Speaker 1: Welcome to another go around of Soccer's in session Playoff
Speaker 1: Daily Live, presented by our friends at Kaiser Permanente. John,
Speaker 1: hear you there, and as always, once again, thanks for
Speaker 1: hanging out with us here for this hour as we
Speaker 1: run as fast as humanly possible through all your brackets
Speaker 1: and get you ready for now the semifinals. Now that
Speaker 1: the quarterfinals are done, we're going to catch up with
Speaker 1: some coaches coming up here on the show. Meghan Hill,
Speaker 1: the head coach at Buford, Aaron Paul out at Morgan County.
Speaker 1: But first batting lead off it is Heather Richardson, the
Speaker 1: head coach at Social Circle. It's always great to catch
Speaker 1: up with her. She's got another big matchup coming up. Coach,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Hi, thanks for having me all right, So,
Speaker 1: last time we talked, it was leading into round number
Speaker 1: one as Team four ranked number five took care of
Speaker 1: Harrelson County four nil. Then it was knocking off Dodge
Speaker 1: Team thirteen seven to one. You did that at home
Speaker 1: and then Dade came to Social Circle. You got the
Speaker 1: win two nil. What have you learned about yourself in
Speaker 1: these three rounds?
Speaker 2: I feel like with the team and myself we've gotten
Speaker 2: a little better each time, even though the scores look
Speaker 2: kind of weird. I think our game, our most recent
Speaker 2: game against Ade, we played the best that we have
Speaker 2: in a while. We moved the ball around well, we
Speaker 2: passed the ball around. The score didn't look like it,
Speaker 2: but we really played well.
Speaker 3: So I'm good. I feel good about that game going
Speaker 3: into the next game.
Speaker 1: And that next game is against Breaman and Breamen Team
Speaker 1: one ranked number one. You look at the left hand
Speaker 1: side of the bracketing Class A D one girls. This
Speaker 1: is two heavyweights. How much studying do you get in?
Speaker 1: Does everybody kind of know going in? Does Bremen sit there,
Speaker 1: Does Jason sit there and go yeah, I know? Social circle?
Speaker 1: Do you sit there and go yeah, I know, Breemen?
Speaker 1: What's the mindset?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I do think we definitely know each other.
Speaker 2: We played each other earlier in the season and we
Speaker 2: ended up losing that game four to one, but we
Speaker 2: were tied one to one at halftime.
Speaker 3: So I've done a lot of studying.
Speaker 2: The girls have done a lot of studying, and we
Speaker 2: have some things we're gonna put in place, do a
Speaker 2: couple of different things to hopefully come out on top.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, what did you learn about
Speaker 1: yourself coming into that matchup? In a matchup like that
Speaker 1: that is non region, that's an early season test. How
Speaker 1: much of that is experimenting or just kind of seeing
Speaker 1: where you are against top flight competition. Obviously you want
Speaker 1: to try and win it, but how much of that
Speaker 1: is trying to figure out where you are at that
Speaker 1: point of the season.
Speaker 2: For us, it was definitely where are we at this
Speaker 2: point in the season. And because of that game, I've
Speaker 2: done a lot of I've done a few changes and
Speaker 2: they've been positive changes. So even though we lost that game,
Speaker 2: it was probably one of the most beneficial games we
Speaker 2: played all year.
Speaker 1: In five nine and one in region play, you've only
Speaker 1: given up twenty five goals now all season long, and
Speaker 1: twenty one matches, and so twenty five and twenty one,
Speaker 1: that's one you're having me do math. So four over
Speaker 1: twenty one is like at one point two, you know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that matchup and it's you look at that
Speaker 1: game there. That was kind of tucked in with the
Speaker 1: matchup with Jackson County and Walnut Grove before you end
Speaker 1: up going with the playoffs, So you were pretty much
Speaker 1: you were done with your region play at that point,
Speaker 1: so you had UAA, Breaman, Jackson County, and Walnut Grove
Speaker 1: to wrap up the season. So it seems like you
Speaker 1: did want to learn a lot about yourself after the
Speaker 1: Lamar County loss in region play and then winning UAA.
Speaker 1: It's literally going up against Breeman, Jackson County, and Walnut Grove.
Speaker 1: It looks like you did want to try to figure
Speaker 1: out some things heading into the postseason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even though you know, those last three games
Speaker 2: weren't didn't come out for us, they were a positive
Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 3: We learned a lot about ourselves.
