Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: And we see that with two of our teams being ranked in the top ten in the nation this week.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: Eagles.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: And welcome to the official Emmaus athletic podcast in the nest. I'm your co host, Shane Douglas. Here with my co host, Matthew Townlinson.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: Hi.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: How you doing, Matt?
[00:00:27] Speaker B: I'm great, Shane. How are you doing?
[00:00:29] Speaker A: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Matt and I are fresh out of the car from a road trip.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: We literally got back to campus and got out of the car and walked right into the car.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: We were texting will, our engineer. We were like, dude, we're there, 310. Like, let's get it done. Boom. Whatever.
Potty break right here. We're going boom, boom. So we had time to debrief a little bit in the car. Not too much. I got a little tired. Matt was driving, but, um, we're here. Yeah, man, it's a. It's been an exciting week for Emmaus sports, but even just for Emmaus itself. Matt, right here, you're representing discover Emmaus weekend 2024.
Tied. Thank you. We tied everybody. We had, we had. We tied the school record for most.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Doers attending a fall semester.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: Do like specific to fall due.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: We had 88, which is tied for the most.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: Tied for the most ever. Ever.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: So at least that's recorded that we know.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: This is true. This is true. And last spring, we had over 200 people on campus, I believe, 100, 6170. Being doers himself with another 30 to 40 parents and youth leaders. So, man, it's been exciting. It's an exciting, super exciting. I mean, we've mentioned this before in the podcast, it's an exciting time to be in Emmaus, Eagles. An exciting time to be here at Emmaus, either, if that's for athletics, academics, whatever it may be. It is so exciting to be here with so much growth opportunities, being a student for. If it's. If it's in ministry, if it's in your profession, if it's for athletics, it's awesome. And we see that with two of our teams being ranked in the top ten in the nation this week.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: Eagles.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: Exciting times.
Man, if Eric was still here, he would have killed me for doing that, because these are expensive.
We are ranked. We are ranked. Matthew chain.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: And guess what? With soccer, this is the highest we've ever been ranked ever. Ever for in CCA. And what are we ranked?
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Number five.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Number five in the nation.
Five. Holy cow, Shane. So we did the first time we've been ranked since November 1920.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: No. Well, we are ranked earlier this season.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: But that's the highest. We've been ranked. This is true because the highest, we were ranked that year, Washington nine or eight, it was 8th.
And this year, and now we're, I.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: Think the high, the highest ever or the highest this week. Year.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: The highest ever.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: The highest ever, I believe is like, like seven.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: It was 8th.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: 8Th.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: I was like trying to, I was trying to go back and.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: That's right. I saw you did a good recording. See, that was a guess. I did a great job guessing and I was optimistic with that.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: But Shane, that's awesome.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: This is really cool.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Exciting.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: We have Barclay to still worry about, which we'll get to fourth. We don't worry about them until conference play, literally our last game of the season. We talked about that last episode, is it could possibly be a banner game pending the outcome. The Manhattan matchup that we have the day before. So could be a banner game for regular season title going into conference play a week before.
So we'll get to that. But Barclays also ranked. We got to worry about that opponent. And then, of course, Manhattan's always tough face is tough.
And we just pulled away from a strong victory the other day, which we'll get to against Maranatha. So. But volleyball, what is volleyball ranked?
[00:03:56] Speaker B: 8Th, 8th, 8th in the nation.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: We've been telling you guys. We've been telling you. Just wait, just wait. Two years ago, this volleyball team didn't win a game and now they're ranked.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: 8Th in the nation.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: 8Th.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: And we, I mean, two years ago, two years ago, we were optimist. We're always optimistic for the most part. We were very optimistic.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: We got here, we're paying.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: Like you said, the fruits of their labor are showing. 8th in the nation, undefeated in regionals and the regional plagues. Use me. Undefeated in conference.
Crazy. Twelve. What? They're twelve and two this season.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Yeah. That's weird. We were looking at the record on the way here is volleyball is twelve and two, soccer is eight. Two and one is this.
