks is gonna be awesome. Looking forward to that. [00:26:42] Speaker B: Let's go. [00:26:43] Speaker A: We look forward to everything. Come on. That's like our word. It's looking forward to it. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Wait. [00:26:47] Speaker A: I can't wait till we win national. So when is. I don't know, but no finishing games. There's so much growth as a team, as an individual, as a community, a sisterhood for our women's team to be able to finish those tough matches, to be able to put up two. Needed one more game to win one more set to win and then losing the next two really has, really hurts. Really hurts. [00:27:14] Speaker B: Losing, like, being up 20 and, and getting it tied, like losing, dropping two in a row, that is hard. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:27:20] Speaker B: Like, that is so, like, debilitating. Like, how do you come back from that? But like you said, they've been able to do that three times this season. [00:27:27] Speaker A: Not to be, not to be a Christmas. Chris McHugh. Coach Chris McHugh. He loves using for sports references. That's being the Atlanta Falcons in the Super bowl against the New England Patriots. What is it, 28 to three? [00:27:37] Speaker B: Yep. [00:27:37] Speaker A: You know, you're up 28 to three at halftime and then letting them come back, you know, how are you able to finish that game? Falcons weren't able to. And of course, that was like these main stage, like, the biggest game of the year and these are just regular season games. Right. But how are you going to be able to close it? You got to close. Right. So that's something our girls are going to be, are working on. The coaches are preaching and if there's, if there's the. We have the, here's the thing. We have the right coaches. [00:28:04] Speaker B: We do. [00:28:04] Speaker A: And we have the right players to be able to finish and close these games and to bring home trophies and to bring home banners. [00:28:14] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:28:15] Speaker A: And we have this year, we have next year. [00:28:20] Speaker B: And this team, like you said, in the year after, this team is so young. So trying to figure out how to win. Still, like, they're still trying to figure out how to win. [00:28:26] Speaker A: Yes. [00:28:27] Speaker B: Which is scary because if it comes to, you know, regionals, a conference, and then next year, like, looking good. Gonna be looking good. [00:28:36] Speaker A: We're the thing. We're still very young. [00:28:38] Speaker B: We are. There's so much, one really, one senior. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Yeah. There's so much experience that we, this team has already have gone through. [00:28:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:48] Speaker A: Have, have received. So. Man, they're scary. And they could, they're, they're gonna make a huge national push this year. [00:28:59] Speaker B: I can't wait. [00:28:59] Speaker A: And these girls can do it. These girls can do it. They got the confidence. They got the swagger, they got the skill. They have the right teammates, the right players, the right coaches and regionals. Like you said, it's open. Wide open, anyone's game. Wide open anyone's game. Great Lakes took it last year. Correct. [00:29:14] Speaker B: Great grace. [00:29:15] Speaker A: Grace took it. Man, I'm so wrong with all these. I'm getting everybody mixed up. There's like, it's tough with all these names. Great Lakes and Grace are both in Michigan, and they both start with g. [00:29:23] Speaker B: Same school colors, basically. [00:29:24] Speaker A: Yeah. My gosh. And then you got worried. You got to figure out the soccer and the volleyball stats, and then you got basketball. It's tough, guys. Our job is so difficult. By a week. [00:29:37] Speaker B: But, yeah, it is wide open. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Very wide open. So there's a new format for a conference. I know we said the long podcast, and it's gonna be long new format for conference for everybody. So, any new listeners, anybody who has ever been confused about volleyball or about our athletic world? [00:29:56] Speaker B: I'm confused. Can you tell me. [00:29:57] Speaker A: Yes, Matthew, we are part of a. You can. You can say a higher conference and higher athletic division called NCCAA. Not the NCAA, but attic. Extra C. Extra C, which is Christian. [00:30:20] Speaker B: National Christian College Athletic association. [00:30:24] Speaker A: So we are essentially the. What he said, just adding the Christian to the NCAA is what we are in. And we are division two. [00:30:32] Speaker B: Yep. [00:30:33] Speaker