Speaker 2: We had to we had to buckle down and play
Speaker 2: really hard, and it really just I think those games
Speaker 2: prepared us for a game like we're going to have tomorrow.
Speaker 1: How do you in a situation like that where region's done,
Speaker 1: you know pretty much what's going on. How do you
Speaker 1: break that you know news to the players, It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a yes butt situation almost where yes, you do
Speaker 1: want to win, but you're challenging yourselves. Don't get necessarily
Speaker 1: wrapped up in the result, because in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things, it doesn't matter. Just get wrapped up in
Speaker 1: what you're trying to learn. How do you pass that
Speaker 1: message along to your players.
Speaker 2: It's a hard message to pass along, I tell you,
Speaker 2: especially with the girls I have, because they're just so
Speaker 2: passionate about winning. But they also there's a lot of
Speaker 2: them with a lot of experience, and they understand the
Speaker 2: ebb and flow of a season, and they understand the
Speaker 2: process that it is.
Speaker 3: That it's really a process. And you know, it's great
Speaker 3: for your record to look like.
Speaker 2: You're winning every game, but if you're not winning any
Speaker 2: if you're not learning anything from from that schedule that
Speaker 2: you have, then it's not helpful.
Speaker 3: At all when you get deep in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So I think I have some older girls who definitely
Speaker 2: understand that, and they help the younger girls understand that.
Speaker 2: But it takes a lot of talking from me to
Speaker 2: help everybody understand it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And is it different coaching now when you're trying
Speaker 1: to have messages like that than it was, say maybe
Speaker 1: even five years ago. One graduating class through is coaching
Speaker 1: and messaging different, trying to get them to understand certain
Speaker 1: aspects that it's not wrapped up in all of the
Speaker 1: wins and losses. Yeah, they're great, but we got to
Speaker 1: focus on other things. Is messaging and coaching different even
Speaker 1: say five years ago?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I think I've even learned from five years
Speaker 2: ago that it's not all about your wins and losses
Speaker 2: all the time. That you really learn a lot from
Speaker 2: the teams that you play, and the schedule that you
Speaker 2: put in place is really important and it you know,
Speaker 2: it's it helps prepare you for the end of the season.
Speaker 2: And it's a difficult message to get across, but it's
Speaker 2: one that's important, I think, and one that I've learned from,
Speaker 2: you know, twenty seventeen. I think we went to the
Speaker 2: Final four in twenty seventeen, but we were our record
Speaker 2: was not great. I think we lost the first six
Speaker 2: games of the season, and that was a learning lesson
Speaker 2: for me even so.
Speaker 1: I mean, so you lose your first six that way through,
Speaker 1: and that was you know, you mentioned it's a learning
Speaker 1: lesson for you. Is are we talking scheduling, approach, philosophy, practice?
Speaker 5: What did you learn from then to now?
Speaker 2: I learned that just because you're losing doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: when you get in the postseason it's going to be
Speaker 2: it can't be a positive result because we were playing
Speaker 2: bigger schools. The first six games of that season, they
Speaker 2: were bigger schools and they were just preparing us for later.
Speaker 2: And I even didn't quite understand that because that was
Speaker 2: my first I think that was my first season i'd
Speaker 2: coached at Social Circle, so I hadn't made the schedule,
Speaker 2: and when I looked at it and we were losing,
Speaker 2: and we were losing, I was like, oh.
Speaker 3: My goodness.
Speaker 2: But then but then once we got through region, I
Speaker 2: got in the postseason, I was like, oh, well, I
Speaker 2: think that actually helped us out a little bit.
Speaker 3: So it was learning from me as well.
Speaker 1: Eleven different goals scored for you this year. But I
Speaker 1: know everybody gravitates toward Alana Ferguson, who last time I checked,
Speaker 1: I think just had under sixties fifty seven goals this year.
Speaker 5: For her, what has it been like to see her
Speaker 5: this season?
Speaker 1: And then obviously I'll have the follow up about her
Speaker 1: career itself, but what's it been like to see her
Speaker 1: in her senior year.
Speaker 3: It's been great. She's played great.
Speaker 2: She does a good job for us at the striker position,
Speaker 2: and I don't even think on her club team that's
Speaker 2: really the position that she normally plays. So she's she's
Speaker 2: taken she's taken that role for us, and she's doing
Speaker 2: a great job. And even in the last game, you know,
Speaker 2: we won two to zero, but she didn't score in
Speaker 2: that game, but she had I think two of the
Speaker 2: assists that the assist for those goals. So she's she's
Speaker 2: just a great player for us, whether she needs to score,
Speaker 2: whether she needs to pull back and help us out
Speaker 2: and pass the ball around. But she's been fun to
Speaker 2: watch this year.