[00:04:44] Speaker B: Cross country guys are the second fastest time in the nation.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Let's not even get across country.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Yeah, like you said, like top three for time to be an amazing top.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Three for both men and women's. Cross country, 5th. 5th for women's.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: So top five, we'll take it. But top three for men's.
We didn't even get our correct time.
So we're currently, it shows we are third.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Yeah, but with the current time, we are actually seven minutes ahead of second.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: But what a coach Dora already tell.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: You he said that? Just forgot to.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Well, no, but like. Like that we can just be a little sneaky.
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Oh yeah, we will sneaky. Cuz they're not gonna realize that we're six minutes faster, seven minutes faster than.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: We'll just show up to regional, show up to nationals and surprise hosting. Good surprise. Which we'll get to next week's episode. We can't take away too much fun for next week's episode.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: But we do have regionals that we are hosting here and it's gonna be fun. We're gonna get some more information about that for you guys, for any parents or alum that are watching this podcast so that you can be prepared to come support our Mas Eagles cross country team. But no, cross country is killing it, man. I guess it's like we hyped up a volleyball and soccer being ranked and it's awesome. But it's an exciting time to be a mass eagle with discovery, mace weekend, homecoming weekend, all both being successful week after week, literally weeks after each other.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: The campus was packed. It was back to back weeks. Like, it was crazy awesome.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: It was great. And we just see that falling into everything. Athletics, which we talk about, but academics, the ministry. I've never seen a student body more on fire for a lord here in my nine years.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: You're.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: You've been here much longer than ever before. And it's so awesome.
Like, being in enrollment and not. Not really taking credit for anything, but being in a Roman. That's where we get our satisfaction, is the students that we're bringing in. And let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, for everyone who is watching this, the students we bring in are quality. Like, if you send your student here, we love them, we love your kid, because they have made an impact on the campus here and people's lives and our lives. And we are so appreciative of it. And it's just exciting to have them here at this time. With seeing the growth of Emmaus itself all around and all aspects, we only talk about athletics, but in all aspects, there's so much growth, it's amazing. And your student, your kid is involved in that is an impact, is impactful.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: And we love it. We love them and we love it. So that's like, one of my favorite things is during grad is during senior chapel of all things, is reading the names of the graduates and saying, just seeing where they started their freshman year to where they are now, and it's just like, man, the Lord works.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: And we get to see it being behind the scenes, helping these, these students come to Emmaus and seeing how far they've come, it's great. I mean, I was a goofball when I first started, and, you know, look at me now.
Either way, though, no eagle. It is an awesome time to be involved here, to be active here at Emmaus, especially with athletics. And what a cross country do this weekend. This last weekend.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: Matthew Shane. Well, cross country was at a race last Saturday in Cedar Rapids. This course is a pretty flat course. So it's known as a fast race. So a lot of. Cause it's so flat. So a lot of runners go all out in this race because they know that they can pr. Because it's flat.
Speaking of that p of pr ing, we had 13 runners between the guy men and the women race.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: And let me guess, let me guess. How many pr'd.
[00:08:35] Speaker B: How many pr of the 13?
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Maybe three.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:08:38] Speaker A: Three is really good.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Three is really good. And I'd go a little higher.
Seven, a little higher. Eight, way higher.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Nine higher.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: 1313 chain. All 13 runners pr it was truly amazing looking at the guys.
[00:08:58] Speaker A: That was Green Lantern.
[00:08:58] Speaker B: That was Green Lantern. Ben Driscoll.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: He had green Lantern key yard.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: And he broke the school record again.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: Again.
I feel like there's a better, like, sound effect.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: Whoa. So he set, he reset his record that he broke by over a minute and 24 seconds. So he, he ran 27 minutes and 53 seconds. Matthew Hanselman ran 29 minutes, 51 seconds. Sam Stapley ran 29 minutes, 54 seconds. So we had three runners under 30.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: Minutes, which is so important when it.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Comes to Vander Krawl. Nationals ran 31 minutes and 7 seconds pr by over two minutes. Daniel Pr ed 31 minutes and 37 seconds. Dogs and then Daniel Schilt Randhenne 34 minutes and 8 seconds.