A: So what does that, what does that mean? Is all it means is we just play against division two schools. We are equivalent to a d three school in NCAA for skill level. But d three is literally like super broad. Within skill level. There's really great d three schools and then there's really bad d three schools. Okay, we're in the middle. [00:30:50] Speaker B: Yep. [00:30:51] Speaker A: And. And it's honestly, some years those great d three schools aren't good, and they're the really bad ones. So it's always changing. [00:30:59] Speaker B: Yep. [00:30:59] Speaker A: And that's the same here. And we have witnessed that with and within some of our sports programs, through Covid, through change of leadership, through change of priorities. Priorities is going up and down that scale. This is too much. So we compete in the NCC, aa d two, and we are in the Midwest region, which consists of Kuiper, Cougars, Great Lakes Crusaders, Grace alliance, Tigers, Tigers, Bears. Oh, my. [00:31:33] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Moody Archers. Maranatha. Saber. Cats. Saber kitties. Joking. I'm joking, guys. And it's just fun play. Fun play. And then us, the Emmaus Eagle Dogs, and we have regional play, and then we have conference play. And the conference we are in is the MCC, which is Midwest Christian College Christian College conference. [00:32:01] Speaker B: And what's cool is the Midwestern Christian College conference. There are three national Christian College Athletic association regions that are a part of the Midwestern Christian College conference. [00:32:14] Speaker A: So all the teams that we play in our conference are also in the same division of NCC. We just have a conference with them on the side to have more. For sure, regular season scheduled games and also a competition for competition. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Unfortunately, not all of the NCCC teams were a part of the NCC. We weren't for a while, and then we came back, so. Yes. [00:32:43] Speaker A: So we compete on two. Yeah. And we have. When we talk about conferences, regionals. This is what we're talking about. Regionals is with the NCC, conferences with MCC. So we're both 30 in both standards and. Yeah, we are in the north. And the thing is, focus on conference for a little bit. Man, this is like so much mathematics, man. You might have to rewind this. Really focus here, guys. If you. If you just like. [00:33:13] Speaker B: We're driving 0.75 speed. [00:33:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:33:17] Speaker B: See? [00:33:19] Speaker A: My goodness. [00:33:21] Speaker B: Tough. [00:33:21] Speaker A: So this year for our volleyball teams, they split up the. With their seven schools. Seven athletic programs are in the MCCC. [00:33:31] Speaker B: Yes. [00:33:32] Speaker A: They split those up into a north and a south region. [00:33:34] Speaker B: Yep. [00:33:35] Speaker A: To help travel and help scheduling. So the north region, which is us, consists of Emmaus Bible College, the Emmaus Eagles, the Faith Eagles, and the Calvary warriors. Yep. So we will be. We will play faith twice. This is the first time we played them. This year they'll come play us again, and we will play Calvary twice as well, which we've played them once already. And we say all this because we have this whole month, there's gonna be a lot of conference play. And we want you to know the new format, what it means to both games against faith will count towards our conference record, which our conference record will be important for seating. Yep. And regionals is always typically changing. In the past, they've done power rankings for standings, but sometimes they. Some have decided to do the. [00:34:23] Speaker B: Soccer is different. Regular will probably be the same. [00:34:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:26] Speaker B: Yes. [00:34:27] Speaker A: So we'll talk more about this when we get later into October, but just a little bit of context for you as we go out throughout the next couple weeks of these episodes, talking about conference and regionals and talking about seating because it's extremely important. Extremely important. So. But, yeah, we. We just need to be able to finish those games. We do finish. Be able to finish and close, but it's a huge month for volleyball and we're looking forward to it. Like we said, nine games, most conference and most regionals. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be really tough. [00:35:05] Speaker B: Fun. [00:35:06] Speaker A: It's gonna be super fun. But this weekend, we have a lot of games with volleyball. Right. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Do. And it's all three regional games. So we play. We play Great Lakes Christian college tomorrow to kick off discover Miss weekend, and then they travel up to Maranatha to play a try match against Maranatha. [00:35:24] Speaker A: Yep. [00:35:24] Speaker B: And against Kuiper. So. [00:35:26] Speaker A: Cuz our Kuiper game was, one of our Kheper games was postponed earlier this season, but we canceled. Yeah. Oh, yeah, sure. [00:35:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:32] Speaker A: But we were able to still play them. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Yep. [00:35:34] Speaker A: Yeah. And then that leaves one more regional game, Grace. [00:35:38] Speaker B: Two weeks. [00:35:39] Speaker A: In two weeks, which will be also a very important game. [00:35:42] Speaker B: So if you win, has implications on the showdown for regional championship. [00:35:49] Speaker A: If we win conference, we get a banner. If we win regionals, we get a banner. But we go to nationals. [00:35:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:56] Speaker A: To compete for a national championship for the NCC double A. So that is. That's what we're competing. Yep. We're competing for a national championship with the NCC double A through regionals. And we're competing for banners for our MCC. See? Conference. So that's what's on the line. We haven't had a banner for conference since 2018, ladies and gentlemen. [00:36:23] Speaker B: 2020. 2020. Women's basketball won in 2020. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Did they? No, they didn't. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:36:28] Speaker A: Mm hmm. [00:36:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Because they made it to nationals. That. [00:36:31] Speaker A: You're right. Because I was still a student. Yeah, that's right. [00:36:34] Speaker B: But soccer involved, will haven't had anything since 2018. [00:36:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:36] Speaker B: With men's basketball. [00:36:37] Speaker A: And men's basketball has one for regionals. [00:36:40] Speaker B: Mm hmm. 2022. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Yes. So that's the last banner we did put up is in 2022. But. So we're banner hunting. We're banner circuits. [00:36:48] Speaker B: One. [00:36:48] Speaker A: And speaking of banners, soccer, uh oh. Soccer is in a great, very good spot. Great spot to earn a banner. [00:36:56] Speaker B: Yes, they are. [00:36:57] Speaker A: And we'll get to that real quickly. So, soccer, they are on a roll. Bring out those brooms. Because we swept faith this year, first time in school history since 2016. 2016. So, faith, they have always been a great sibling school of ours. We love them so much, and we love competing against them. It was a physical match with our men's soccer team against Faith, uh, the other week, or actually many other week. Two days ago, Tuesday and the other. [00:37:24] Speaker B: Week, but especially two days ago. [00:37:25] Speaker A: They've been dominant the past couple years against us. Our soccer program has either been just a really start restarting since coach McHugh took over, but also just sometimes we don't have the roster. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Last year, we split with them year before. They either won both or we tied. I can't remember. [00:37:44] Speaker A: So faith is always. Faith is always good. [00:37:46] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:46] Speaker A: They're always. So it's always an accomplishment when we're able to. To beat them even this once. So last year we split. This year we swept. [00:37:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:55] Speaker A: And that's awesome. So. But thank you, Faith, for being such good sports and a great sibling school to us and not holding back. They never hold back. [00:38:03] Speaker B: Nope. [00:38:04] Speaker A: They're like our kryptonite, man. I was saying it. [00:38:06] Speaker B: Take it out of on each other. [00:38:07] Speaker A: It's tough. [00:38:08] Speaker B: Doesn't matter what, doesn't matter, like, what the records are. Like, that's always like the toughest game of the year. [00:38:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:13] Speaker B: We play the hardest against each other. [00:38:15] Speaker A: It's true. It is so true, man. That is, it doesn't matter. Like, honestly, we could be no team. