Speaker 1: Welcome to your CSU postgame report. It was more than
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, more than one hundred, more than one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten and went to PKS and CSU comes out
Speaker 1: on top INPKS over the University of West Florida, advancing
Speaker 1: to the Final four next weekend at the sports Plex
Speaker 1: at Matthews and we find out who the opponents are
Speaker 1: in our conversation coming up with CSU head coach Jantlick.
Speaker 1: We also catch up with Anna La Barbara who got
Speaker 1: the frame five clinching PK in.
Speaker 2: The back of the night.
Speaker 1: We also catch up with keeper Heidi Harris and break
Speaker 1: it all down as we go through and get you
Speaker 1: ready for the semifinals in Division two. Let's kick things
Speaker 1: off of our conversation with the head coach from Columbus State, Jantlick.
Speaker 1: Time for some postgame down in Columbus. It was a
Speaker 1: long afternoon, but CSU comes out on top, winning not
Speaker 1: after ninety minutes, after one hundred minutes, not after one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten, but after one hundred and ten in penalties.
Speaker 1: And starting us off here with the CSU postgame head
Speaker 1: coach Jantleck, have you caught your breath yet?
Speaker 3: Sir, No, there's a lot to swallow here. It's you know,
Speaker 3: it's a quick turnaround. I don't know if we leave Tuesday,
Speaker 3: we leave Wednesday. The only positive is I know we're
Speaker 3: getting in a bus and I don't have to book
Speaker 3: any flights like I had to the last two times
Speaker 3: we went to the Final four, so there's a little
Speaker 3: bit more you know, ease and things. It's a five
Speaker 3: hour trip to Charlotte, so you know, we've got some
Speaker 3: time to kind of figure things out.
Speaker 1: And it looks like it's going to be your friends
Speaker 1: from Pomona that will be in your side of the
Speaker 1: bracket that will be your opponents. They were up to
Speaker 1: nil as you and I are talking, and time was
Speaker 1: running out on the right hand side of the bracket.
Speaker 1: But let's get into the match. And this one was
Speaker 1: pretty much what we anticipated. It was going to be
Speaker 1: one of those fifteen round heavyweight fights, and I just
Speaker 1: dated myself with that reference and stats going through at
Speaker 1: fifteen eight, you had the advantage in shot seven to
Speaker 1: three shots on target, fifteen corners. West Florida had ten
Speaker 1: on the day five yellow cards four went to West Florida,
Speaker 1: thirty fouls seventeen went to West Florida. When you look
Speaker 1: at what happened, let's take it a half at a time.
Speaker 1: What happened in that first forty five that sticks in
Speaker 1: your brain.
Speaker 3: You know, I think anytime you play a West Florida
Speaker 3: who you know, credit to Joe bart Lynskey and what
Speaker 3: he's done in his career there and the amount of
Speaker 3: regional championships he's won and the consistency, I think, you
Speaker 3: know you're going to be in a dogfight. And so
Speaker 3: you know, the game was back and forth, and you know,
Speaker 3: both team had some chances, and you know, in the end,
Speaker 3: you know, disappointing that we didn't score. You know, we've
Speaker 3: scored in every game this year, and you know this
Speaker 3: will go down as the one game we didn't score in.
Speaker 3: So we got to go back to work on Monday
Speaker 3: and get in front of the goal and score goals.
Speaker 3: I do want to correct you, though, John, they actually
Speaker 3: receded for the final four. Okay, don't know who our
Speaker 3: opponent is until all the games finished, and they have
Speaker 3: four teams, got it. Actually look at it and go, okay,
Speaker 3: who's the top team? And one will play four and
Speaker 3: two will play three.
Speaker 1: So we don't know all right, So let me as
Speaker 1: we're going through this in real time, So as you
Speaker 1: and I are discussing what's going on, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at I'm gonna hit the word that
Speaker 1: says bracket, and I'm gonna look at winners and see
Speaker 1: what we've got going here. So Franklin Pierce advances, you,
Speaker 1: you advance, Minnesota State advances, and cal Poly Pomona advances.
Speaker 2: Okay, cal Poly.
Speaker 1: Was a one, Minnesota State was a two beating a three.
