Speaker 1: It is that time for the last soccer is in
Speaker 1: Session for the season, presented by our friends at Kaiser Permanente.
Speaker 1: So of course this means it is a soccer is
Speaker 1: in Session playoff Daily Live. And we are in a
Speaker 1: bit of a no dilly, no dally zone because I
Speaker 1: think we've got enough plane stacked on the runway here
Speaker 1: to kind of get you through what happened yesterday and
Speaker 1: get you ready for what's going to happen today. So
Speaker 1: we will waste no time. We'll go to Raider Valley
Speaker 1: find out what in the wide world of sports happened
Speaker 1: after Jason Page and everybody left mckeecheren and went to
Speaker 1: Raider Valley to show off a trophy in a rather
Speaker 1: large billboardy thing and all those kinds of things. So
Speaker 1: we welcome in Jason Page. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm great, fantastic. I think I think everybody's a little
Speaker 2: bit exhausted. We're it's starting to hit us, you know.
Speaker 2: But the arrival, you know, they they they welcomed the girls,
Speaker 2: the team, uh, very well when we showed up because
Speaker 2: our spring football game was was happening last night, had
Speaker 2: some fans that were there, you know, obviously we were
Speaker 2: we were talking to the supporters. We you know, shout
Speaker 2: out to the Raider Nation. They they turned out really
Speaker 2: well last night. So yeah, but I think everybody's probably
Speaker 2: a little bit exhausted. We're gonna enjoy this for a
Speaker 2: little bit longer before we start looking at next season.
Speaker 1: What you're not looking at next season like right now, Jason,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 2: Actually secretly, I mean, we're always planning for the next season,
Speaker 2: but now we're going to put that on hold for
Speaker 2: a second.
Speaker 3: That this has been a long time. You know, this
Speaker 3: has been a four year process.
Speaker 2: This has been the goal when when myself and the
Speaker 2: rest of the coaching staff came in four.
Speaker 3: Years ago, we knew what we had here and.
Speaker 2: Identified quickly that probably the number one thing that had
Speaker 2: to happen was create a culture, a culture of winning.
Speaker 3: And you know, a tribute to the leaders.
Speaker 2: On the team, they did an absolutely fantastic job, you know,
Speaker 2: when you know, it came down to pks and called
Speaker 2: the captains together and we you know, we had a
Speaker 2: pool of ten and we out of that pool of ten,
Speaker 2: came up with the top five and we felt confident
Speaker 2: in going in because it was something that we had
Speaker 2: worked on. We had had too many times where we
Speaker 2: came up short on the PK end. And again I
Speaker 2: always say that it's not my program, it's the girls program.
Speaker 3: And they showed that that work.
Speaker 2: Uh, they demonstrated that works when they take ownership of
Speaker 2: and responsibility for how the team is going to do. Uh,
Speaker 2: good good things can happen, you know. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just incredibly proud of them.
Speaker 1: Yep. So I mean it's uh when when you have
Speaker 1: a moment like that, you said that you had let
Speaker 1: them practice before and you just kind of let them
Speaker 1: do their own thing. It's like you're you and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, you're off to the side. You're just gonna
Speaker 1: let them do their own thing to get ready for
Speaker 1: what possibly could be an ending that ended up being
Speaker 1: the way that it was going to be after one hundred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did Tuesday. Tuesday was scripted. Uh.
Speaker 2: Tuesday was a competition between what we thought were our
Speaker 2: top ten. Uh and then Wednesday it was it was them.
Speaker 2: Uh they got to decide, you know. Uh, they relaxed,
Speaker 2: they took pks, they they talked to each other. They
Speaker 2: were sitting around and talking. Because we knew for the
Speaker 2: seniors it was their last last trading session there.
Speaker 3: And and the.
Speaker 2: Thing, you know, the things that we did as a
Speaker 2: coaching staff as we tried to maintain the routines. We
Speaker 2: didn't want to disrupt anything that we've been doing all season,
Speaker 2: you know, and just kind of keep them lose, keep
Speaker 2: them relaxed. There was no hype about this game whatsoever.
Speaker 3: It was just another game. You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously we probably skeept our game up when it came
Speaker 2: to things like scouting and and knowing what our opponents
Speaker 2: were going to throw against us, which actually I probably
Speaker 2: need to mention.
Speaker 3: I mean what a team Buford was. Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know, I I think I think we don't
Speaker 2: say it enough. Uh And I know I definitely haven't
Speaker 2: when I've talked to people. But you know, in sixth A,
Speaker 2: we had we had us, We had Beauford, we had
Speaker 2: west Ford Scythe we had Campbell, we had Harrison, we
Speaker 2: had Brookwood, who had a tough team. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: there was a lot of competition, and I think there
Speaker 2: were probably six or seven teams that that if if
Speaker 2: they had won it, everybody would have been Yeah. They
Speaker 2: just accepted that that was a heck of a team. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know once once we got to the court finals,
Speaker 2: it was it was pretty tight, so you know, hat
Speaker 2: hats off to Buford for competing, you know, and then
Speaker 2: again in the quarterfinals Harrison, hats off to them, and
Speaker 2: Lambert came and tested us here there there there was
Speaker 2: a lot of talent this year.
Speaker 1: Tyler Mayer from Laway is going to join us in
Speaker 1: about ten minutes. He'll be the next coach up here
Speaker 1: on our last Sucker is in session Playoff Daily Live
Speaker 1: for the year. And you know, you mentioned how tough
Speaker 1: six to eight girls is. That gauntlet that was over
Speaker 1: on the right hand side of the bracket, you just
Speaker 1: kind of got to look at that and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, knock each other around, do your thing. Because
Speaker 1: it was West first side up right, and then Brookwood
Speaker 1: and Buford low right playing quarter finals. Because of how
Speaker 1: the rotation was this year, when the when the bracket
Speaker 1: filled itself out at the absolute beginning, what was your
Speaker 1: first thoughts looking at the right hand side and looking
Speaker 1: at your side on the left.
Speaker 2: Well, at first, I looked at the left side first
Speaker 2: because that's where we were, and I saw Harrison and went,
Speaker 2: dang it. I was hoping that we would face them,
Speaker 2: we had faced them early in the season. It was
Speaker 2: a close game. We knew there are some things that
Speaker 2: we kind of knew going into that game that we
Speaker 2: hoped would work in our favor, and of course, you know,
Speaker 2: wound up being the game that we expected. A very
Speaker 2: well coached team with a lot of talent, They had
Speaker 2: a lot up top coming at us. But then on
Speaker 2: the other side, we yeah, we kind of knew. We've
Speaker 2: been on that side before. A couple of years ago
Speaker 2: we ran into Buford in the second round yea, Which
Speaker 2: you know, that's it just happens that way sometimes, and
Speaker 2: we've been there. We know that it can take a
Speaker 2: toll on a team. But the other thing that can
Speaker 2: happen too is is if one of those teams has
Speaker 2: to travel, if one of those teams has to battle
Speaker 2: and come back, then they've had that experience in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: and as long as they come out without any injuries,
Speaker 2: that really really can be a positive for them. And
Speaker 2: I think one thing that that worked for us was
Speaker 2: we played Harrison early.
Speaker 3: We had to fight that game.
Speaker 2: It was on the road, we had been on the road,
Speaker 2: we had traveled, played a tough.
Speaker 3: Game, and then we came home and you know, Lambert.
Speaker 2: Probably that probably wasn't as challenging a game as Harrison.
Speaker 2: Uh So we were probably a little more fresh coming
Speaker 2: into the final, but it was the travel experience to
Speaker 2: Harrison definitely helped.
Speaker 1: When you think about this group of seniors, what sticks
Speaker 1: in your.
Speaker 3: Head, Oh, how much time you have?
Speaker 1: You got got eight minutes to fill? Brother, it's all you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't I can't say enough about those
Speaker 2: four players and all the seniors really because some had
Speaker 2: to be very very patient, uh to to earn it.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you have the talent that we have here,
Speaker 2: you sometimes had to be very very patient and for
Speaker 2: your moment.
Speaker 3: You know. But the captains just every four years.