[00:09:52] Speaker A: Race, first race, first k ever is pretty good. Yes, it's pretty good and very good to speak on Daniel's half. I mean, he taught. He talks for himself enough. But to speak for him in high school, his five k time, I believe that's what they ran in high, is very similar to Benjamin's five.
So you give. That's what I'm saying is you give Daniel some time to run with the team to, to, to get into shape. Offseason, we're in season. We're pretty far into season. But offseason, if he, if he continues to run into next season and get into shape, he should be a person to watch out for.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: You know, that will Kuranda will his.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: Back next race, he's running.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: Running.
[00:10:37] Speaker A: Next race for regionals.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Keeping out for that.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: He's running.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: He's running for regionals. Let's go.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: You should have saved that. You should have saved that for next week. Oh, I'm excited for Will.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: So then the women.
Six K, not a five k was a six k. Yep. Sounds like, though, six k is going to eventually become their race, the average five k will go away, but six k. Anna Coniglio PR 26 minutes, 6 seconds. Kate Janssen PR 27 minutes, 22 seconds. Augie Christensen, 28 minutes, 10 seconds. Riley Ralph, 32 minutes, 30 seconds. Anna Lee Sweeney in her first race, 32 minutes, 33 seconds. Bria Tuttle, 33 minutes, 15 seconds. And Carolyn Rogers in her first rake race back 30 712, which is awesome. So what a weekend it was for the runners, 13. Runners, 13 prs, new school record set again. It's a great time. And with the guys, like we said, their race time, second fastest in the nation behind the four time national champion, defending national champion, Bob Jones.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: I don't want to take any hope. I don't want to take any hope away, but Bob Jones, they. They're very good. Really good.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: But we are right there. We are like, like, legitimately. Our guys are right there with them.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Yeah. But sadly, when it comes to nationals, it's not about your overall.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Yeah. You can't be like, well, my first race, I ran this.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: It's like, not finish. It's what you raised there, the number you finish, which we'll talk more about. So we'll get more into the national rules for cross country as good to it, but it's for everyone who's listening, support the cross country team, the Girardi's.
[00:12:22] Speaker B: They are doing amazing.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: They've been one of the most consistent teams we've had since, honestly, since they started three years ago. Yeah. But, I mean, I mean, I can't think of a season where our cross country team hasn't really been in it. Now, for sure, this is the first year we've had the men's team, but the women's team has always been in it. They've always been competing.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: Except last year. I don't think they qualified last year, but the year before they did. Two years before they did.
[00:12:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Yeah. But we had runners every, every rate, literally every first race of every year, they've had runner. They've had individuals that have qualified.
[00:12:59] Speaker A: Here's what's also crazy. Is that.
What?
[00:13:04] Speaker B: That's crazy.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Kate has always. Kate Janssen has always been the runner, like, the. The lead runner for our team, and Anna Coniglio has made a massive jump up this year to. To match her.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: She had a phenomenal freshman year. Yeah, she had a little rocky sophomore year, but her. This her junior year.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: She's back in freshman form.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: She is. She's killing it. Better. Yeah, she's killing it. So with Anna and Kate leading the pack for our women's team. And with Augie christensen, who's been a fantastic addition for first year students. And the women's team is. Is on fire more than ever before.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: They have a lot of potential. Yeah.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: And then the men's team, first year, having a men's team, full team, second.
[00:13:49] Speaker B: Time in the nation.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: They're killing it.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Come on. They're doing so well.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: And again, they're one of the closest teams to a family dynamic than a lot of the other sports. Not saying. Not taking away from volleyball or soccer or basketball, but cross country is different. After every race, I feel. I think they go over to Matthew Hanselman's house and Alice at Hanselman's house and brother. Sister. And they have food. They eat. They. I think they made tacos last week. Nice. I think they also made some pie. I don't know. Wow.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: I'm coming over next week.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: I know. That's what I'm saying. Come on. We talk about you either way, a lot of excitement going on with cross country. We're super excited for them, and it's just getting better because they're taking a break this weekend from a race. And really focusing on regionals and nationals. So regionals next week, and then nationals two weeks in November through November, I think. Or last weekend of October.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: Well, this is best because the week off. Prep for national. Prep for regionals. Excuse me. And then they have either two or three weeks. Where they can get healed up, get ready to go and compete for a national championship.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: Where's cross country? Oh, yeah. Middle of November. November 13 to the 15th is national championship for cross country.