Speaker 1: Franklin Pierce is a two, and you're a one. So
Speaker 1: that's the info one.
Speaker 3: I don't know that we'll find out, but listen, at
Speaker 3: this point, you're going we're one of the one percent
Speaker 3: that's still playing in Division one, Division two or Division three.
Speaker 4: So super happy.
Speaker 1: There you go, Final four, heading to Matthew's coming up.
Speaker 1: That's the next stage here in Division two. Forty five
Speaker 1: minutes in the books. In that second forty five, when
Speaker 1: was the last time you show up? We saw a
Speaker 1: shot hit the inside of the post, spin out and
Speaker 1: not go in it, and spin out back into the
Speaker 1: field of play, because you had that and it was
Speaker 1: almost one nil.
Speaker 2: But it spins out after hitting the post.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, again, credit to West Florida and what
Speaker 3: they do and the brand of soccer they play. They
Speaker 3: make it really tough to allow good looks at goal,
Speaker 3: and you know, and.
Speaker 4: Their goalkeeper is very, very good.
Speaker 3: Their back line is solid, so we didn't get any
Speaker 3: easy looks. But you know, in the end, gosh, we'll
Speaker 3: walk with a with a dub and I think it
Speaker 3: goes down as a tie. Actually in college soccer's doesn't
Speaker 3: even go down as a win. But God bless America,
Speaker 3: I wish it would.
Speaker 1: You know, it seems like say six and a half
Speaker 1: minutes to go in regulation, and from there the field
Speaker 1: tilted a lot towards you because you've got a shot
Speaker 1: in the at eighty three twenty four, another shot at
Speaker 1: eighty four thirty eight, another shot at eighty eight twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Then you get into the first ot period, shot in
Speaker 1: the ninety first shot, and it's like there were shots
Speaker 1: that you got the field to tilt your way late
Speaker 1: in the second half and in the first ten of overtime.
Speaker 3: You know, I honestly credit our entire team. I think again,
Speaker 3: I tell folks all the time, I've told you our
Speaker 3: depth this year has been wonderful. We're able to put
Speaker 3: in players that the level doesn't drop, and I credit
Speaker 3: our staff, I credit our players, and we do a
Speaker 3: lot of work with our entire team and I think
Speaker 3: it really really paid off. And so the freshness of
Speaker 3: legs really helped us. And just again bummed we didn't
Speaker 3: get a goal.
Speaker 1: Five different players end up with shots for you in
Speaker 1: the match, and you had three with shots on target
Speaker 1: when you go into a PK situation, so nothing's resolved
Speaker 1: after one hundred and ten. What is your what's your
Speaker 1: conversation with the club heading into p k's How do
Speaker 1: you get them to focus on it but not get
Speaker 1: wrapped up in it and overthink the situation.
Speaker 3: What's the conversation like, Well, the conversation with him was
Speaker 3: I knew that Heidi was going to win us the game,
Speaker 3: and I had full faith in our goalkeeper. She's been
Speaker 3: awesome in training, She's having a banner year for us,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to bet on Heidi every time, and
Speaker 3: you know, it was really cool to see her make
Speaker 3: those last two saves and it was awesome and she
Speaker 3: deserves it. She puts into work and super proud of her,
Speaker 3: especially coming off you know, when she missed as the
Speaker 3: second kicker, most people would shut down, and she kind
Speaker 3: of controlled her energy and locked back in and made
Speaker 3: two fabulous saves. I mean, it wasn't like the opponent missed.
Speaker 3: You know, Heidi had to make the saves and she did.
Speaker 3: And again I think that's the difference.
Speaker 2: Let me update the shot numbers.
Speaker 1: It was eight different players that had shots and five
Speaker 1: that had shots on target. For you, going after the
Speaker 1: mentioning the depth in there, and if you just look
Speaker 1: at it from the perspective of when when you have
Speaker 1: your your rundown, when you're trying to sit there and
Speaker 1: look at your order, how do you determine your order?
Speaker 1: Are you looking in players' eyes? Do you have some
Speaker 1: set history and art and do you have an archive
Speaker 1: in your brain? How do you figure out what your
Speaker 1: order is going to be?