Speaker 2: That's been a big thing for us here for the
Speaker 2: coaching staff, is developing our leadership. The JV team does
Speaker 2: a very similar process to what we do of varsity,
Speaker 2: and they understand what it means to be a leader
Speaker 2: and they bring themselves to the role, meaning they don't
Speaker 2: change who they are when they're a leader. They recognize
Speaker 2: the qualities that they have and they use those qualities.
Speaker 3: And all of them did.
Speaker 2: They were very you know, they would be brutally honest
Speaker 2: with the coaches, they would be honest with their teammates.
Speaker 2: But in the same respect, they they they supported and
Speaker 2: they supported the program, and they supported their teammates, and
Speaker 2: they knew what they wanted to do. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's and we have future leaders coming up. This is
Speaker 2: the you know, this year was the first year that
Speaker 2: we had a junior get a significant number of votes.
Speaker 2: It's always been seniors. So that shows that the culture
Speaker 2: is kind of shifting into the players recognize how important
Speaker 2: it is to pick their leaders.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then you know, I mean Grayson, she wasn't a captain,
Speaker 2: but from the back she did a great job directing things.
Speaker 2: We had another senior that that hadn't really played a
Speaker 2: whole lot coming up, and we put her in the
Speaker 2: midfield and to break some people, and she did, Sophia Matravitch.
Speaker 2: She did fantastic, level headed, calm under pressure.
Speaker 3: I was just.
Speaker 2: There's so much that we could say about this group,
Speaker 2: but but very proud of them.
Speaker 3: Tier one is what we're calling them. They're Tier one captains.
Speaker 3: They're there at the top.
Speaker 1: And Grayson was set to be the fifth p K
Speaker 1: taker if it got to that.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, no doubt every captain.
Speaker 2: So when we met before before the PKS, we had
Speaker 2: our pool of ten uh coach Darn, Coach Brad, and myself.
Speaker 2: We had come up with the top five, know we
Speaker 2: wanted to know who was fresh, who felt good, and
Speaker 2: then the captains kind of made their suggestions on the
Speaker 2: order we had adapted.
Speaker 3: We changed a little bit.
Speaker 2: From what coach Don and I thought, and then yeah, Grayson,
Speaker 2: but everybody agreed Grayson was number five.
Speaker 1: What's it like to have everyone on that roster agree
Speaker 1: that Grayson was your number five as your I mean,
Speaker 1: she's starting keeper, and we've seen it in times when
Speaker 1: you go further down the line where it's like maybe
Speaker 1: round nine, round ten, round eleven, and beyond that the
Speaker 1: keeper is there. But your keeper was number five. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty that's pretty heavy. Man.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm so Grayson is an amazing basketball player as well.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure she was a captain on our basketball team.
Speaker 2: She's a four year starter for a girls basketball team.
Speaker 2: So the way that I see it, when she takes
Speaker 2: a PK, it's almost like she's just hitting free throws.
Speaker 2: She puts it in the same spot and she does
Speaker 2: it with amazing pace and confidence, and she's calm.
Speaker 3: I mean, she's just calm under pressure.
Speaker 2: I actually have to say, you know, all five of
Speaker 2: the players, the way that we worked on PKS, you
Speaker 2: could tell that they were very relaxed, and when they
Speaker 2: stepped up to that spot kick.
Speaker 1: So I mean in Anna Ramos, who hadn't seen any action,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in the eighty minutes. Yeah, literally, she's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one of the five. That's a slam dunk. That's
Speaker 1: an easy one. She goes in there and she just
Speaker 1: puts it in the back of the net too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I actually had coach Don walked down and talked
Speaker 2: to her and ask her, and Anna said, yeah, she
Speaker 2: was good. She was good and ready to go. And
Speaker 2: Anna is an amazing player. She's a quality player. It
Speaker 2: just is you know, her moment's gonna come. She's an
Speaker 2: outstanding midfielder. But yeah, she's composed. She's one of our
Speaker 2: number ones when it comes to taking pks's And to
Speaker 2: have someone just literally step in like that and just
Speaker 2: deposited and very very cool.
Speaker 1: Uh when did you finally go to sleep or did you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I slept, I slept. Uh, it wasn't early. We'll
Speaker 3: leave it at that.
Speaker 2: It wasn't very early, but you know, obviously quite a
Speaker 2: few text messages, a few phone calls. Uh, and you know,
Speaker 2: we were down in Raider Valley for a while. Uh,
Speaker 2: and coaches got together to kind of debrief uh after
Speaker 2: that and relax. But you know, it's it's a great moment. Uh.
Speaker 2: It speaks volumes for the community that we have here,
Speaker 2: for the quality not just the quality of athletes, but
Speaker 2: the quality of student athletes.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, our team, it's it's it's loaded with really
Speaker 2: just fantastic kids that you know, I don't know how
Speaker 2: long their soccer career is going to go.
Speaker 3: You know, for a lot of them, that was their
Speaker 3: last game. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know they'll probably play you know, adult league or
Speaker 2: something like that, but as far as competitive soccer, it's
Speaker 2: probably over. But they're going to go on and have
Speaker 2: have some great careers and whatever it is they decide
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, So before you get out of here, I have
Speaker 1: something that I need to play courtesy of our friends
Speaker 1: at the NFHS network. You might recognize one of the voices,
Speaker 1: but I just figured I would play this before you
Speaker 1: left us here today.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna go to Washington.
Speaker 1: Well placed to two absolute rocket to Layelah Washington, Lilah Gillette.
Speaker 1: Top of the third of the third, quick run up
Speaker 1: and easy Jelette.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Neither team really wastes a whole lot of time. It
Speaker 1: looks like you have to go to the one ar
Speaker 1: who's at the report with the reporting station. Basically, we're
Speaker 1: gonna assembly line this as quickly as humanly possible. Bottom
Speaker 1: of the third for Buford.
Speaker 4: Seed you'd mentioned Alen, and Alen comes up big on
Speaker 4: Ebany Torres, Honor Ramos, four for four one team Buford's
Speaker 4: got to keep pace.
Speaker 3: You gotta keep the safe here.
Speaker 1: For Walton to close it out.
Speaker 5: M hm, done and out.
Speaker 6: Brie Adams shut down by Grayson Alen. It takes four
Speaker 6: frames back to back saves and Walton.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 3: That's stuff great.
Speaker 1: Thank you for everything this year. It's been fantastic. You know,
Speaker 1: be banging on your door pretty soon to get ready
Speaker 1: for this upcoming season. But as always, thanks for everything
Speaker 1: this year, and you know on your door soon.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Hey, Jason Page, head coach of Walton. He's got a title.
Speaker 1: And so now we go from there to l o
Speaker 1: A and we go and catch up with Tyler Mayer,
Speaker 1: who has uh and uh. Tyler over at l o A.
Speaker 1: He's at his actual gig. He's like, he's like actually
Speaker 1: doing things in his real job. So Tyler, how are you?
Speaker 5: Sir?
Speaker 7: Hey John, I'm doing I'm doing great. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 7: don't know what's my camera there, but hey, I'm doing
Speaker 7: fantastic today.
Speaker 8: And yeah, you know, a real gig.
Speaker 7: But I'll tell you last night was a real gig
Speaker 7: and it's fantastic. It's a high that we don't want
Speaker 7: to come off of anytime.
Speaker 1: Soon, all right. So I, since I did it with
Speaker 1: Coach Page, let me do the same thing with you
Speaker 1: for one of the moments that happened last night. This
Speaker 1: is our buddy matein Rod on the call courtesy of
Speaker 1: our friends at the NFHS Network. So I will ask
Speaker 1: you where you were when this particular moment happened. After
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 9: Of course, who else to tick the ball but Palmer Larkin,
Speaker 9: who has not scored today, both goals going to Enostrosa,
Speaker 9: but leads this team offensively with thirty four goals this season.
Speaker 9: Larkin to put the game to bed scores and celebrate
Speaker 9: in front of his hometown fans. If it wasn't already
Speaker 9: decided before Palmer Larkin wins the penalty, buries it himself
Speaker 9: and makes it three to one. Lake Acone Academy already
Speaker 9: with one of their hands on the trophy.