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Versus an o in ten team and still going to be a good game. [00:38:25] Speaker A: And, oh, and ten team could definitely pull through a win. So always fun with that. Something that we did miss last week in the men's soccer game. Oh, some recap. Do you get the recap for men's soccer team? [00:38:35] Speaker B: So we are, we are three and oh, since podcast. So huge. So we had a 20 victory against Ozark down in Joplin. They traveled down there and played Josh. Matt scored the only goal that we scored because Ozark had known goal. But with Josh's goal, that game, that became his 20th career goal at Emmaus, which is an awesome accomplishment. [00:38:55] Speaker A: That's awesome. Stat of the week, start of the week. [00:38:57] Speaker B: And then last weekend, we played Kuiper, who was receiving votes. And what a game that was because Kuiper had just come off a one one tie against Grace, who was the third ranked team in the country, who's also another regional team. [00:39:14] Speaker A: They won regions last year. [00:39:15] Speaker B: They did. They won regionals last year, went to nationals. But shane, we had such a cool thing that happened. [00:39:21] Speaker A: What happened, Matt? [00:39:22] Speaker B: Shane, we had the mat trick. [00:39:24] Speaker A: The matt, the mat trick we talked about. [00:39:26] Speaker B: It actually happened. Goals from Louie, from Jake, and from josh. [00:39:34] Speaker A: Awesome. Crazy, man. Louie in the first half, and then Josh and Jake in the second half. [00:39:38] Speaker B: It was so exciting against a good Kuiper team, too. And then Tuesday, we played faith again and defeated them again, one to zero. Jake scored in the 85th minute. So both of our wins have come late, late in the game. So we've had, it's crazy. We've had four, Tucker and our defensive line has had four consecutive shutouts. Four. And that is Tucker's league leading fifth shutout of the season. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Jameson Williams, Wilson. [00:40:10] Speaker B: James Wilson. Ew. [00:40:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:13] Speaker B: So Tucker, man, Tucker's having such a crazy year. [00:40:16] Speaker A: He is. [00:40:16] Speaker B: Five shutouts this year. [00:40:18] Speaker A: Five clean 74 saves, right? [00:40:20] Speaker B: Crazy. Something like that. Yeah. [00:40:21] Speaker A: Which is crazy. [00:40:23] Speaker B: Wild. [00:40:23] Speaker A: And we were looking at stats today with, with Tucker, and we talk about Tucker a lot. He's a great goalie. [00:40:29] Speaker B: Shout out, Tucker. [00:40:30] Speaker A: Shout out, Tucker. And it's crazy with the, the person he has allowed the most, or I. [00:40:35] Speaker B: Think Thursday for safe, per se. Like, he's a lot. Yeah. But he's like. Has an 88% save percentage. [00:40:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Which is. He's allowed, like the third most goals, but he has the best percentage. He has the most goals. Goals saved. And so it's just. [00:40:49] Speaker B: It's crazy. [00:40:50] Speaker A: It's. It kind of makes sense, but it does. [00:40:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:40:53] Speaker A: So that's awesome. [00:40:55] Speaker B: It is. I mean, that five shutouts. [00:40:56] Speaker A: And the thing is, I mean, our record reflects when you have a great keeper and you have a great back line. Shutouts. [00:41:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:03] Speaker A: Clean sheets. [00:41:04] Speaker B: So three wins gets us to what? Six two and one on the season. [00:41:07] Speaker A: Yes. Six two and one. [00:41:08] Speaker B: Six two and one. Which is crazy. Which that's a little bit about conference and regionals for men's. Yeah. [00:41:15] Speaker A: So this is really cool, Matt. And with conference this year, especially conference this year, it's. It's weird. So we talked about how there's seven teams in MCCC, that athletic teams that compete this year, cavalry warriors, do not have a team, sadly. We hope that they are able to replenish their squadron, their roster, and be able to compete. With that said, we have eight games left, eight games left for the Maya soccer team. And let me tell you this, man. They are so confident. They're confident. They're not cocky. They're confident and they are together, which is important. [00:41:55] Speaker B: That's. [00:41:56] Speaker A: We've seen Matt and I definitely have seen, we've been here a while and we've seen so many teams, lots of skill, lots of talent within our teams that just aren't together. [00:42:06] Speaker B: 2018 men's basketball Vayner team my senior year. [00:42:09] Speaker A: See, it's just they don't come together. There's conflict or maybe some drama. We're being completely transparent. And that happens sometimes when you play almost every team, someone might be like, I'm better than them. Let me