[00:15:06] Speaker B: So, in Indiana.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Yep. It'll probably be a little chilly either way.
Show us a love for cross country.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: We do.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: If you're listening, your student, make sure to give cross country runner a high five. When you see them. Tell them good job, congratulations, and keep that hype up.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: Right, Jenica.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: There you go. Yeah. Jennica. Goodness gracious. She always attacks, Matt. She's like, you better talk about cross country.
[00:15:30] Speaker B: They haven't raised in three weeks.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I know. I know.
Either way.
Yes. Lot of excitement for volleyball.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness, Shane.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: Tell me about it, dude.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: All right, so we had three regional games since our last episode where we had Friday night. They played Great Lakes Christian college and one 30. And then they traveled up to Maranatha for a try match. And they beat Maranatha 30 and they really badly beat Kuiper three to zero. So that put them.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: You don't need to add that really badly.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: You don't need kind of what it was in music scores, but that's fine. So I keeps them undefeated in the region. They go to Grace on Friday, big game. If they beat, which grace is also undefeated in the nation and they are also ranked 9th. We are undefeated in regionals. Excuse me. And we are ranked 8th. So this is a huge game. Big girls coming up.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: I think the huge volleyball team knew coach Hannah, coach Megan knew Grace was gonna be the. Because they were Lakes, we're gonna last year. Yeah. Grace and Great Lakes, we're gonna be the competition regionals. That is at regionals. And it's gonna be one of us three that go to nationals. That win regionals and go to nationals. Now, if we continue our run and start playing and continue to play very well, who knows about the bidding? Who knows if Ozark will take a bid because they're hosting.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: And who knows if we will, right? But you always know you are guaranteed a spot if you win regionals. And it is doable for a volleyball team.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: Completely doable.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: So this is a huge weekend for both volleyball and soccer as they are both traveling to Michigan to play against grace and soccer. Also Great Lakes, which two huge regional matchups for them, but we'll get to that shortly. Volleyball.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Volleyball. Man, they, they've made a run, like we said, twelve and two. Crazy. And the two teams they've lost to, or like twelve and four. Excuse me. Because the two teams that they lost to at our level are ranked, I think like third and 6th or something. And then the two teams that they lost to, the other two teams are NAI schools. So also, huge accomplishment over the weekend for volleyball. Michelle Striley got her 1000th assist of her career, which puts her third all time in women's volleyball. Automaeus for assist.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: Thousand two years is crazy.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: That's really crazy. She's a sophomore, everybody.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: She's a sophomore still with what, six games plus tournaments to go, she's got, she can make a big dent into that.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: The thing is, is like all of our, all of our women volleyball players, really, they feed off each other. They work really well with one another with their skillset, the giftings that they have and and then the way that coach Hannah and coach Megan are able to really use that and adapt it to their scheme and strategy, it works very well. And they're just going to continue to grow, hopefully to get some, some new additions in the spring or in the fall. And it's exciting.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: It's kind of scary.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: Always exciting times. It is always exciting times.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: So keep it out this weekend because this weekend will be huge and I'm proud. If they beat Grace, which they should be. Grace.
[00:18:58] Speaker A: We'll see. We'll see that.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: We don't know they'll be undefeated in the region, but the volleyball region is doing power ratings. But also. Yeah, we would, we have and would have the most wins. So we'll have the power ratings should, we should be the highest empower rating. So we should have the one seat regardless.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: Speaking of that, like, in theory, we beat grace. We are undefeated in regional play and we are, we might have the best record or if not tied, if not close to the best record with pending Grace, how they finish the season and how we finish the season with, with conference play, etcetera.