Speaker 1: Do you remember your first impression of her when you
Speaker 1: got her out on the.
Speaker 4: Practice field when she was in ninth grade.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when she was in ninth grade.
Speaker 2: Yes, just my first impression was is this girl is
Speaker 2: very fast. She is definitely going to do some good
Speaker 2: things for us. I just didn't know how quite good.
Speaker 2: She's always been just very quiet and she does the
Speaker 2: job that you know, she's been asked to do. And
Speaker 2: this year, coming into her senior year after graduating, Peyton
Speaker 2: and some other seniors like it was her turn and
Speaker 2: she needed to step up and be that person for us,
Speaker 2: and she's.
Speaker 3: Done a good job with that.
Speaker 1: When I mentioned this senior class specifically, what sticks out
Speaker 1: in your mind.
Speaker 2: Just how far that they have come and the accomplishments
Speaker 2: that they've had. They've and I told them this, you know,
Speaker 2: at the at the end of our last game, they
Speaker 2: have four region championships, They've made it to the final
Speaker 2: four four times, the state championship game twice. So they
Speaker 2: just have accolades that doesn't happen all the time, that
Speaker 2: they don't need to take for granted that it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's really a big deal and I'm very, very proud
Speaker 2: of what they've accomplished.
Speaker 1: Have you thought about their legacy, even though I know
Speaker 1: this season isn't over. Regular season is, but if you
Speaker 1: thought about the legacy that they're leaving behind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a legacy to just for the younger girls
Speaker 2: to hope want what they've accomplished so that we can
Speaker 2: continue that, just continue what they started and just keep
Speaker 2: pushing forward every season. Just the winning tradition. And they
Speaker 2: just they're so passionate about the team and everything. It
Speaker 2: means so much to them. And I just I talked
Speaker 2: to them at lunch just a few minutes ago and
Speaker 2: they were like, Coach, we're so excited, We're ready to go.
Speaker 2: I'm like, just chill out because it's not till tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad you're excited, so.
Speaker 5: You have to travel.
Speaker 1: When it comes to other things that you have to navigate,
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier navigating, you know, a home.
Speaker 5: Match and everything.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, everybody needs to be here at this
Speaker 1: time to do this and do this and do this right.
Speaker 1: When it comes to traveling, and I'm and i'm you
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing while I'm talking to you is
Speaker 1: I'm setting the path. I'm trying to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: how long is it to go from social circle to Breemen?
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to do this on lovely Google Maps,
Speaker 1: and so the Google Maps machine is telling me that
Speaker 1: it's ninety three and a half miles if you left
Speaker 1: right now to go out eye twenty to go to Bremen,
Speaker 1: so hour and a half or an or two hours
Speaker 1: with traffic depending on time of day. Have you figured
Speaker 1: out your travel plans navigating academics with departures and things
Speaker 1: like that. What is the day looking like so the
Speaker 1: student athlete can get done what they can and at
Speaker 1: the same time hop on the bus and get out
Speaker 1: to Bremen in one piece?
Speaker 5: How are you plotting how all of this is going
Speaker 5: to fit together.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot that goes into it, actually, but
Speaker 2: my ADMIN is great and they think of things like
Speaker 2: they've come to me and said, well, this kid and
Speaker 2: this kid has an ap test on Thursday at twelve o'clock,
Speaker 2: so they're going to need to take it on the
Speaker 2: makeup day on May the nineteenth. And then we have
Speaker 2: some kids taking APUs history on Friday morning at eight.
Speaker 2: Are they going to get home too late? Do they
Speaker 2: need to take the makeup test on May the twentieth?
Speaker 2: It's an hour and forty five minutes to get there.
Speaker 2: Do I want to get there you know at four o'clock?
Speaker 2: Do you want to get there at four thirty? Do
Speaker 2: I need to get there at three? And I think
Speaker 2: one when the seniors were in tenth grade, I think
Speaker 2: the final four game when we played PI DAYA in
Speaker 2: the Final four, we got there so early just because
Speaker 2: we were worried about the Atlanta traffic and I was like,
Speaker 2: this is too long to be sitting here. So hopefully
Speaker 2: tomorrow I got at time to just right and all
Speaker 2: the roadwork in the traffic in Atlanta will cooperate and
Speaker 2: we'll get there in just the right amount of time
Speaker 2: where we're not you know, we're not running late, but
Speaker 2: we're not there too early. So yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 2: and we got food coming, got to feed them before
Speaker 2: we go, but can't be too heavy, so you know,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of stuff. But it's fun.