play. Or why does they get the ball or what's going on? Pass me the ball. So much happens. [00:42:28] Speaker B: I'm a better co host. Oh, sorry. But it happens. And I'm proud of this team, like you said, because they're together. They are together. [00:42:37] Speaker A: And it's been a tough year. A lot of different roster changes, some injuries, big injury. We haven't. It was really tough to find an assistant coach this year, losing Eric Rasmussen from this following year. So rest in peace to Eric. He's okay. He's in Minnesota with his. Yeah, but that's why. But yeah. So them being able to be together come together in October, the month of October, the NFL December. Man, it's scary. And I'm loving it. Yeah, I'm loving it. McDonald's. Thank you. So for conference play sponsored we only have two games left to play in Con. [00:43:19] Speaker B: Hey. [00:43:19] Speaker A: And we are three and oh, we're. [00:43:21] Speaker B: Three and oh, three. [00:43:22] Speaker A: No, a conference. And this year for conference, like I said, because Calvary's not playing. There's six teams and the format they're playing this year is the top four. And I think this is what they're going to use every year. Only the top four teams make it the conference. The rest can do not compete. They can go compete in their region for Na CAA, but for conference they're only taking the top four teams for a semis to a championship game and giving that banner to that champion. So we have two games left and they are the very last two games of the regular season. Matt for conference play. One against Manhattan, who, who we lost to. [00:43:59] Speaker B: To go to the championship. [00:44:00] Speaker A: To go to the championship last year, which faith in pks. Faith ended up winning. [00:44:05] Speaker B: Yep. NP's also. [00:44:06] Speaker A: Npks against Manhattan. [00:44:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:08] Speaker A: So we play Manhattan the 25 October for regular season play because real quick. [00:44:15] Speaker B: The Oak play Ozark also. But we already played them. That game counted. So this Ozark game counts as our overall schedule, but not for our conference. [00:44:23] Speaker A: This is true this year. So we are three and oh, we beat oat. We've defeated Ozark Central and faith. That's worth twice. [00:44:31] Speaker B: But only one game counts. [00:44:32] Speaker A: So we're leading right now in conference as the number one seat. Technically. Technically. But we got that last weekend. [00:44:38] Speaker B: Yes. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Ozark. Ozark is mathematically eliminated already from conference play being Owen four. And then Central is on the edge. [00:44:47] Speaker B: If they lose game, defend. [00:44:49] Speaker A: Yes. So they're on the edge of elimination. CCCB Central, which is gonna be tough. But pending what happens with Manhattan, we could be going into our last regular season game against Barclay, who has been a powerhouse this year. Ranked. I don't know what they're ranked right now. Middle of the pack right now in top ten. But they will be ranked in the top three in the next power rankings coaches poll because they have been dogs. Barclays had a new roster, a facelift. And they look good. They look good. So we only played them once in a regular season. Last game of the season. And it's a banner game. It could be. It could be. [00:45:27] Speaker B: If we take care of business in Manhattan going into that barcode game. [00:45:30] Speaker A: It's a banner winner. [00:45:32] Speaker B: Winner of that game. If we beat Manhattan, winner of that game will win the regular season conference champion. [00:45:39] Speaker A: And it's gonna be really tough. Super tough, possibly. We might be one of the only rosters in our conference that's able to compete with them. Manhattan's already lost to them. 4151 Central has lost to them twice pretty handily. And. And Ozark has. So faith has not competed against them. So we're. They compete against him soon. [00:45:58] Speaker B: The day before. [00:45:59] Speaker A: No. The day before, yes. So we don't, we're not sure what's going to happen, but right now, crazy week. Yeah. Right now, conference looks pretty set with the four teams. Just where do they stand? [00:46:10] Speaker B: With faith, Amaya, sparkly, Manhattan. [00:46:12] Speaker A: Yes. And all this to say, of course, the week before this, before these games is an episode that we will talk about this more and we'll probably have more information going into it for sure. But we're preparing you for October. That's gonna be the title. I already know it will market. That's the title preparing for October. Right. Conference