You would think. You would think, and I think a valid argument that we would power rankings would push us as the number one seed. But you never know. That's why we have this podcast. Yeah. To be optimistic and then behind the scenes to scream, whoops, don't, don't.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: Sorry. Forgot where I was for a second.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Save it for a road trip. But I know. So we'll see what, we'll see how the schedule falls. We'll see how the rankings fall when it comes to regional play, but great things. But it's going to be already exciting for the girls team or women's team, for volleyball.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: Last regional game, and the rest of the games are conference games.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it makes sense because we haven't played Manhattan yet, and that's gonna be a real. I can't wait for that game plan. Playing against Manhattan is really gonna show.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Where we stand because I ranked 6th right now.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: Yeah. But, man. Lost to the number one and two seed in nation.
[00:20:30] Speaker B: Four three. Sorry.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: Three three is about. Yeah, boy.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: Number one.
[00:20:34] Speaker A: Boys is now number one.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: Bob Jones is number four.
[00:20:38] Speaker A: Yeah. So Manhattan, which is very surprising. Well, Bob Jones took down Manhattan last.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Year in the championship.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:20:45] Speaker B: National championship.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: And the boys came out of nowhere.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: Yeah. And they're very good.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: So we'll see. We can talk more about those teams as we get closer to, hopefully a national run and. But then also with conference play with Manhattan. So to our women's team, it's exciting. Again, you see them in a hallway, students, give them a high five. Give them. Give them some hype, because it's gonna be a big weekend trip to see where we stand in regionals. Because, honestly, you win against grace this weekend. You cannot not give us the one scene.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: Right.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: You have to. You have to. I don't care. Power rankings are dumb. Not saying whoever's running them is the formula is dumb. It just doesn't make sense. No, because one at our level, you're not gonna sit down and watch every single game and, you know, or even travel all the games to see, like, I. Who is truly the best based off who they're playing.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: Well, especially, like, how the point system goes. And, like, you get extra points for being d three s. It's like, I'm just gonna schedule all the worst d three s out there and lots of power.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: See, that's the thing.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Why.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: Why even. Why seed off a power rankings when you can seed off a head to head? Which. Head to head?
[00:21:50] Speaker B: What soccer is doing head to head.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I know you're trying to transition, but head to head, like, power rankings, like, I wonder who's the best.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: In, like, the top five. When you're trying to pick an automatic bid.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:22:03] Speaker B: But when it's, like, regional seating, like.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Because we don't play Bob Jones or boys.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: No.
[00:22:07] Speaker A: So how are they supposed to decide?
[00:22:09] Speaker B: Right.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: But the thing is, is, like, oh, I'm gonna put. I'm all. You use power rankings to decide who ranks in region instead of. So I guess to see who's better, because, like, they play head to head.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: Right. You beat one team and you already jumped. Because, like, I was last year in soccer. Like, we know somehow we got the number one seed in regionals and soccer last year, and we weren't.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: We could say we're better than Moody and Maranatha. We beat him twice.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: Mm hmm.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Right. We just beat Great Lakes, given it was a tough game. Some. Some. Some sets pretty close, but still, you know, beat them in three, and then Kuiper handed them an l two. So you can argue.
No, it's a fact. We're better than them.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: And we're not. No pride asides, just record wise, we are better.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: So we should have a higher seat.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: Plus, it'd be different if we were winning, if we. If we were undefeated in the region in five sets.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:02] Speaker B: Everything's been in three sets.
[00:23:03] Speaker A: I'm honestly just, you know, being a dead horse right now. There's no. No reason to, you know, get riled up because nothing has happened yet.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: But we'll find out soon enough.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: There's one year. There's one year, ladies and gentlemen. Our basketball head coach had to travel down to southern Iowa to meet two other basketball coaches where they all tied in the regular season and flip a coin. For who?
For seating. Flip a coin? Essentially. Rock, paper, scissors. Who's gonna be the one seed? I'm throwing paper.
[00:23:38] Speaker B: It was stupid.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: That was, um, my senior year.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: It was your senior.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: It was a good team, actually.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: We got a banner from it. We got.