Speaker 1: Now, so there you go, Palmer Larkin, who when we
Speaker 1: had coach Don Aleski on last time, we have kind
Speaker 1: of taken something that we do at Georgia Public during
Speaker 1: the American football time of year, and it's to make
Speaker 1: that Kid an Offer segment that Matt Stewart Hannah good
Speaker 1: than I do or we always kind of look around
Speaker 1: the state and look at those underappreciated talents for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And he instantly nominated mister Larkin for the make that
Speaker 1: Kid an Offer element for soccer. What has it been
Speaker 1: like to see his game be a part of things
Speaker 1: this season at LA.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you, John, I mean, you know, when
Speaker 7: you try not to give up scouting reports, it's hard
Speaker 7: not to. It's hard to hide Palmer Larkin. And I'll
Speaker 7: tell you talk about a kid that can just score
Speaker 7: at will and can take over a game, and you
Speaker 7: ask where I was there. The funny thing is John
Speaker 7: I never saw that ball go in the net. I
Speaker 7: turned around to grab a cup of water, you know,
Speaker 7: and then next thing you know, you just hear the
Speaker 7: crowd erupt. So I confess I never saw the ball
Speaker 7: go in. I had to ask him where he put it,
Speaker 7: and he set up for ninety I'm like, are you
Speaker 7: kidding me? Why would you have tried that? Like, just
Speaker 7: just blasted by the keeper and do what you always do.
Speaker 7: So of course his feedback and comment was coach I
Speaker 7: knew he knew I was going to go. Well, I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 7: thank you for making it. But they didn't even see
Speaker 7: it going. I was at the water cooler.
Speaker 1: When you look back at this season, how difficult has
Speaker 1: it been knowing that? But that that entire campus boys
Speaker 1: and girls sides, there are bullseyes on the front and
Speaker 1: the back of the jersey at LA in the classification.
Speaker 1: What's it been like to push through this season and
Speaker 1: come out on top?
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you, I mean, and again thanks for
Speaker 7: bringing it up, but kudos to the to the girls team,
Speaker 7: I mean, back to back state finals appearances to coach
Speaker 7: you know, Baxley and coach Souls this year. But you know,
Speaker 7: I say it a lot here at work, go I'd
Speaker 7: rather be part of something that building and something you know,
Speaker 7: people are trying to emulate than a school or a
Speaker 7: department where people don't want anything to be part of.
Speaker 8: So, you know, we have.
Speaker 7: Something really good going, a lot of young talented athletes
Speaker 7: in this in this small area and just watching these
Speaker 7: boys overcome so much. You know, Connor has done such
Speaker 7: an amazing job in his four to five years here
Speaker 7: just building this program and spending time.
Speaker 8: And and and just you know, and that's what it is.
Speaker 7: You need to spend time with these kids and show
Speaker 7: them that you love them, and you show them that
Speaker 7: you care and that you really want to teach more
Speaker 7: than justice than just an athlete, but a person as well.
Speaker 7: And just just fantastic. And I'm so excited about the
Speaker 7: future of where we're at from our middle school program
Speaker 7: up through our JV program and what the future looks
Speaker 7: like here with with you know, personally our boys.
Speaker 1: Program Class A D two Boys Champs, like a Cony Academy.
Speaker 1: After the big win in the final three to one
Speaker 1: over Atkinson County at Mercer Macon last night, and one
Speaker 1: of the things that I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: is your defense. I know that we all kind of
Speaker 1: gravitate towards goals put in the back of the that
Speaker 1: so on and so on. But even in the postseason
Speaker 1: where you shut out Mountain Zion, Carol, you only give
Speaker 1: up one to doo Lee County and then on the
Speaker 1: right hand side of the bracket you only give up
Speaker 1: one to try on. What's it been like to see
Speaker 1: this defense respond the way that it has this season.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, and I'll piggyback what Connor said the
Speaker 7: other day. I mean, this wasn't our initial back forth.
Speaker 7: You know, you know, we we've played through some things,
Speaker 7: and I think is as coaches, you know, we we
Speaker 7: got together, hit hit the whiteboard and and you know,
Speaker 7: Lefe's about putting people in the right positions to be successful.
Speaker 8: And you know, when you have when.
Speaker 7: You have the proverbial fort Knox in goal, you're you're
Speaker 7: kind of safe no matter what you do.
Speaker 8: But I mean, just so proud of those guys.
Speaker 7: I mean, Austin Dell's come a long way since when
Speaker 7: I've seen him as a as a freshman, and Jamison
Speaker 7: mcew and who we started the season as our striker
Speaker 7: and then Connor got my ear and it's like, hey,
Speaker 7: you know he used to play defense too.
Speaker 8: I'm like, let's go.
Speaker 7: You know, somebody who's comfortable with the ball at their feet,
Speaker 7: he's he's a fierce competitor. Sometimes we have to reel
Speaker 7: them back in. And then Jack Kalvanovitch and his brother
Speaker 7: Adam you know, on the outside. So it took us
Speaker 7: a while to get our foot but hey, offense scores,
Speaker 7: but defense wins championships. Man and man, they locked it
Speaker 7: down when they had to, you know, and even you know,
Speaker 7: the duel of game was an a to zho and
Speaker 7: you know, gave up a late goal there for eight one.
Speaker 7: But you know, not taking anything away from anybody, but
Speaker 7: so just so proud of these boys. And we were
Speaker 7: a team of interchangeable parts this year, and that was
Speaker 7: so refreshing to have everybody played a role. You know,
Speaker 7: we had some mentors throughout the season. Now I was
Speaker 7: able to get you know, the boys around as well.
Speaker 7: We talked about being stars in your role, being all stars,
Speaker 7: and once you know, the roles were identifying, that was
Speaker 7: that was the message. Got to be a star in
Speaker 7: your role. At this time, at this point in.
Speaker 1: The match, how long did it take for you to
Speaker 1: you and the coach Don Leski to kind of get
Speaker 1: everything figured out to where you were comfortable with all
Speaker 1: of these uh you know, all of these pieces having
Speaker 1: to fit in unfamiliar How long did it take for
Speaker 1: that to get to full song to where you guys
Speaker 1: were comfortable maybe.
Speaker 8: The try on game.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's that's John. That's how interchangeable things have been.
Speaker 7: I mean we went from a four four to two
Speaker 7: diamond to a four five three you know, uh four
Speaker 7: or five whatever formations you you want to equate to,
Speaker 7: uh that equal eleven.
Speaker 8: But I mean we.
Speaker 7: Tried a little bit of everything, and and you know,
Speaker 7: I'm an early riser, so I'd be sending formation pictures
Speaker 7: to Connor, like, hey.
Speaker 8: What about this? What about three back? What about three
Speaker 8: up top?
Speaker 7: And and he's like, coach, hey, if it ain't broke,
Speaker 7: don't fix it, like leave it alone.
Speaker 8: I'm like, all right, all right, you're you're right.
Speaker 7: But you know, last night, I mean, we we had
Speaker 7: to you know, we got we Sorry if I'm jumping
Speaker 7: the gum, but we you know, we.
Speaker 8: Got down early.
Speaker 7: And the resiliency of this team. It took a little
Speaker 7: bit in the first half to really get our motors going,
Speaker 7: and we had a real good coming to Jesus half time.
Speaker 7: Made some changes when aggressive, you know, with a with
Speaker 7: a four to three three pushed the attack. I said
Speaker 7: after the game, you know, for a team like at
Speaker 7: CO to not give up a goal all State tournament,
Speaker 7: I found that real challenging for them to do against
Speaker 7: our three headed monsters with Industro, so, Larkin and Dronsky
Speaker 7: up top. And that's what we did and you see
Speaker 7: the results.
Speaker 1: What was the conversation like heading into minute eighty one
Speaker 1: and beyond, because if you had to climb the mountain
Speaker 1: to get to one one, then it's another one to
Speaker 1: try to push through it in that second twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: so you're not going to pks or anything. What was
Speaker 1: the conversation? Was it calm? Was it focused? What was
Speaker 1: the mood as you guys were getting ready for overtime?