Speaker 2: I'm glad we're here. I'd do it over again all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: That's why I like to ask these questions about all
Speaker 1: of the stuff that folks may not know about when
Speaker 1: it comes to orchestrating all these things, so everyone can
Speaker 1: understand all of the effort that goes in on the field,
Speaker 1: off the field, in the the academic element of it.
Speaker 5: When it comes to the administration, they're.
Speaker 2: Right in the middle of testing right now with eoc's
Speaker 2: and aps and all sorts of testing.
Speaker 1: Yep, iikes, Yeah, I'm not gonna comment about my AP
Speaker 1: European Exam. I'm not gonna comment that at all. All right,
Speaker 1: so the travel plans, when are you leaving? When are
Speaker 1: you getting there?
Speaker 5: Wins the match at Bream and let everybody know.
Speaker 2: We're getting out of class. The girls are excited, but
Speaker 2: they still think they should be getting out earlier. At
Speaker 2: one thirty tomorrow, We're gonna get some food down at
Speaker 2: the fieldhouse and leave hopefully by two o'clock and hopefully
Speaker 2: get there by four four fifteen. Then we can get
Speaker 2: taped up and have a few minutes to walk around
Speaker 2: and then get going.
Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be great to see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Titans on the left hand side of
Speaker 1: the bracket. Class eight Division one Girls Social Circle Team
Speaker 1: for ranked number five in the scoreboard rankings, going to
Speaker 1: breem In team one, ranked number one. Coach, as always,
Speaker 1: it's great to catch up with you here on soccer's
Speaker 1: in session, especially when we go live every day during
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Be safe, May every test come.
Speaker 1: Out the way that it's supposed to get safe to Bremen,
Speaker 1: have a great contest. We'll catch up with you on
Speaker 1: the other side. Thanks as always for dropping by.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having us there, goes Heather Richardson,
Speaker 5: the head coach at Social Circle.
Speaker 1: And so once again looking at Class A Division one
Speaker 1: Girls Titans across the board, and then you said, here's
Speaker 1: my bracket. So Class AD one Girl Social Circle at
Speaker 1: Breeman and that one is tomorrow. Girls are tomorrow. When
Speaker 1: it comes to all of your semi final activity boys
Speaker 1: are Friday unless there's a schedule for a doubleheader or
Speaker 1: things like that. So Social Circle at Breaman left hand
Speaker 1: side of the bracket, Model travels to ACE Charter. Model
Speaker 1: knocked off Thomasville by the score of two to nil,
Speaker 1: and so Model went to Thomasville, got the win. Team
Speaker 1: number six, ranked number two travels to ACE Charter, who
Speaker 1: is team two, ranked number three. Ace Charter knocked off
Speaker 1: East Lawns by the score of four nils. So you
Speaker 1: have in the rankings number five at number one, and
Speaker 1: you have number two at number three. That's Class A
Speaker 1: Division one girls, and that happens tomorrow once again. Model
Speaker 1: at Ace Charter, Social Circle at Breaman Heavyweights on the
Speaker 1: left hand side. Class A Division two Girls. Just so
Speaker 1: you know, it is ACA ACA traveling to Irwin County.
Speaker 1: Irwin County beat Elite Scholars three to two at Buddy
Speaker 1: Nobles yesterday in Ocilla, so Erwin County gets to host
Speaker 1: since they are Area one team number one, ranked number seven,
Speaker 1: they host ACA Atlanta Classical. They went to Screven County,
Speaker 1: went all the way out to Sylvania, got the win yesterday,
Speaker 1: and so it is ACA ranked number five at Erwin
Speaker 1: County ranked number seven.
Speaker 5: That one is tomorrow.
Speaker 1: LOA is ranked number three as Area five team number one.
Speaker 1: They beat Portal by the score of five to one.
Speaker 1: Portal came in as the number six ranked team in
Speaker 1: the scoreboard rankings, and they came in Area three's team
Speaker 1: number two. LA travels to try on try on ranked
Speaker 1: number one. Area six is team number one, had the
Speaker 1: first round by shut out Green County and then shut
Speaker 1: out Claxton yesterday by the score of four and n
Speaker 1: il so it is ranked number five at ranked number seven,
Speaker 1: ranked number three at ranked number one.
Speaker 5: So that's what you're looking.