[00:23:46] Speaker B: Changed the rule after that year. They did, because we should have been the outright champions. But if the world they changed, we would have been.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: Yo, I'm on this DC kick on.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Me, too. I got some, too.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: Diet Coke, baby. Oh, man, it's such.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: Oh, Shane, you're drinking a pancheros.
[00:24:01] Speaker A: I can drink from pancheros. Chipotle's is better, but, yeah, it don't matter to me.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Exciting times for volleyball.
[00:24:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, volleyball. Great job, ladies. Give them a high five when you see them. Thank you for the support and love. I love the student section. You guys are.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: Keep.
[00:24:16] Speaker A: Keep doing what you're doing.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: Cheers.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: But stop chanting nice serve after every.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: Serve because not every serve is a nice serve.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: Also, save it. If you. If you use it every time, it's not as cool. It gets repetitive and annoying. But you guys are doing a great job. Keep it up. But that's my only critique. Only critique.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: Volleyball, next upcoming game Friday, huge game against Grace, like we said. And then next week, we got a try match against faith. And then Calvary is coming up, so. Faith in Calvary, next Tuesday at home, games are at two and six.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: Two and six. Looking forward to those games.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Your lord, please help the live stream to be working next week. Amen.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: It's been tough this year. Wi Fi issues. But those should all be fixed around basketball season, if not next year, for.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: Sure, they better be fixed.
[00:25:03] Speaker A: So lots of conference play coming up and excited for the women's volleyball team. And then with men's soccer. They've been dogging, dude. They've been dogging. You try to transition earlier. I forget what the trans. It was a good transition. I don't remember something like that, but ranked five, ranked fifth in the nation, highest ever.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Dogs.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Exciting. We'll see how that, you know, plays out when it comes to playing. Barclay, who's, I think should be ranked higher than where they're at now. I think they're at eight.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Ranked high above them.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Yeah. But Barclay looks really good this year. That's the game. That's my circle game of the season. But we talked about volleyball going to Michigan to play grace this weekend. Volleyball is following suit to play Great Lakes and grace. Who are the top dogs in? I say dogs a lot, but they are the top teams in our region. If we want to go to nationals, our soccer, our men's soccer team has to beat grace. They have to beat grace. If that's in a regular season, okay. If it's not, you have to beat them in the regional tournament. Most likely grace will make it to the championship. But this year, Matt, we talked about this before.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: It's been a weird wheel play.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: It's been very balanced. Very balanced. And I would argue that when we play against teams that are very well disciplined, more disciplined than us, not necessarily more skilled, but more disciplined. We struggle. I think Spurgeon's a very well disciplined team. We struggled, we won, we struggled. Maranatha. Very, very, very well disciplined team. We struggled, we tied. We tied and won. We won with yesterday or two days ago, Tuesday, one nil here. Jack Fishfield. Awesome. Second time in school history we have beaten them. And we also have, I think, the longest.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Shutout, shut out streak in a long time.
[00:26:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Seven.
I think we're at seven clean sheets. Someone told me seven. Could be six.
[00:27:01] Speaker B: We have seven total. We're at six.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Okay, fair enough.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: So we might be the most clean sheets in the season.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: It has to be. I mean, seven is a lot.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: So shout out to that. The back line to Tucker Cappas.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: Mmm.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: Backline has been shifted around a little bit. A lot. I know. They moved Bennett Criner in the back line.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: Evans had to help build some injury from the back.
[00:27:22] Speaker A: Evans been hurt.
James has been hurt. But then moving Carlos up, putting, you have Caleb Hunter, you got JD Miller, you got Carl. Freshman JD Miller. Also freshman dog. So.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: But, yeah, I mean, look at it. I mean, coming off this weekend with the, the two games we played, you know, 60 win against Oak Hills.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: Mm hmm.