Speaker 7: Well, gosh, I get I get chills just just just
Speaker 7: reliving it because it was it was so calm.
Speaker 8: It was. It was so calm.
Speaker 7: You know, you get that point where we tie it
Speaker 7: up one to one, we know we're going into overtime,
Speaker 7: and the momentum was immensely on our side. So it
Speaker 7: wasn't a point of and I had that that personal
Speaker 7: reflection of it. I don't think we're going to lose
Speaker 7: this game. We just have to find a way to
Speaker 7: make the most of our next opportunity. And you know,
Speaker 7: we have this this mantra of unfinished and you know,
Speaker 7: the message going into that overtime was finished, this finish
Speaker 7: what we set out to do. We've got momentum, we've
Speaker 7: got the ability, We've got the.
Speaker 8: Personnel to make this happen.
Speaker 7: And man, that just just coming together, the boys and
Speaker 7: the resiliency and how calm they were. I think they
Speaker 7: knew that we were going to win that match.
Speaker 1: What does this mean to La A. Cooney Academy in
Speaker 1: the the overarching sense? And then what does it mean
Speaker 1: to the program a little closer to the field house?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean for Lake at Cony Academy. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's just it's just another feather in the cap. And
Speaker 7: I don't say that, you know, arrogantly. It's just it's
Speaker 7: such a community, you know, driven by academics and athletics,
Speaker 7: and it's you know, it's you know, going around town
Speaker 7: today and seeing everybody and coming into work and hearing
Speaker 7: from everybody.
Speaker 8: And it's you know.
Speaker 7: When you're when you're part of something bigger than than
Speaker 7: yourself with which this is And this isn't about Connor
Speaker 7: winning or me winning. This is about you know, these
Speaker 7: boys coming together and overcoming adversity from the.
Speaker 8: Last two three seasons.
Speaker 7: And you know, I think it's just we now understand
Speaker 7: at the high school level.
Speaker 8: And I made this known to the boys.
Speaker 7: The second you sign up to be an athlete, no
Speaker 7: matter what what level you play, you are on a
Speaker 7: different stage. You know, you are in a pedestal now
Speaker 7: that is magnified everything coults, no matter what you do,
Speaker 7: how you behave, how you act in the classroom, out
Speaker 7: in the community, and you know, you know, hopefully you know,
Speaker 7: these boys know that they they are role models, you know,
Speaker 7: and they have now paved the way for others to follow.
Speaker 8: And that's what's exciting.
Speaker 1: Winners in Class A D two, you get to how
Speaker 1: how much sleep did you get by the way?
Speaker 7: Oh man, I'll tell you we got by the time
Speaker 7: we got off the bus it was after one. And
Speaker 7: then I'll tell you what our our tiresome, you know.
Speaker 7: Coach Souls with the girls team she's in charge of
Speaker 7: pe at the school. We went and helped set up
Speaker 7: field day on the turf field. So but that's what
Speaker 7: we do. That's what we do, you know. We we
Speaker 7: help each other. So running on about three and a
Speaker 7: half hours of sleep and running on Duncan.
Speaker 1: Today, I can I can relate. I am not a
Speaker 1: guy that runs on Duncan. I run on high powered
Speaker 1: PEPSI products myself. Beautiful winners over at co in the
Speaker 1: final and Class A D two boys. As always, it's
Speaker 1: great to catch up with everybody down there at LA
Speaker 1: and in Greensboro. It's another really cool pocket where things
Speaker 1: are growing in Class A Division two. Tyler, thanks for
Speaker 1: dropping by and sharing the story about the win last night.
Speaker 1: Go get some more Duncan and then maybe a nap
Speaker 1: and hopefully you survive field day. And may you not
Speaker 1: set your alarm tomorrow morning.
Speaker 8: Man, we'll look.
Speaker 7: Hey, I kick off with my club club soccer team tomorrow.
Speaker 7: We got a tournament tomorrow, we got graduation tonight. Hey,
Speaker 7: this is what we live for, right, could you blink
Speaker 7: and it's over?
Speaker 8: So let's go, man. Hey, God bless you guys. Thanks John, all.
Speaker 1: Right, be good, Tyler Mayor and he's gonna go and
Speaker 1: maybe get a cat nap or something. I'll say, so
Speaker 1: Field Day, Graduation Club team, all the things as you
Speaker 1: head out, as you head out I twenty toward Augusta
Speaker 1: and the lake and the bridge that you cross over
Speaker 1: there in Greensboro. So Tyler Mayor one of the coaches
Speaker 1: there at Lakacony Academy, Connor Don Maleski, says, I can't
Speaker 1: do it, but Tyler can check and ce and and
Speaker 1: so that's why we dialed up Tyler at his his
Speaker 1: his establishment of establishments and so yeah, he is a
Speaker 1: he is a trainer, and so he's a training folks
Speaker 1: and coaching folks and doing like nineteen different things out
Speaker 1: there in Greensboro. So very very cool that Tyler Mayer
Speaker 1: was able to join us on a very very busy
Speaker 1: day out at Lake A Cooney Academy after their win.
Speaker 1: So that's one of the other things. It's like late games,
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out, Okay, how Lake do folks
Speaker 1: stay up? And so now we have that answer. So
Speaker 1: once again we tag out and now we go and
Speaker 1: catch up with Scott Snyder and has it sunk in yet? Scott?
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, yes, because I'm now working doing frisbee golf with
Speaker 10: middle school kids.
Speaker 1: Oh so, how good a frisbee golfer? Are you, sir?
Speaker 5: I'm not very good.
Speaker 10: I'm just I'm just the facilitator. It's a it's a
Speaker 10: fun day for the kids, and I had to come in.
Speaker 10: I had a late night, but I'm feeling good, that's
Speaker 10: for sure.
Speaker 1: How late a night was it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 10: Well, we got locked out of the locker room after
Speaker 10: the game, so it ended up taking another hour.
Speaker 1: Wow, whoa, whoa? You got locked out?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean the school was closed up and we
Speaker 10: didn't find anybody, so we were sitting there.
Speaker 5: But it's a lot better.
Speaker 10: In my high school, my last game of my high
Speaker 10: school career, we lost our trival and then our bus
Speaker 10: broke down and we had to sit there for two
Speaker 10: hours and watch them celebrate.
Speaker 5: So this was better.
Speaker 1: Break it down for me a half at a time
Speaker 1: last night in a heated rivalrymatch like this one. So
Speaker 1: at forty minutes, what did you think of the first forty?
Speaker 5: I thought the first forty were good.
Speaker 10: I thought we started out well and then they it
Speaker 10: was kind of back and forth. They would possess much
Speaker 10: more than we did. But then we were very good
Speaker 10: at our counter attack chances, and I thought that that
Speaker 10: kept us in the game. So we got to I
Speaker 10: felt pretty good. We just needed to make some tactical adjustments.
Speaker 1: And so what was the conversation like at the half
Speaker 1: to make those tactical adjustments to get you ready for
Speaker 1: the second forty?
Speaker 10: There was a certain personnel that we felt we had
Speaker 10: to cover, and it's kind of like you as a
Speaker 10: soccer coach. I wish they would give me one time
Speaker 10: out in the game and I just solved everything. We
Speaker 10: thought we were twelve, but then they adjusted to our
Speaker 10: adjustments and it just kept on being a back and
Speaker 10: forth game.
Speaker 1: How much of a chess match was it? You mentioned
Speaker 1: adjustments and them adjusting to your adjustments and so on.
Speaker 1: How much of a chess match was in that second forty?
Speaker 5: Well that's I.
Speaker 10: Felt good in that sense, But to be honest, it
Speaker 10: was like it's just the tale of two styles.
Speaker 5: They were very good at possession.
Speaker 10: They would hold it, and I thought our way around
Speaker 10: that was to counterattack. I think both of us created
Speaker 10: some really good chances. I think it was fair that
Speaker 10: nobody scored.
Speaker 5: If if some.