Speaker 1: At with Irwin County hosting in Oscilla as Area one
Speaker 1: team number one. ACA is a team number three out
Speaker 1: of Area number six. That's the left hand side of
Speaker 1: the bracket. Right hand side of the bracket. LA number
Speaker 1: one team out of Area five ranked number three, and
Speaker 1: then try on once again Area six team one ranked
Speaker 1: number one.
Speaker 5: That is Class A.
Speaker 1: D two girls. Now let's go to double A. Let
Speaker 1: you know what happened there, and it was all Columbus
Speaker 1: all the time. By that that's on the the that's
Speaker 1: in Triple A. Sorry, I'm a class ahead of myself.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second. So Coholla Creek
Speaker 1: went to Drew Charters, shut out d Chartered by the
Speaker 1: score of three nils. So Kahula Creek advances, and they
Speaker 1: go to Zebuln to take on Pike County. Pike County
Speaker 1: no problems with Sonorville, and so Coahula Creek Team five
Speaker 1: ranked number five. With their shutout at Drew Charter, they
Speaker 1: advanced to take on Team one, number one ranked Pike County.
Speaker 1: That's the left hand side of the bracket, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen in zebulent right hand side of the bracket.
Speaker 1: Morgan County on the girls side, shuts out Miller Grove
Speaker 1: to start, shut out Murray County in round two, then
Speaker 1: went to Columbus and got the win there. So Morgan
Speaker 1: County number two and number one. So you've got Morgan
Speaker 1: County beat Columbus by the score of two to one.
Speaker 1: So Morgan County advances, and they're going to take on
Speaker 1: Savannah Arts. Savannah Arts one at home, shutting out Pierced
Speaker 1: by the score of one nil. So Morgan County advances
Speaker 1: to Savannah Arts. Kaholla Creek goes to Pike County. It
Speaker 1: is the number five ranked team at the number one
Speaker 1: ranked team, the number four ranked team at the number
Speaker 1: six ranked team. So once again call Holla Creek on
Speaker 1: the road to Pike County, Morgan County to Savannah Arts
Speaker 1: and we'll catch up with Aaron Paul and find out
Speaker 1: about the Morgan County program across the board coming up
Speaker 1: in twelve forty so in about twenty a little over
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. Triple A Girls, this is another day once
Speaker 1: again where your semi final, your quarter finalists had a
Speaker 1: lot of offense on the board. Jefferson hosted Dawson County
Speaker 1: and Jefferson got the shutout. They advanced. They're gonna host
Speaker 1: Cherokee Bluff, who shut out Gilmer's Girls. So Cherokee Bluff
Speaker 1: advances to take on Jefferson left side of the bracket
Speaker 1: and Triple A Jefferson Team one ranked number one, and
Speaker 1: Molly McCarty, we are trying to track her down so
Speaker 1: we can have her on the show. This hour is
Speaker 1: where it's one of the most challenging to get folks
Speaker 1: to cover for us, So we're gonna see if we can.
Speaker 1: If we have to do something, maybe in the morning
Speaker 1: show early on nine o'clock hour, we can catch up
Speaker 1: whether they are or we can catch up with her
Speaker 1: on tape and try and run it tomorrow as a
Speaker 1: part of a Soccer's in session Playoff Daily Live. So
Speaker 1: it is Cherokee Bluff ranked number three at Jefferson ranked
Speaker 1: number one. Both teams combined for nineteen goals yesterday. Cherokee
Speaker 1: Bluff ten on Gilmert Jefferson nine on Dawson County. So
Speaker 1: Cherokee Bluff is at Jefferson, left hand side of the bracket,
Speaker 1: A Coney County and this is the game that's going
Speaker 1: to be on the network tomorrow.
Speaker 5: It's going to be on the Mothership. This we do know.
Speaker 1: It is going to be a Coney County at Whitewater.
Speaker 1: We've had a Cony County on our air a couple
Speaker 1: of times already this year. We had a Cony County's
Speaker 1: opening round a playoff matchup against Johnson Gainesville on the air,
Speaker 1: and that was number five hosting number ten. That was
Speaker 1: the one that had the hour and twenty minute weather
Speaker 1: delay before we got that one started. A Coney County
Speaker 1: goes to Sandy Creek gets the big win. They're going
Speaker 1: to take on Whitewater Whitewater shut out of Darizel six nil.