and regional play. [00:46:34] Speaker B: He's gonna put down will. This is the title. Prepare for October. [00:46:38] Speaker A: So we. And then going into. So be ready for conference. It's gonna be wild. Two last two left or two games left for conference end of the season. Out of the eight now, the remaining six are majority, if not all, besides the Ozark game. Yes, we play Ozark again, but it doesn't. [00:46:57] Speaker B: We play Ozark again. It counts regular accounts to our regular season record, but not for our conference standings because we've already played them twice, which we kind of talked about in volleyball. Sometimes you put the. If you play teams twice, only one game counts. [00:47:10] Speaker A: But, yeah. [00:47:11] Speaker B: So we have Ozark, we have Calvary or, sorry, we've Ozark, we have Manhattan, we have Barkley left, which leaves then five other games. [00:47:17] Speaker A: Yes. So we will play. We have three left for region and this year for region. They're going off. They're not going off of power ratings. They're going off the your head to head record. Head to head record. So we have played two games, and we have one, one against Kuiper 30, and then we drew against Maranatha. One, one or two? Two. But that game does not count. [00:47:44] Speaker B: Oh, but the game towards regions. [00:47:47] Speaker A: That's what I was told. This is what we were told. [00:47:49] Speaker B: Yes. [00:47:50] Speaker A: And if there's a correction, we will tell you in the next episode. So right now, we're technically one and. Oh, in region play. And next weekend, next weekend. Tuesday or Tuesday we play against Maranatha and then next week. [00:48:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Which we can talk about because we. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Can'T talk about that. We have Oak Hills on tomorrow. [00:48:10] Speaker A: Yes. [00:48:10] Speaker B: Right. Tomorrow. And then, so that's, they're not region, not conference, but they are in NCAA game. [00:48:16] Speaker A: Yep. [00:48:16] Speaker B: And then. Yes. Then like you said, the game that counts against Maranatha is a home game next Tuesday. And then the showdown next week. [00:48:26] Speaker A: Showdown weekend. Man, this is, this is insane. [00:48:29] Speaker B: Crazy. [00:48:29] Speaker A: We're going to Michigan. [00:48:31] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:48:31] Speaker A: Who we playing? [00:48:32] Speaker B: We're playing grace and we're playing Great. [00:48:34] Speaker A: Lakes, both powerhouses in soccer in our region and pretty much every sport. [00:48:39] Speaker B: So really, Grace ranked third in the nation, but they also lost a Maranatha 10. So it's like. [00:48:45] Speaker A: And Ty drew against. [00:48:47] Speaker B: So weird. It's wide open. [00:48:49] Speaker A: Yes. [00:48:49] Speaker B: There's regions for soccer. It's like, literally anybody can win because anyone. [00:48:53] Speaker A: And this what we were referring to, anybody this whole season. Cause we don't know. We can watch some of the film, but we always look at head to head record and this whole whole region and conference and teams that we play that matter, knocking each other around. [00:49:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:10] Speaker A: It's like you'll play one team, you'll beat them 80, and then they'll go play a team that will, you lost to, to one. [00:49:16] Speaker B: Yeah. It's like. [00:49:16] Speaker A: And then they'll be them. [00:49:17] Speaker B: It's like, what is going makes, it makes no sense. So, but it's also exciting because literally, we'll go up to show up to the regional tournament. Anybody could, could come out as anyone. [00:49:26] Speaker A: Anyone. Anyone. So there's no powerhouse team other than kind of Barclay right now that really made their presence known. But within our region, nobody has been like, look at us. We're the best. So Kuiper could give it, could, could take it in region. Grace could take it again. Who knows? Right? It could be our year. And this is the thing. This is, I say this every time I've said this to the guys the Q has quoted me on. This is we don't got next year. [00:49:52] Speaker B: We have this, we don't got an extra. It's this year for the roster. And we have the talent chain for. [00:49:58] Speaker A: All of our, for this year to be the year. This isn't just soccer. [00:50:01] Speaker B: No. This is for women's volleyball, this exact country. This is. Okay. This is soccer and women's volleyball and cross country. [00:50:09] Speaker A: Sure. Yeah. Is this all of our sports? [00:50:11] Speaker B: Yes. [00:50:11] Speaker A: We have this