Speaker 10: Of those chances have gone in It could have been
Speaker 10: a three four to nothing game on either side, but
Speaker 10: for whatever reason, we both defended very well and got lucky.
Speaker 1: So then you're heading into the extra extra frames. What
Speaker 1: was the What was the mood like in the huddle
Speaker 1: or they calm or they anxious? What was it like
Speaker 1: trying to get the message across after eighty minutes getting
Speaker 1: ready for minutes eighty one through ninety?
Speaker 5: It was that was something.
Speaker 10: It's it's high school sports, so your whole bench just
Speaker 10: like cheering, and I'm trying to get them to be
Speaker 10: quiet so I can talk to the team.
Speaker 5: So just deal with that was it, And then I
Speaker 5: felt good about what we did. I talked more.
Speaker 10: About composure and maintaining like focus, and then my assistance,
Speaker 10: I let them talk a little bit tactically, and yeah,
Speaker 10: I felt good going in there. But I did think
Speaker 10: they basically you would have to say they they were
Speaker 10: better in the game in terms of like possession and stuff.
Speaker 10: I thought tactically we were better, and that's where I
Speaker 10: was trying to get it. I mean, I could not
Speaker 10: beat them playing their game. I had to try to
Speaker 10: get them to play our game.
Speaker 1: How difficult is that to try and turn an opponent
Speaker 1: to where they're having to defend against what you want
Speaker 1: to do, instead of, you know, having to have two
Speaker 1: rams on a mountain side butting heads with conflicting styles.
Speaker 1: How difficult is it to turn that dial to where
Speaker 1: they're doing what you want them to do.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's very I mean you could see the game.
Speaker 10: It's like we would get it turned for a minute
Speaker 10: or half or two and then they would revert it
Speaker 10: right back. The thing that was harder for us is
Speaker 10: that their way made us have to run a lot.
Speaker 10: So when we are defending, they're holding the ball, they're
Speaker 10: resting in essence, and we're running to close down angles.
Speaker 10: So and then when we get the ball, we're running
Speaker 10: to counterattack. So it is a little bit of fitness
Speaker 10: component that.
Speaker 5: We to beware. We had to keep subs ready, we
Speaker 5: had to keep it going.
Speaker 1: And you're also having to navigate that plus the weather
Speaker 1: and all these different things. Where a kickoff at mckechern
Speaker 1: last night it was like ninety degrees at five o'clock
Speaker 1: and it was probably low eighties by the time I
Speaker 1: got to seven thirty. How much of a navigation was
Speaker 1: the weather in addition to having to adjust to your
Speaker 1: style and their style and all of that stuff.
Speaker 10: The weather for us actually that we got lucky because
Speaker 10: we were playing today, They're saying it's going to be
Speaker 10: ninety and being the later game helped us. I assumed
Speaker 10: that they were going to be really good with fitness.
Speaker 10: I'm I do our fitness, but I can't say like
Speaker 10: I'm not an expert.
Speaker 5: It's not my background.
Speaker 10: I played in college and I use what we did.
Speaker 10: So I feel my team was in pretty good shape.
Speaker 10: But the game seemed to bear it out, but we
Speaker 10: definitely cramped up. We had players that.
Speaker 5: Had to come out that we would rather be in the.
Speaker 1: Game conversation.
Speaker 5: P K.
Speaker 1: How do you navigate that?
Speaker 5: The week before with Dalton, so I felt helped with it.
Speaker 5: I thought my keeper was good.
Speaker 10: The thing that we didn't have on them was that
Speaker 10: we had known Dalton, like they had taken p k's before,
Speaker 10: so we could actually go and look at film.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 10: With with this group, I watched one kid take a
Speaker 10: p K when they played Pious, so we didn't know
Speaker 10: about their kickers and that sometimes that's not a bad
Speaker 10: thing because then your keeper just does what he does
Speaker 10: based on instinct.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, when you got so tell you what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna play a I'm gonna play a piece
Speaker 1: of audio right and I'm gonna I want your reaction
Speaker 1: after it gets played. But this is late last night,
Speaker 1: in a game that you are very very familiar with.
Speaker 1: To see of our friends at the NFHS network, Jason
Speaker 1: Longshore Maddy Cruise in the call three.
Speaker 11: Two Westminster round four Andrew Alvarez from Marist.
Speaker 12: Pressure mounting.
Speaker 11: Alvarez right behind the ball over the bar, went for
Speaker 11: the upper ninety. Didn't miss by much, but it's over
Speaker 11: the bar and the Wildcats can win it here.
Speaker 12: Tristan Lewis, the senior defender. Tristan Lewis.
Speaker 11: Can earn a second straight state championship for Westminster.
Speaker 1: Four steps back.
Speaker 12: Lewis h right, But why he missed it to the
Speaker 12: opposite side.
Speaker 11: Gordon wasn't bouncing as much as he could to try
Speaker 11: to throw Lewis off.
Speaker 12: I think he did. Marist have to make here, Matt Connor.
Speaker 11: A miss or a save and Westminster are your state champions.
Speaker 11: A make and then Westminster will have the opportunity to
Speaker 11: win it from the spot in the fifth round.
Speaker 12: Matt Connor for Marist five yards behind.
Speaker 3: The ball.
Speaker 12: Lee right in the middle of the goal. Here comes
Speaker 12: con Her.
Speaker 11: Off the post, Westminster or your state champions.
Speaker 10: Okay, I mean obviously we didn't want to miss, and
Speaker 10: that's that's part of life. We missed up at Dalton,
Speaker 10: and it was a lot more tenuous because that put
Speaker 10: us behind and our keeper had to make the safe
Speaker 10: to make the difference.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I I I.
Speaker 10: Still felt confident. I mean a lot of I don't know.
Speaker 10: I really emphasize that pieces. We trained pks the whole year,
Speaker 10: and we train like exactly what your routine is, so
Speaker 10: that when you get there you shouldn't have pressure. You're
Speaker 10: just doing your routine and you ignore everything else.
Speaker 5: Tristan had not missed.
Speaker 10: We felt good about him, and he even felt good
Speaker 10: about his kick. But even after that, I felt that
Speaker 10: my keeper was going to be the difference maker. I
Speaker 10: felt like we were going to be go to our kicks,
Speaker 10: but my keeper could make the difference because he almost
Speaker 10: saved two again, and he saved the second one and
Speaker 10: enrolled in one of those horrible slope of sport.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, but no, I we were going. It was
Speaker 5: strange because at the end of the game.
Speaker 10: Theyres like a thirty seconds left and it's their team
Speaker 10: just quit. They just in the sense they didn't quit
Speaker 10: like hey, we're done, but they didn't try to play
Speaker 10: another ball out.
Speaker 5: And not for me.
Speaker 10: I would you always see those goals in the last
Speaker 10: two seconds or whatever, you know, the land and Donovan
Speaker 10: Scoore or something like that. So I always want to
Speaker 10: push for that. But they seemed like they were content
Speaker 10: to go to kicks.
Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, how much time are you
Speaker 1: going to give yourself to celebrate and enjoy this before
Speaker 1: you start getting ready for next year.
Speaker 10: I need to learn to give myself grace, to be honest.
Speaker 10: As you get older, it's it becomes a grind if
Speaker 10: you don't step back and relax and enjoy it. So
Speaker 10: I mean, we'll do stuff with the summer that's more
Speaker 10: like we like the company, enjoy it. I start to
Speaker 10: try to recruit, but not in the sense that people think.
Speaker 5: I coached the football team.
Speaker 13: I'm an assistant and I'm always talking about I had
Speaker 13: three football starters on the fields, you know, I just
Speaker 13: talk at basketball's going to basketball, guys.
Speaker 5: Guys need to look here.
Speaker 13: I read this great article Hard Grates said he wanted
Speaker 13: to be a basketball player, and he played basketball. I
Speaker 13: guess he just wasn't to be the strongest guy, but
Speaker 13: that made me such a better soccer player. So I
Speaker 13: get those stories and I try to kids and.
Speaker 5: Get them to come out for us.