Speaker 1: So it is a Coney County at Whitewater, Cherokee Bluff
Speaker 1: at Jefferson. Cherokee Bluff is ranked number three, traveling to
Speaker 1: number one Jefferson. And in Triple A girls of Cony
Speaker 1: County ranked number five. They've made their way all the
Speaker 1: way through and they get to take on Whitewater who
Speaker 1: is ranked number two, number three, And that is where
Speaker 1: we are in Triple A girls. Now it is time
Speaker 1: to advance in our brackets. As we sit here and
Speaker 1: we flip the page to six A. And why do
Speaker 1: I say this Because I have my six A bracket
Speaker 1: in my hand, and that way when I look at
Speaker 1: the six A bracket, I sit here and look low right,
Speaker 1: and that means I get to catch up with a
Speaker 1: coach that has made it out of the low right
Speaker 1: section of the bracket. Time to catch up with Meghan Hill,
Speaker 1: the head coach of Buford, and we welcome her to
Speaker 1: Soccer's in session Playoff Daily Live.
Speaker 5: Coach. Welcome aboard, Thank you, hobby.
Speaker 6: By, thank you so much for having me all right, have.
Speaker 5: You had time to catch your breath in the battle
Speaker 5: of number one versus Number two.
Speaker 7: Yet, Yeah, we were able to catch our breath. We
Speaker 7: enjoyed that night and then it was back to business
Speaker 7: the next day. So here we are just trying to
Speaker 7: prepare for the quick two day turnaround.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to get into that and in just
Speaker 1: a second, but I want to walk through the playoffs
Speaker 1: here in just a in this first little bit, shut
Speaker 1: out west Lake and round number one, shut out Cherokee
Speaker 1: in round number two. What do you learn about yourself
Speaker 1: with a club that is nationally ranked, that is winning
Speaker 1: handily in games like that? What do you learn about
Speaker 1: yourself in the postseason when you win by such large margins?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 7: Try, just trying to do those little things right for us.
Speaker 7: It was not about can we can we shut them
Speaker 7: out and can we beat them by ten or seven
Speaker 7: or whatever. It's more of is the the goals that
Speaker 7: we are scoring? Are they good goals?
Speaker 6: Are they effective?
Speaker 7: Where did they begin from? Where we able to get
Speaker 7: into the attack and you know, have a have a
Speaker 7: nice decent shot on goal that you know ended up
Speaker 7: being a goal.
Speaker 1: If I had told you that you'd be twenty and
Speaker 1: ozer right now, rank number five in the country, what
Speaker 1: would you have told me?
Speaker 6: Uh, you're crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: We graduated a solid group last year, solid group.
Speaker 7: Of seniors, and coming into this year, you know, to
Speaker 7: be completely honest, I was a little nervous. We graduated
Speaker 7: our senior goalkeeper, and we graduated a lot of leadership,
Speaker 7: and so trying to develop leadership within this team has
Speaker 7: been kind of the foundation of this year.
Speaker 1: So when you get to full song, when do you
Speaker 1: think that was? When do you think that with all
Speaker 1: of the absences, bringing in those individuals that you had
Speaker 1: in those places that you were confident of in your
Speaker 1: starting eleven's most of the time, how long do you
Speaker 1: think it took for you to get to full song? Okay,
Speaker 1: we've got something here. I know what we have. When
Speaker 1: did that level of comfort in quotation marks happen?
Speaker 6: Do you think I think.
Speaker 7: That last week of regular season play it took a
Speaker 7: long time, because, Uh, to be honest with you, we
Speaker 7: have not had our full roster. Uh since that last
Speaker 7: playoff excuse me, since that last regular season game. We
Speaker 7: had injuries. We've had players leave for ECNL events. We've
Speaker 7: had you know, El Salvadori, a national team.
Speaker 6: Ava left she was out for six games.
Speaker 7: So, h we have not we had not had a
Speaker 7: complete full roster with with being healthy and all of
Speaker 7: our injuries back and everything since that last regular season week.
Speaker 7: So you know that that's kind of when I started
Speaker 7: to realize, like, okay, guys, you know we've got we
Speaker 7: might have something here.
Speaker 1: When you have freshmen and sophomores step in the way
Speaker 1: that they have, what's it like to see those underclassmen
Speaker 1: step up for you and be assertive and be a
Speaker 1: part of those starting elevens as you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really nice to see.
Speaker 7: And honestly, we have one freshman on varsity right now
Speaker 7: and then a handful of sophomores, and you know those
Speaker 7: hand the two sophomores now that we're on varsity last
Speaker 7: year are making a huge impact for us. But within
Speaker 7: our program, we try to develop on it. You know,
Speaker 7: obviously on our JV.