year. Right. We don't know what's gonna happen next year, who we're gonna lose. We have people graduating for sure. [00:50:19] Speaker B: But the talent. [00:50:20] Speaker A: We know what we got this year. The soccer men's soccer team. They know what team they have this year, which is a team of dogs. The women's volleyball team, they know what they got this year. A team of dogs. [00:50:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:32] Speaker A: The men's and women's cross country team, they know what they have this year. [00:50:36] Speaker B: Dogs. [00:50:37] Speaker A: Dogs. [00:50:38] Speaker B: Fast dogs. [00:50:38] Speaker A: What are we going to do with that? [00:50:39] Speaker B: What are we going to do with it? [00:50:40] Speaker A: How? What is going to show in the gym, in on the record book for the 2024 season for the Umaeus athletic teams? What's going to show? Is it going to be blank or is it going to show something? And we only have it this year. We don't got it next. So month of October is looking tough. [00:51:00] Speaker B: But our team is also looking tough. [00:51:02] Speaker A: All of them are looking tough. They're looking really good. [00:51:05] Speaker B: Yes. [00:51:05] Speaker A: We got some banner games possibly coming up, and we have a tough, tough road and season, month of October for the volleyball team, soccer team, cross country. [00:51:16] Speaker B: And this is the time when you need to be rolling, and they are. So that's what's super exciting. [00:51:22] Speaker A: Got the momentum. [00:51:22] Speaker B: Super exciting. [00:51:23] Speaker A: We got that momentum. So let's go. Nothing else to really add to that. Just really looking forward to region and conference. Really making. It's kind of blurry right now, but the shape is going to form as we go further into October of where we stand in conference and ultimately in the nation. In the nation so currently unranked in all sports, but cross country team receive one vote. [00:51:49] Speaker B: Our dogs for soccer. [00:51:50] Speaker A: Soccer did receive a vote Monday, so. [00:51:52] Speaker B: Check out Monday is when the new coach is pulled, comes out. [00:51:54] Speaker A: Yep. This is true. But lot to show you today. I think we're at almost to an hour of an episode. Andy Fessler is happy. I'm sure he is. Maybe cut this in half, you know, and be like. And save it for the. Have it not just be the appetizer or the entree, but the dessert. Have it. All of it. Right? [00:52:15] Speaker B: Say cross country. I'll listen to the cross country portion during breakfast, into the volleyball section during lunch, and then soccer. [00:52:22] Speaker A: There we go. Dinner. A lot to go over, honestly. There's two episodes in one. But sorry. We're gearing up. We're just gearing up for October. It's gonna be a blast. It's gonna be tough. A lot of blood, sweat and teals, tears, and hopefully more things like this. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Nationals, baby. [00:52:37] Speaker A: Mmm. Oh, this is exciting, Matt. I'm looking forward to it, dude. Ooh. But thank you guys for listening us, listening to us, making us part of your day. Like we said before, we appreciate you all your love and support. Being able to listen to a long episode like this. Give us feedback, give us love. We appreciate it. We adore you guys. Thank you so much. Make sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, wherever you listen to us. Continue to spread the love. Share it, pass it on to others. Have people come. We had a great alumni homecoming weekend. [00:53:08] Speaker B: Matt had a fantastic weekend. We had almost 500 people combined on campus, which was awesome, exciting. And Shane, what do we have? Starting tonight? [00:53:15] Speaker A: Again, we have discover Emmaus weekend. Matt, let's be great. [00:53:20] Speaker B: So if you can't make it to this one, which registration is closed, so you're not gonna make it to this one. Come in the spring, in march. [00:53:26] Speaker A: So this is what, your 21st one, something like that. [00:53:29] Speaker B: 20Th, I think. [00:53:30] Speaker A: 20Th do for Matt. [00:53:31] Speaker B: And this is your 17th. [00:53:33] Speaker A: Give him a. Give him an eagle or something. [00:53:35] Speaker B: And this is Shane's 17th. [00:53:39] Speaker A: Don't say that. [00:53:40] Speaker B: Crazy. [00:53:40] Speaker A: Don't say that. [00:53:41] Speaker B: No. [00:53:42] Speaker A: Cause we've been like. We've overlapped. Come on, man. Well, same thing, but with that said, matt, you got anything else to share? [00:53:48] Speaker B: Yep. Shane, it's a great day to be an emmaus eagle. [00:53:52] Speaker A: PTNA.