Speaker 3: All the credit goes to coach Salsa. You know he
Speaker 3: takes notes in practice, We train it all the time.
Speaker 3: And you know, I said, listen, Budy, this is your
Speaker 3: time to shine. And I said, you picked the starting
Speaker 3: five and then you picked the next five. And you
Speaker 3: know we're only allowed to have nine out there, plus Heidi,
Speaker 3: so you're only allowed to put either you either put
Speaker 3: en field players out there and then your goalie does
Speaker 3: her thing. But Heidi was part of the ten, and
Speaker 3: I said's also you picked the you picked the ten
Speaker 3: and you picked the order, and he did and so
Speaker 3: kudos to him. Uh, he got it right. And super
Speaker 3: proud of me.
Speaker 1: And it's when you look at if you go by
Speaker 1: name and stats and goals and things like that, your
Speaker 1: your kickers in four and five. They're big on minutes,
Speaker 1: not big in stats on the stat sheet, but they
Speaker 1: come up in a pressure situation where it is one
Speaker 1: v one against the opposing keeper and they lock it
Speaker 1: down in the fourth frame and lock it down in
Speaker 1: the fifth frame. I think that once again speaks to
Speaker 1: your depth and the responsibility of each of these individuals
Speaker 1: understanding the collective.
Speaker 2: And no, I.
Speaker 3: Mean again, uh, super proud of Anna, le Barbara and Avery.
Speaker 3: I mean it just it shows how good those kids
Speaker 3: are and how hard they work and for them to
Speaker 3: come up big, like you said in frame four and five.
Speaker 3: You know, we were in the spot last year and
Speaker 3: we were unsuccessful. And in twenty three, you know we
Speaker 3: went out in the round of thirty two to lenor
Speaker 3: Rhian unpens and so I feel like we learned from that,
Speaker 3: but for both of them to step up after literally
Speaker 3: one hundred and ten minutes is awesome, absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1: Next up it is Anna La Barbara, and it was
Speaker 1: an interesting conversation that kind of took a couple of
Speaker 1: different directions, and one from a hint from someone who's
Speaker 1: a little larger than your average normal bird. All right,
Speaker 1: hardest question of the whole thing. How does it feel,
Speaker 1: too advance?
Speaker 5: It feels so great. Just I feel relieved now that
Speaker 5: we did it and we finished in the PKS.
Speaker 4: I'm just ready to go for the next game.
Speaker 1: What was it like out there? Let me take it
Speaker 1: a half at a time or a piece at a time.
Speaker 1: What was it like out there after forty What was
Speaker 1: it like out there after ninety? And then what was
Speaker 1: it like after ninety plus twenty? What was it like
Speaker 1: out there for you?
Speaker 5: After the first forty five, I think I felt like
Speaker 5: we just needed to pick up the pace a little
Speaker 5: bit and just do more of the things that we
Speaker 5: worked on in practice. And then after the second forty five,
Speaker 5: I definitely felt like we were the better team, and
Speaker 5: I feel like we had all these chances we just
Speaker 5: need to finish it off. And then after both other times,
Speaker 5: I was just tired.
Speaker 1: What was the conversation like amongst all the players in
Speaker 1: the huddle getting ready for pks? What was the talk
Speaker 1: like with you and everybody out there?
Speaker 5: Everyone was just trying to take deep breaths and stay
Speaker 5: calm and know that we're confident, and who was taking
Speaker 5: the pins and everyone was just is really trying to
Speaker 5: hype everybody up but also stay super calm.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so.
Speaker 1: We're going to the top of the fifth and you
Speaker 1: it's your turn. Walk me through what's going through your
Speaker 1: mind and your thought process as you're heading to the spot.
Speaker 1: And if I don't want you to give away any
Speaker 1: state secrets about what you're looking at or anything when
Speaker 1: it comes to analyzing a PK, but what's going through
Speaker 1: your mind as you're stepping up there?
Speaker 2: And frame number five.
Speaker 5: Well, stepping up, I was like, Okay, you've got to
Speaker 5: make this or else it's not going to be good.