Speaker 6: One of my.
Speaker 7: Assistants, Coach Foyd, developed those girls. Uh so they know, like, okay,
Speaker 7: if if if it's okay to make JV your freshman year,
Speaker 7: if you can step into that varsity role your sophomore year,
Speaker 7: that's kind of what they're trying to She's trying to
Speaker 7: prepare them.
Speaker 1: For when you you know you have the support that
Speaker 1: you get there at Buford, And I mean that from administration,
Speaker 1: from athletics across the board. What's it like to walk
Speaker 1: into a Buford High School every day and try and
Speaker 1: and you know, because the expectation is always there, regardless
Speaker 1: of what the sport is.
Speaker 5: Yes, what's it What's it.
Speaker 1: Like to to have the support and the expectations that
Speaker 1: are there.
Speaker 5: What's it like to have that yin and yang there?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: It's funny because administrative wise, we are more they're more
Speaker 7: so focused on can you develop a good a good person?
Speaker 7: So they're all about like what is your character development?
Speaker 7: Like what are you doing off the field. But honestly,
Speaker 7: and as you said, it's like everybody on the outside
Speaker 7: of our bubble is the.
Speaker 6: Expectation is to win.
Speaker 7: And honestly, I think that when you if you were
Speaker 7: to walk into Beuford High School, I think the expectation
Speaker 7: starts in the academics and with our dress code and
Speaker 7: with our no cell phones, and there's a strict expectation
Speaker 7: there and that then develops and trickles out onto our
Speaker 7: fields or our courts or whatever it is. This is
Speaker 7: the expectation, This is a standard. It's already set. And
Speaker 7: then you know, we obviously follow in LIU with those
Speaker 7: academic teachers, and you know, if they're not performing academically,
Speaker 7: they don't play on the field.
Speaker 6: So expectations are there.
Speaker 7: I think us coaches put a lot of pressure on
Speaker 7: ourselves too, especially coming in if you know, this is
Speaker 7: my fifth year here, and the pressure is way different,
Speaker 7: not from you know, uh administrative standpoint, but for me
Speaker 7: and for the girls, and I think for us it's
Speaker 7: just like it's it's all those tiny things that that
Speaker 7: help with that. And it starts when you literally when
Speaker 7: you walk into the building in the academic.
Speaker 1: Building, youfor survives a matchup with Brookwood, and so what
Speaker 1: do you get?
Speaker 5: You get West first site. We'll talk.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the murderers row on the right hand
Speaker 1: side of the bridge. Yeah, exactly, the murders row in
Speaker 1: the right hand side.
Speaker 5: Coming up in a bit.
Speaker 1: For those that may not know your history, you do
Speaker 1: have a history of being a head coach in Gwennett County,
Speaker 1: but you were also a GA if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: for Jay Entlick down at Columbus State. What did you
Speaker 1: learn from j J has been a great friend of
Speaker 1: ours here at the SDH network when it comes to
Speaker 1: what he's been building at Columbus State. Yes, what did
Speaker 1: you learn from your time down with j? Because I
Speaker 1: mean Jay class at top to bottom with a great
Speaker 1: program top to bottom.
Speaker 5: What did you learn with your time down there?
Speaker 7: So Jay at Lick I was a GA and then
Speaker 7: he ended up hiring me as his assistant for about
Speaker 7: a year and a half until I got into Gwenette
Speaker 7: and Jay Atlick is one of my mentors. If I
Speaker 7: have an issue, if I have a problem, if I
Speaker 7: have a question, or I'm questioning myself, He's the first
Speaker 7: person that I call, and he he has been such
Speaker 7: a mentor to me because of the way that he coaches.
Speaker 7: He's very direct, he's very straightforward. Uh, he does not
Speaker 7: beat around the bush. And then he also is able
Speaker 7: to have relationships with those players who respect him. But
Speaker 7: I think demanding excellence and understanding the game for me
Speaker 7: came a lot from him in that college world. So
Speaker 7: I'm very, very grateful for Jay. And it's funny that
Speaker 7: you guys even mentioned his name because I was actually
Speaker 7: about to call him tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Jay's great with us. When we cover Columbus
Speaker 1: State and Division two what's the first lesson that you
Speaker 1: learned from him that has stuck?
Speaker 6: Ooh, that's a great question. I think.
Speaker 7: I think honestly developing a quality practice plan and organizing
Speaker 7: a practice to prepare for the team that you're about
Speaker 7: to play, but also focusing on solely yourself without focusing
Speaker 7: too much on the other team.