Speaker 1: Last question for you, because I know you've got to
Speaker 1: get back to uh looking after what's going on with golf,
Speaker 1: and I know I'm probably giving you lactic acidosis for
Speaker 1: how you're holding the phone. We have a we have
Speaker 1: a question from p W and he wanted to know
Speaker 1: how how has your coaching evolved and improved since joining
Speaker 1: the over forty Blues on Monday nights.
Speaker 13: Oh, it's definitely probably the most significant factor in mysy.
Speaker 13: You are a good guys and it's definitely on the
Speaker 13: forty Monday.
Speaker 10: Thanks becaus.
Speaker 5: Afterwards we'll stay and have a.
Speaker 13: Couple of years together and that makes us been at
Speaker 13: the cab.
Speaker 5: Regard someone one.
Speaker 14: Or not.
Speaker 1: Well as always. Thanks for everything this season, Scott, congratulations
Speaker 1: and go enjoy it and may every frisbee golfer hit
Speaker 1: a hole in one have a great weekend. Thanks for
Speaker 1: everything this season. We really appreciate everything that you do
Speaker 1: for the sport and everything you've done here at SDH.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Take care of all right, Scott Snyder,
Speaker 1: he is the head coach at Westminster and he yes.
Speaker 1: And by the way, full disclosure, that last question came
Speaker 1: for Patrick Williams, part of the coaching staff over at Shambly.
Speaker 1: He says, hey, if you get Snyder on today, tried
Speaker 1: to throw h mccurr. So I think it's safe to
Speaker 1: say that we threw himccurr.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: The contributing factor to one of the contributing factors to
Speaker 1: the top of Scott Snyder's success is joining the over
Speaker 1: forty Blues on Monday nights.
Speaker 3: So that was very very cool.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Patrick, thank you for the heads
Speaker 1: up to give the end of the segment the perfect
Speaker 1: question that we got. So that is three coaches down,
Speaker 1: and that is the championships that we've got so far.
Speaker 1: So let's recap where we are and get you ready
Speaker 1: for today. Eighty two boys Lake of Cony Academy, three
Speaker 1: one winners over Atkinson. That was at Mercer Macon yesterday
Speaker 1: ad one boys our Merchie and Thomasville. Remember we caught
Speaker 1: up with Jason Page a couple of days ago found
Speaker 1: out about that craziness. That was at mckeachern. So our Merchie,
Speaker 1: you're champion. There double a boys seven thirty tonight at
Speaker 1: Mercer Macon. Shaw has come through as team number nine
Speaker 1: in your brackets. They're going to take on Drew Charter,
Speaker 1: who is ranked number three Team three and Drew Charter
Speaker 1: has only given up three goals in the postseason and
Speaker 1: it was or is it just one? I think it's
Speaker 1: just one goal in the postseason. That was the Tattnall
Speaker 1: County So Tattnall County scored on Drew Charter. And at
Speaker 1: Mercer Macon tonight at seven thirty, they are calling for
Speaker 1: a blackout, So if you're a fan of Drew Charter,
Speaker 1: they are asking that you bring a dark clothing to
Speaker 1: be a big supporter there for Drew Charter coming up
Speaker 1: at seven thirty tonight at Mercer Makin. Shaw has made
Speaker 1: their way through his Team nine Drew Charter upper right
Speaker 1: hand corner of the bracket. They have come through as
Speaker 1: team number three. So Shaw three nail winners over Khola
Speaker 1: Creek and Drew Charter three one winners at Tatnall County
Speaker 1: in Reidsville, and that will determine your boys double A title,
Speaker 1: TRIPLEA once again. Johnson gains all of the Northwest Whitfield.
Speaker 1: That one was at mckeechern. Quad A boys Marist once
Speaker 1: again in PK's three to two Westminster in PKS. So
Speaker 1: Westminster got the title in Quad A boys five A
Speaker 1: boys river Ridge and Spraybury tonight at Duluth at seven
Speaker 1: point thirty. If you are near Duluth, go see this
Speaker 1: one river Ridge and Spraybury. That's going to be a
Speaker 1: tremendous matchup two nationally ranked teams in five A. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be at seven thirty tonight, So keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that one. Six A boys your championship once again.
Speaker 1: Last night Campbell over Grayson by the score of one nil.
Speaker 1: And we are hoping to catch up with coach Connolly
Speaker 1: and find out what his thoughts are about happen there.
Speaker 1: And speaking of speaking of we got him, how was
Speaker 1: the Dennis appointment?
Speaker 3: Troy uneventful?
Speaker 10: Man?
Speaker 14: They have to do another draft or something. Yeah, it's
Speaker 14: delayed even for thought. I was gonna be a big, big,
Speaker 14: huge procedure today, but it's not quite ready.
Speaker 3: It's a nightmare, all right.
Speaker 1: But what weill will do is we're going to play
Speaker 1: a piece of audio for you to start off the segment.
Speaker 1: Since you're sitting in your car. This is safe listening
Speaker 1: and it's safe interviewing. So this is how this will go.
Speaker 1: You may hear some familiar voices from last night, and
Speaker 1: it is a particular moment that happened last night courtesy
Speaker 1: of our friends at the NFHS Network from a match
Speaker 1: that you might be really familiar with. At least you're
Speaker 1: directing a little traffic, little conversations with everyone at Campbell
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 15: Frankly, I'm amazed that Grayson even have somebody on their
Speaker 15: own hand to the field, and it's not just the
Speaker 15: keeper by himself, because you are in a situation now
Speaker 15: with the way that Campbell has been keeping the ball
Speaker 15: from you and the way they have been fighting so tenaciously.
Speaker 1: If you don't get this the first time, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you get it back. Bat a coon
Speaker 1: on his feet heading to the bench, and I think
Speaker 1: the conversation is trying to figure out, Hey, can I sub.
Speaker 3: Should be Alex.
Speaker 1: I think they were checking for a head injury really soon.
Speaker 1: So Kamara thirty five yards from the near side corner flag.
Speaker 1: Start the clock, keep giving up real estate. Schleister doesn't care.
Speaker 16: No, clock's still going. The perfect is you're Campbell, You'll
Speaker 16: just keep playing volleyball all day long.
Speaker 1: Camara again, twenty five yards getting to the ball first.
Speaker 1: Miles Russell sends it clear.
Speaker 16: He said, sure, you're gonna get another chance. Now this
Speaker 16: is gonna be last Hey, this is the last chance saloon.
Speaker 16: If you are Grayson.
Speaker 1: Callan freeman going along first to get there, flick header
Speaker 1: goes backward edge of the eighteen, nardello chip through the
Speaker 1: gold mouth, near side edge of the eighteen, push back, shot.
Speaker 5: Point and plank saved and wide.
Speaker 12: And that's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: They got a chance for this court, right, No, no two?
Speaker 1: What So how's it feel?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 14: I I can't even put into words. It's I don't
Speaker 14: know if it's fully sunk in yet. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Let me let me go. I want to walk through
Speaker 1: this with you a little bit. First forty minutes conversations
Speaker 1: at the half what were they?
Speaker 14: I mean the conversations I half is they've they executed
Speaker 14: the planet exactly what we were trying to do. We
Speaker 14: we need we needed to stay as compact as possible.
Speaker 14: We knew how dangerous their front two were, and we
Speaker 14: knew we wanted to target their their their left back.
Speaker 14: We knew we wanted to target target that right side.
Speaker 14: So in transition, that's where we uh, where we focused,
Speaker 14: where we where we played. We hardly put the ball
Speaker 14: into our left side at all that first half, and
Speaker 14: we generate some chances. We had a couple of shots,
Speaker 14: keeper made one maybe two saves, had some long throws, uh,
Speaker 14: some some corners. Again, I thought it was a pretty
Speaker 14: even first half. I know they hit the post. Maybe
Speaker 14: it was a crossbar. I think they hit the cross Yeah,
Speaker 14: but again it's it's other than that. The keeper had
Speaker 14: some some routine ish saves, but we forced our keeper
Speaker 14: into some SA saves two. But conversation at half was executed.