Speaker 5: So I always jog up. I think it's better to
Speaker 5: jog up to make sure that my nerves don't get
Speaker 5: to me. And I always do the same thing. I
Speaker 5: place the ball down where I want it and I
Speaker 5: take so many steps back. Just take a good deep
Speaker 5: breath and I know where I'm going, and I just
Speaker 5: step up and take it. The deep run really really
Speaker 5: helps me get rid of those nerves, those last second nerves.
Speaker 1: So was that something that just developed over time? Where
Speaker 1: you know we all have your shot routines. Where was
Speaker 1: that just something that developed over time as a part
Speaker 1: of your your shot routine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ever since club in high school, that's just been
Speaker 5: my routine and I've stuck with it. If it works,
Speaker 5: I'm going to keep doing it.
Speaker 1: National semifinal. I know that this is probably a dollar
Speaker 1: in the jar for me, But how does it feel
Speaker 1: to be heading into a national semifinal and still be playing?
Speaker 5: It feels absolutely amazing. I don't even have many words
Speaker 5: other than it feels awesome. And I'm so excited to
Speaker 5: get to go with my friends and just keep playing
Speaker 5: doing what we love.
Speaker 1: Last question for you, and as a member of the
Speaker 1: Red Dog Unit and le Barbara hanging out with, I
Speaker 1: have heard this legend of the Christmas sweaters, and I
Speaker 1: have also heard that the idea is to have the
Speaker 1: ugliest Christmas sweater known to CSU campus and anybody else
Speaker 1: that is in touch with the soccer team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard that you might be winning this competition?
Speaker 2: Is am? I?
Speaker 1: Am I accurate in my assessments here? What is my
Speaker 1: intel telling me here about the ugly sweater competition?
Speaker 5: You are one hundred percent accurate. Red Dogs are definitely
Speaker 5: taking that home. We all showed up with a sweater
Speaker 5: that was sewn together, so all five of us were
Speaker 5: in one giant.
Speaker 4: Ugly sweater.
Speaker 1: Where did this idea come from?
Speaker 5: One of our Red Dog members, brook Hunt, said it
Speaker 5: would be so funny if we all showed up sewn together.
Speaker 5: And I said, okay, well, let's go by the ugliest
Speaker 5: sweaters we can find and cut off the sleeves and
Speaker 5: sew them together.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to walk into a room, walk
Speaker 1: out of a room, understand what the other four want
Speaker 1: to do? How difficult is it to function as five
Speaker 1: in one sweater?
Speaker 4: It's definitely a little difficult.
Speaker 5: We did a lot of shuffling right, left, right, left,
Speaker 5: directing everyone where to go. But we had these funny overalls,
Speaker 5: these Christmas overalls underneath, so we would take off the
Speaker 5: sweaters and that was reveal number two, so we could
Speaker 5: eat and function at the Christmas dinner.
Speaker 2: Congratulations and I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Last conversation in postgame once again Heidi Harris between the sticks.
Speaker 1: She came up big in the penalty kicks shoot out.
Speaker 1: Here's our conversation with the keeper for Columbus State. Now
Speaker 1: it's time to head between the sticks. What was it
Speaker 1: like for you out there in that staring contest that
Speaker 1: was a CSU in West Florida.
Speaker 4: I wasn't that stressed. I had faith in my team.
Speaker 4: I've always trusted that if we did get to this point,
Speaker 4: we would be good. And I just tried to have
Speaker 4: faith in what I know I can do and what
Speaker 4: my team can do and just give it to God.
Speaker 1: When looking at the numbers, after one hundred and ten minutes,
Speaker 1: you only had to face eight shots was all that
Speaker 1: the defense allowed in that one hundred and ten minutes
Speaker 1: and only three on target. You had a moment or
Speaker 1: two where you had to make a say, but it
Speaker 1: didn't look like it was because of the defense that
Speaker 1: was out there in front of you.
Speaker 2: It didn't look like it was that rough a time.
Speaker 1: Not that you were having hot tea and hanging out
Speaker 1: or anything, but it looked like it was manageable out
Speaker 1: there for you as opposed to possibly other matches.