Is a respect series.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: Respectable, obviously. They could have put in more, but they didn't. They missed two pks, which is really sad, frustrating, but it's. We weren't going to put 15 on them. No, we probably could have, but we weren't going to. We played a lot of our substitutions or subsurface majority of the game.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: Like Eli was in goal all 90.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: Minutes that Tucker didn't play at all. So you can't say Tucker had every clean sheet because he didn't. Eli had one.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: Six of seven. But Jake Matt, five goals and the Carlos first career goal.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: The Carlos.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: The Carlos.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:17] Speaker B: But exciting.
[00:28:17] Speaker A: Also, what was Jake this last week?
[00:28:19] Speaker B: Also, because going into the game against Maranatha, Jake Matt received the NCCAA Division two men's soccer offensive player of the week.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Student athlete of the week goes to Jake Matt. So awesome. That's our goal.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: Six goals in the last two games. Those two games that week, seven in the last three games.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Second player for our men's soccer team to receive this award this year, Tucker Cappas being won earlier this year.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: We got the defense award.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: Yep. So, man, this team, they look good.
Very skillful. Probably one of the most skillful teams we've had.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: And, I mean, it's crazy with.
[00:28:58] Speaker A: I don't know, I don't know.
[00:28:59] Speaker B: 540 minutes of shutout soccer consecutive.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: It's tough.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: Last six games, we are 600:14 goals. We've scored zero goals.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: Our only losses this season have been to D three schools with bigger programs which are ripping in. Northwestern.
[00:29:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:16] Speaker A: Same.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Northwestern is. Is in CCA division one.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: Which is crazy.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: So, yeah, there it is. Yeah. But true.
[00:29:23] Speaker B: But what a great game it was on Tuesday against Maranatha. It was having stressful, but wearing our jerseys. Beat them. Jake got his 12th goal of the year to win 10.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Which is, dude.
[00:29:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: To stay undefeated in regionals, too.
[00:29:40] Speaker A: It's true. What a game. And then we go into this regional matchup crazy this weekend and hopefully we can walk away being undefeated in regionals and looking at. Looking at this last. Looking at this last game against Maranatha and honestly, the whole season, the boys have done very well of really sharpening our defensive skills.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: Now, there are moments. There are a lot of moments that are scary, but they're able to.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: There was. There was probably two shots that were like, oh, but, man, we have. We have Tucker cappas in goal and.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: That is really good. I mean, not taking anything away from Tucker Kappas, but it's a lot more than him as well with, you know, having that back line with Seth, Carl.
[00:30:25] Speaker B: Bennett, two freshmen back there that are vital to the.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Caleb Hunter. Caleb Hunter had a rocky game against Maranatha, but scrappy, as always, hurt scrappy in a respectful way. He did, but he's still always a consistent player and you need him on the field. If you have him on the field for 90 minutes, you keep him on that field for 90 minutes.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Has one mode.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: It's go.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: No, it's fully go. He does not stop.
[00:30:51] Speaker A: And then Josh, Matt had a lot of.
He was a vocal leader the other day. He did. He probably had the most energy. He played a full 90, but he had the most energy out of all those guys. And him and Jake both were playing the entire field. They were playing the entire field.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: I mean, I feel like there were times where Jake got a stop, like, deflected a shot on the our side, and then next thing I know, like 10 seconds later, he is dribbling down the field on, like, a fast break, and it's like, man.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: And his shot was outside the 18. It wasn't a banger. It wasn't a banger, but it was a good shot. It was a good shot. He caught the goalie slacking a little bit, hanging too far to the right. So he kicks it to the other side of the post.
The goalie's right, not his right. So his left go a little too far over to Jake's left, kicks it to the far post on the right side and just squeaks it in. And it was great. It was a great, great vision from Jake there. And that's what you get when you bring in high quality players who want to make an impact here, not just on the soccer field, but, you know, in leadership. He's also in the community.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: He's also on the student union.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Yes. So shout out to Jake. Shout out to the mats. Louie. Louie doesn't get 90 minutes typically. He's a winger, so they, they gotta run a lot. But he puts in good minutes every time he's in.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: Shout out to mister. Misses Matt, too.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: It's true. That's true. We love you guys, so.