Speaker 14: Do exactly what we've been doing, keep working, keep going
Speaker 14: to the plan. And then we focused a lot in
Speaker 14: the second balls, trying to trying to jump on the
Speaker 14: second balls, especially when we had like long throws and
Speaker 14: long corner kicks. We uh, there were several that dropped
Speaker 14: in a spot where normally we would have a player.
Speaker 14: But because because their front two were so we're so
Speaker 14: dangerous and they left them high on all set pieces.
Speaker 3: We actually we.
Speaker 14: Kept four back so that that next player that should
Speaker 14: have been on top of the eighteen where that ball
Speaker 14: kept dropping, we only had one there, and we weren't
Speaker 14: going to make that adjustment. We weren't weren't nive enough
Speaker 14: to try and go even two v three versus or
Speaker 14: three v two rather verse their their frontio there. Those
Speaker 14: two players are incredible.
Speaker 1: Then you go through eighty minutes and it's you're fourteen
Speaker 1: to go, and you're having to hang on and hang
Speaker 1: on and hang on, and you kind of heard a
Speaker 1: little bit where Jarrett and I were going with the call.
Speaker 1: We could not have spoken anymore highly about a defense
Speaker 1: that we knew was going to suffer in that final
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes because of everything that you knew Grayson was
Speaker 1: going to be throwing at you, throwing at you and
Speaker 1: throwing at you. What was it like for you on
Speaker 1: the touch line looking at that defense respond the way
Speaker 1: that they did in an environment where they were going
Speaker 1: to suffer.
Speaker 14: Man, that's the most stressful fourteen minutes I think I've
Speaker 14: ever experienced. I don't know if I've ever experienced anything
Speaker 14: like that. The feeling like the stress release after the game.
Speaker 14: Fourteen minutes is a long time.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 14: And going into the game, my conversations with with my coaches,
Speaker 14: like we knew like the longer it stayed zero zero
Speaker 14: that worked in our favor.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 14: If we would have scored in the first half, like
Speaker 14: who knows what would have happen in terms of opening
Speaker 14: the game up and and and all that. But so
Speaker 14: the fourteen minutes left, it was, it was, it was,
Speaker 14: it was.
Speaker 5: It was tough.
Speaker 3: It was tough.
Speaker 14: They I cannot be highly enough about my back line
Speaker 14: on midfield that put it in a shift. Even right
Speaker 14: before that, Gavin coming coming off of the bench into
Speaker 14: the role he did. I was the shout out to
Speaker 14: one of my assistant coaches. I can't remember exactly which
Speaker 14: one it was, but put that in my years saying hey,
Speaker 14: like let's let's throw Gavin up top, let's get his
Speaker 14: work rate. And we cycled in, uh, Trey for for
Speaker 14: Tristan to a freshman for a freshman on on that
Speaker 14: left side. And yeah, man, that that last fourteen minutes
Speaker 14: was a long time.
Speaker 1: But I mean, and you mentioned it, so I'll follow
Speaker 1: up on it. The impact that you had from the
Speaker 1: three freshmen that you put out there at various points.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's a lot of responsibility for some
Speaker 1: very young student athletes in a situation like that, and
Speaker 1: they handled it really well.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they've they were the biggest surprises of the season
Speaker 14: for us. We saw them in tryouts. We knew that
Speaker 14: they were technically skilled. It's one thing to be technically skilled,
Speaker 14: though as a fourteen year old you're playing gainst eighteen
Speaker 14: year old kids. You're playing against kids that are that
Speaker 14: are a head taller than you have sometimes forty fifty
Speaker 14: pounds on you. And some of the shifts that they
Speaker 14: put in throughout the season were incredible, and at this
Speaker 14: point the season, like it's not even hesitation, Like we
Speaker 14: know what we're going to get out of them from
Speaker 14: each each of them individually. They each have their own
Speaker 14: strengths and they I think they showcase them. And again
Speaker 14: that's they're They're a big part of like why we
Speaker 14: were successful the season.
Speaker 1: Mean to have it looked like the entire Campbell student body.
Speaker 14: Man, Yeah, it felt like a home game. It felt
Speaker 14: like a home game. I took some screenshots of Uh,
Speaker 14: it was just a wall wall of students, so loud
Speaker 14: that we've been very fortunate the last two years with
Speaker 14: the support we've gotten from the the students that have
Speaker 14: come out. They've they've traveled well with us, They've they've
Speaker 14: had their backs the entire time. They showed out last night.
Speaker 14: It was Uh, it was amazing.
Speaker 1: I want to ask about your keeper, and especially late
Speaker 1: when he was as locked in as he was coming
Speaker 1: up with a couple of big saves, and I mean
Speaker 1: the responsibility was there and he was locked in the
Speaker 1: entire time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I so one of the things I always say, I've
Speaker 14: said this for the last few years, like I don't
Speaker 14: need any of my players to be perfect, Like no
Speaker 14: one's gonna play a perfect game, but I need to
Speaker 14: be clutch when it matters. So I would say, can
Speaker 14: be perfectly clutching. And Eric, he was clutched all season
Speaker 14: the case stop against Lambert. Bringing that up again, you know,
Speaker 14: I don't know how much he knew about the stop
Speaker 14: that that came out at the point, like I went
Speaker 14: back and rewatched it, like it happened so fast in
Speaker 14: the moment that like I almost didn't even realize like
Speaker 14: how fastball came to him I watching watching it back,
Speaker 14: I don't know how much he new about the same,
Speaker 14: but he's positioned right where it needs to be. Is
Speaker 14: he was in the clutch spot and he got it done,
Speaker 14: and he did he did that for us all season
Speaker 14: all season.
Speaker 3: Incredible.
Speaker 1: What does this mean for the program?
Speaker 3: Everything? Everything?
Speaker 14: It's I've been that gave this my tenth going on
Speaker 14: to love the year now. We've been working to get
Speaker 14: to this point and it's it hasn't been easy. We've
Speaker 14: we've made steps in the right direction, made to the
Speaker 14: final four several times in the past, just couldn't get
Speaker 14: over that line. Last year, got to the finals and
Speaker 14: just couldn't get it done. For the talent that we
Speaker 14: have in the perm to the talent that we've had
Speaker 14: through the program. Again, Ie, I think it adds. I
Speaker 14: think it's I think I hope it. Uh, it's silence
Speaker 14: is a bunch of peace. Well that have been critics
Speaker 14: to the program and the program respect because this is
Speaker 14: five years old. We at least the Elite eight three
Speaker 14: of the last four years would be at least one
Speaker 14: four finals back and back like that's none of this
Speaker 14: is an accident.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 14: The coaching staff that I have helped meet, that the
Speaker 14: players will be have there. That's support that we get
Speaker 14: from the Booster Club in the sumer community and this
Speaker 14: itself like none of this is an accident. I'm just
Speaker 14: really proud.
Speaker 1: Troy Connolly, the head coach of the State six A
Speaker 1: champ Campbell Spark. That does that sound Uh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud.
Speaker 14: Definitely the most proud. That's my creience.
Speaker 3: It's uh. I hope to going for I'm.