Speaker 4: It was definitely the way they played with something we
Speaker 4: haven't seen before, so it took a while to get
Speaker 4: adjusted to it. They played more like a man mark
Speaker 4: and really high pressed, and so just building out of
Speaker 4: the back first, going long, like whenever you're high pressed,
Speaker 4: you just want to get it out, but sometimes that's
Speaker 4: not the best decision, so just kind of having to
Speaker 4: like relax and feel the game was really like important
Speaker 4: and just trust that my defense can get it out.
Speaker 4: And this is one of the games where we had
Speaker 4: more action in the back, but I just knew my
Speaker 4: defense would pull through. I've had so much faith in
Speaker 4: them and I just love playing with them.
Speaker 1: After ninety minutes, there's no score. What was the conversation
Speaker 1: like with you and everybody else there on the team
Speaker 1: getting ready for the extra twenty.
Speaker 4: Minutes, We just kind of had to go back to
Speaker 4: like how we play and trust our skill. We are
Speaker 4: a really deep team, so I wasn't really worried when
Speaker 4: we went to overtime, but like Jay said in our talk,
Speaker 4: it was like just we have to focus on our skill.
Speaker 4: We can't like rush it or get into the emotions
Speaker 4: of it and just play our game and trust that
Speaker 4: the subs that come on will make a difference and
Speaker 4: keep the level high.
Speaker 1: Then you're in PKS and how do you how do
Speaker 1: you personally keep the moment from getting too big and
Speaker 1: getting wrapped up in it and just focusing on the
Speaker 1: tasks at hand Because you are from the penalty spot
Speaker 1: and you're defending from the penalty spot, how do you
Speaker 1: keep locked in and not getting overwhelmed or let the
Speaker 1: moment take over for it from you?
Speaker 4: Well, I just like, let my team know. You have
Speaker 4: to respect the goalkeeper. She need a lot of good saves,
Speaker 4: but just know where you're going to go place it.
Speaker 4: Don't don't try and do too much being up there.
Speaker 4: I didn't make mine, which was not the best, but
Speaker 4: I knew my team had my back and I did
Speaker 4: panic a little. I won't lie. Once I missed, I
Speaker 4: was like, Okay, that's not the best outcome. But then
Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, I just got to
Speaker 4: lock in. It's not over. My team has my back
Speaker 4: and I need to have their back.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to give away any secrets unless
Speaker 1: you want to. But when in four in frames four
Speaker 1: and five, you come up with back to back saves
Speaker 1: that gets the team the advantage at the end of PK,
Speaker 1: so you can go to a national semi final. What
Speaker 1: are you looking for specifically in a shooter as they
Speaker 1: are walking up to the penalty spot? What's your instant
Speaker 1: analysis and trying to figure out demeanor, emotion? Do they
Speaker 1: look like they want to be there at all? Do
Speaker 1: I know what direction they're going are? Do you have
Speaker 1: key things that you're looking for during a walk up
Speaker 1: to determine how you're going to defend?
Speaker 4: A lot of it is I like to look at
Speaker 4: like where they're looking, to see how long they look
Speaker 4: in a certain place. If they do look somewhere, what's
Speaker 4: their angle coming up? But at the end I kind
Speaker 4: of just kind of waited a second see if I
Speaker 4: could read their body a little more, And I think
Speaker 4: that made a difference.
Speaker 2: Is that what happened in four and five?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I try to just calm it down a little
Speaker 4: be a little more patient leaving my line and see
Speaker 4: if they give anything away.
Speaker 1: And they did and you saved it in four and
Speaker 1: five and you're heading to a national semifinal. How does
Speaker 1: it feel heading to a national semifinal.
Speaker 4: It's it feels so good. Our team puts in so
Speaker 4: much work and to see the results like we did
Speaker 4: today means a lot. We work so hard. It hasn't
Speaker 4: always been easy, but it's a testament to our strength
Speaker 4: and depth. And I think we just really all love
Speaker 4: each other and support each other, and that's made such
Speaker 4: a huge difference because we want the season to continue,
Speaker 4: we want to keep playing, We want the seniors to
Speaker 4: have the longest season possible, and that support and just
Speaker 4: love for each other has made a huge difference.
Speaker 1: Jay and Anna Labar Sarbarah Heidi Harris heading to national
Speaker 1: semifinals for CSU. Once again, a successful season does not
Speaker 1: end in the Western Frontier