But, no, our team, they're looking really good. I don't. It's like, it's hard to. It's hard to see. It's very confusing, especially with men's soccer and women's volleyball, of where we stand in conference and regionals. I feel like we know more about where our women's volleyball team stands in regionals than men's soccer and anything. But when it comes to conference, where do we stand for women's volleyball, men's soccer? Everybody, like, is beating each other. We're beating them so far. So far.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: So far.
[00:32:43] Speaker A: But it's tough to get a information about our opponent. When they beat a team we tied against or the team we beat, lose.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: To a team we beat, whatever it is.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: And then they. And then they beat a team that, like Orlando, that played really hard against us, but they smacked them. So I don't know, it's this really. You can't really judge games off that. It's tougher at our level to, to get a good feel about every team because, one, everything changes every year. You're playing college, and we say it every year. You don't think about what you got next year.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: The time is now.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: Now volleyball. For women's volleyball, you can be more set with your players since it's a smaller bunch for men's soccer, a lot more people, a lot more moving pieces. So it is also very difficult. But who knows what's going to happen with the women's volleyball team, the players of how the lord leads in their life. Maybe they transfer. Maybe they want to be done with volleyball, focus more on other areas. Same with soccer. So we don't know what we got next year. We know what we have this year. And let's get it. And we have a women's volleyball team that can go to nationals. We have a men's soccer team that can go to nationals. We have a cross country team going to nationals that's gonna, that is ranked, that have speedsters.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: I mean, playing soccer in Pensacola, Florida in November would be kind of nice.
[00:34:10] Speaker A: It's gonna be crazy. And it's this week. October is crazy.
[00:34:15] Speaker B: Is gonna show us where we stand.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Where we stand for men's soccer.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: I have full confident we can walk out this weekend. Two o. Yeah.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: I mean, including women's volleyball, too.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: With anything can happen this week.
[00:34:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: 021-12-0101 I'm a little nest.
[00:34:29] Speaker A: I'm a little less nervous for women's volleyball.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, me too.
[00:34:32] Speaker A: But also mostly because of the reputation of Grace. When it comes to soccer. Grace Christian is really good. When it comes to soccer, Great Lakes is always, always competitive in pretty much every sport they have. Yep. So it's gonna be, ah, it's a huge weekend.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: So you guys better teams?
[00:34:50] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:34:50] Speaker B: Tune in.
[00:34:51] Speaker A: Tune in. Go to our, go to our website. So find those links to watch our volleyball and soccer matches also for. You can find them on Grace's website. You can go to their, what you typically want to do is go to their athletic website, see if they have a fan zone or go to the box score, see if they have a live stream option. You can always go to YouTube, search up the school's name, the sport, maybe even who they're playing against, which would be us. And sometimes, most of the time, we also post the link Grace does, or.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: At least last year, they facebook live streamed all of their games. So if you don't see their live stream on YouTube, go check Facebook.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: So look for grace and great lakes this weekend. Grace will be Friday for women's volleyball, Saturday for soccer. Saturday for soccer, Friday for soccer. And the thing is, we're just talking about everything. So is balanced. Maranatha tied against grace one one.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: Beat grace 10 and then lost to grace.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Yes. Right. Cause they tied against who? They tied against. They tied against Kuiper.
[00:35:53] Speaker B: Tied against Kuiper. Tied against grace one one.
[00:35:55] Speaker A: Yes. So Maranatha beat Grace one nil on their home field. On Maranatha's home field. They go to, they travel to grace few days later. Yeah. And they lose 30.
[00:36:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: So what is going. Who knows? It is really tough to play at grace.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: It is.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: It's really tough. Their field is a little narrow.
Their fan base is loud.
There's a lot of woods around it too. But that doesn't, I mean, might be nice to look at, but it's tough to play a grace. It is.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: It's not for city slickers.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: No, I guess so now. So we'll see how the boys do. I'm excited for it though. But yeah, keep up with our instagram, our YouTube. Follow us, subscribe.
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[00:37:42] Speaker B: Shane? It's a great day to be an Emmaus Eagle ptn.