Speaker 1: Get some rest. Thanks for everything that you've been helping
Speaker 1: us out with all season long. Can't thank you enough
Speaker 1: for everything. Enjoy the weekend, get in a nap or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just enjoy it for a little bit because I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna give yourself about like three and a half
Speaker 1: days before you start looking at next year, right, Troy,
Speaker 1: thanks again, Just be safe and we'll catch up with
Speaker 1: you soon. My friend be well, really good, all right,
Speaker 1: Troy Connelly, the head coach at Campbell. So we went
Speaker 1: four for four and it was really cool. Once again,
Speaker 1: thanks to our friends of the NFHS network. And I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that Troy's dental appointment didn't get everything fixed and
Speaker 1: he's got to go back now. But thanks to the
Speaker 1: NFHS Network for all the clips. Thanks to the coaches
Speaker 1: for dropping by. So let's see, we had Jason Page
Speaker 1: in his office, we had Coach Mayer at his work,
Speaker 1: we had Coach Snyder who was kind of the athletic
Speaker 1: teacher for middle school frisbee golf, and we had Troy
Speaker 1: Connelly in his car. And that was really cool that
Speaker 1: each of the four of them were like, yep, if
Speaker 1: I can do this on my phone, that'd be great,
Speaker 1: and so you send the link, you log in on
Speaker 1: your phone. There you go. Can't thank them enough for
Speaker 1: helping us out today to tell the stories. Part of
Speaker 1: the stories about what happened yesterday. Let's go back over
Speaker 1: your brackets once again and catch up where we were
Speaker 1: six A boys Campbell over Grayson by the final of
Speaker 1: one nil. And it was a great goal, fantastic saved
Speaker 1: by Muhik to start things off, and then the presence
Speaker 1: of mind by Trey Klein to go work it back
Speaker 1: to the middle slam dunk, that's your goal, one nil,
Speaker 1: and then fourteen minutes of some of the most nail
Speaker 1: biting stuff you could have ever seen, Private Boys Side
Speaker 1: Ais over Whitfield Academy. So AIS goes back to back
Speaker 1: at Duluth, and that was back on Wednesday. Final score
Speaker 1: there was one nil. That's your boys run. So once
Speaker 1: again remember two A and it is two A at
Speaker 1: mercer Making tonight. It is five A out at Duluth today.
Speaker 1: So two A and five A are the two classifications
Speaker 1: that are still in two A boys, five A boys,
Speaker 1: five A boys. If you can get to Duluth, get
Speaker 1: to Duluth, it's gonna be some heavy duty soccer on
Speaker 1: the five A boys side. Girls side. Let's go over
Speaker 1: your champs. Starting off in Class A D two girls,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned Atlanta Classical over Lake at Cony Academy
Speaker 1: by the score of two to one. That one was
Speaker 1: yesterday and that was the first one. Class A D
Speaker 1: one girls model shut out. Breemen is the first championship
Speaker 1: of Championship week at mckecheren. Final score there three nil
Speaker 1: Double A girls. Later today five o'clock at mercer Macon
Speaker 1: matteen rodd on the call for those keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for a Buddy luke winstill as well Savannah Arts
Speaker 1: and Pike County. That one is at five o'clock at
Speaker 1: mercer Macon. Class A D, Class A, Class Double A
Speaker 1: Girls Championship TRIPLEA Girls goes to Acny County. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Judson Handy for joining us and thanks to Molly McCarty
Speaker 1: for joining us all season long. As they have two
Speaker 1: great ambassadors for the sport, two great ambassadors for the
Speaker 1: sport in the state of Georgia, two great coaches for
Speaker 1: their programs, two fantastic communities. I can't say enough about
Speaker 1: each of those communities and what we've seen with coach
Speaker 1: Miller and coach Novice on the athletic director's side of
Speaker 1: things and rolling out the carpets and having us come
Speaker 1: and call their matches. But then you get to when
Speaker 1: you go as many times as we do, you get
Speaker 1: the opportunity to see what these programs do and what
Speaker 1: they mean to the fabric of their communities. Can't say
Speaker 1: enough about Jefferson and Acony County. One of the classics
Speaker 1: of this week at mckeechern two days ago, one nil
Speaker 1: Acney County and it took overtime to get there. Quad
Speaker 1: A Girls, Your champion is Blessed Trinity one nil winner
Speaker 1: Melosh goal stands up at Duluth. That was the early
Speaker 1: one yesterday, one nil win over Marist five A girls.
Speaker 1: That one is later today five o'clock at Duluth Number
Speaker 1: one rank Roswell. Can they run the table with coach
Speaker 1: de Zing going up against Northgate Northgate coming out of
Speaker 1: Region three as your region champ shut out Decatur, shut
Speaker 1: out river Ridge, gave up one to Loganville and then
Speaker 1: one to Greenbriers. Greenbrier went to Northgate Northgate advancing out
Speaker 1: of the left hand side of the bracket. Right hand
Speaker 1: side of the bracket for Roswell. Roswell as your Region
Speaker 1: seven champ beat Riverwood three to one, shut out Lakeside.
Speaker 1: The cab went to Mount Airy and beat Habs Central
Speaker 1: four to one, and then Roswell beat Pope three to
Speaker 1: one to get to the last game of the year
Speaker 1: Duluth at five o'clock. It is Roswell hosting Northgate six
Speaker 1: eight Girls Championship once again catching up with Jason Page
Speaker 1: took pe K's and it ended up with Walton knocking
Speaker 1: off Buford. Can't say enough about Meghan Hill in the
Speaker 1: program up there at Buford. I know that they are
Speaker 1: disappointed getting one went away from taking home the trophy,
Speaker 1: but it's been a fantastic season. Looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: how they continue to come back next year, strong physical
Speaker 1: presences heading to Division I schools, a very young row
Speaker 1: at points, and so it will be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how Buford responds coming back next year after graduation. But
Speaker 1: still a lot of young talent there for Megan Hill
Speaker 1: and the Buford Wolves Private, the Private Girls champ Love
Speaker 1: It over GAC by the final of one nil. That
Speaker 1: one was Wednesday, five o'clock at Duluth and Love It
Speaker 1: Over GAC. GAC had been ranked. They had shut out
Speaker 1: all of their opponents in the postseason, shut out Saint Francis,
Speaker 1: in the three point thirty, shut out Darlington, in the
Speaker 1: three fourteen, shut out Calvary Day, in the three six
Speaker 1: shut out Whitfield Academy, in the three to ten, Love
Speaker 1: it getting there coming out of the low left part
Speaker 1: of the bracket as Team five shutout kings Ridge, shut
Speaker 1: out Fellowship, Christian gave up one to Wesley and I
Speaker 1: think the result was probably a big shock for a
Speaker 1: lot of folks in the Private classification. And then Love
Speaker 1: It shutting out Holy Innocence to get to the last
Speaker 1: game of the year, the melhisch goal stands up one
Speaker 1: nil win there on the Private side, and that's where
Speaker 1: we are so remember it is mercer making, it is Duluth.
Speaker 1: It is five and seven point thirty if the five
Speaker 1: o'clock game ends in regulation, double A five A five
Speaker 1: A at Duluth, Double A at River Ridge, NFHS network
Speaker 1: if you can't get there, and it will be great
Speaker 1: to see the final champs that will be decided here
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty five season. When it comes to
Speaker 1: the sport of soccer, that's your rundown. And thanks to
Speaker 1: everybody all season long, Thanks to all the coaches, administrators, fans,
Speaker 1: all of you that have sent in ideas and questions
Speaker 1: and everything so we can continue to tell the stories
Speaker 1: here around the state of Georgia. That's been another great
Speaker 1: season of soccer is in session, whether it was weekly
Speaker 1: during the regular season or the sprint that is playoff
Speaker 1: daily live. And I can't speak highly enough about all
Speaker 1: the coaches that I was sending emails to or texting
Speaker 1: either late at night or first thing in the morning
Speaker 1: trying to get them to jump on shows. Y'all are
Speaker 1: the best across the board in one of the great
Speaker 1: states to be able to tell these stories all season long.
Speaker 1: When it comes to high school soccer here in the
Speaker 1: state of Georgia. So for everybody here at SDH for Nick, Jareded, Maddie, Jason,
Speaker 1: Sophia and myself, I'm just John John Nelson. Thanks for
Speaker 1: hanging out with us for another season of Soccer is
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Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz on the weekend as it Land United takes
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia Union. Reminder, the Atlanta United two match with
Speaker 1: Crown Legacy has been postponed because of the surface at
Speaker 1: fifth third. No makeup date has yet been announced for
Speaker 1: that particular match. We'll let you know, because as the
Speaker 1: home of the twos, we'll let you know when that happens.
Speaker 1: Then we will be back at it again Monday morning
Speaker 1: at nine oh five for another go around of SDH AM.
Speaker 1: We'll walk you through what happened in Major League Soccer,
Speaker 1: walk you through what happened with Atlanta United, walk you
Speaker 1: through everything else that happened on the weekend, and we'll
Speaker 1: be here right back at it again nine oh five
Speaker 1: on Monday morning. It's another go round of Soccer is
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