Speaker 6: If that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, I mean, And that kind of was
Speaker 1: my leading into my next question. So obviously you're reading
Speaker 1: my notes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I see them there on your desk.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're all over the place.
Speaker 1: So because of a quick turn, because of the bracket
Speaker 1: being the bracket of doom on the right hand side
Speaker 1: in six A, it is insane to see, but that's
Speaker 1: because of how things are with rotations and regions this
Speaker 1: time around that you have West for Scythe, Duford and.
Speaker 5: Brookwood all on.
Speaker 1: One side of the bracket. Knowing what you know about
Speaker 1: West for Scythe, do you focus more on yourself because
Speaker 1: of the quick turn or do you do some mix
Speaker 1: or assistants looking you know, leading into the Brookwood game,
Speaker 1: or looking at who you could be playing as somebody
Speaker 1: watching North tape, somebody watching West for scythe tape or are
Speaker 1: you focusing on yourself.
Speaker 7: Funny you say that I have a I have a
Speaker 7: lot of quality assistance, and they are folks that they
Speaker 7: will watch some of West Forscyth. But my job is
Speaker 7: to is to prepare my team and not focus on
Speaker 7: West Forscyth. And so we rewatched Brookwood and figured figured
Speaker 7: out some things that we maybe didn't do very well
Speaker 7: that we could have definitely taken more advantage of. And
Speaker 7: I think that that's what we have going into West
Speaker 7: Forscyth is focusing on us, focusing on our game plan,
Speaker 7: getting my girls mindset right and making sure that you
Speaker 7: know they're not going to forget how to play soccer
Speaker 7: in a day. So and that's also what Jay and
Speaker 7: Lick taught me, uh that you also have to focus
Speaker 7: on the mental aspect of things too, and with girls,
Speaker 7: that's extremely significant, especially with that two day turnaround. So
Speaker 7: we were doing a lot of a lot of mental
Speaker 7: mindset stuff yesterday and then today we'll be back out
Speaker 7: on a field and getting ready prepared for that.
Speaker 1: It should be a packed house of around twelve hundred. Again,
Speaker 1: it's a great environment that has been created there at
Speaker 1: Buford for the sports that are the spring sports, the
Speaker 1: ones that aren't the marquee sports they are, but the
Speaker 1: ones that are garnering attention. So when someone tries to
Speaker 1: find their way into the venue, perhaps they get a
Speaker 1: ticket and they're trying to find a place to sit.
Speaker 1: When West Verscyth comes to town, who should they gravitate toward?
Speaker 1: And who will they gravitate toward in that starting eleven?
Speaker 1: If things are going well for you against West Verscyth,
Speaker 1: who will the audience be gravitating toward in your starting eleven?
Speaker 6: Oh gosh, So that is a tough one to answer
Speaker 6: because so many of my.
Speaker 5: Roles are all eleven of them just go ahead.
Speaker 7: And liked by all of our faculty and staff. I
Speaker 7: think every single person. Yesterday, all my players have said,
Speaker 7: like Coach Hill, everybody's asking me and talking to me
Speaker 7: about the games like and.
Speaker 6: I said, yeah, because they care about you.
Speaker 7: And and it's funny because, like I don't know, you
Speaker 7: always get your goal scorers, and you know, there's not
Speaker 7: a lot of credit given to the back line and
Speaker 7: kind of what they solidify and hold down for us.
Speaker 7: But I mean, obviously you got to score goals to win.
Speaker 7: So whoever scores the goals first I think, you know,
Speaker 7: they'll obviously have that crowd rally around them, but honestly,
Speaker 7: you know, I can't. The defense is solid for us too,
Speaker 7: so I just it's kind of even even keel.
Speaker 1: And well, so let's talk about that defense. You've only
Speaker 1: given up and it's brought to us by the number nine.
Speaker 1: By the way, goals scored ninety nine. So the next
Speaker 1: one that gets scored is goal one hundred. For you
Speaker 1: on the season, you've only given up nine in twenty matches.
Speaker 1: So to have a keeper, you know, a keeper step
Speaker 1: in to have the back line be what they are
Speaker 1: and it is, it is difficult to get around and
Speaker 1: through that back line of yours with the back four
Speaker 1: when it's locked in place the way that it was
Speaker 1: specifically against Brookwood. Brookwood was having problems. There were a
Speaker 1: couple of opportunities that they had in transitions where there
Speaker 1: were turnovers in the middle third. But your back four
Speaker 1: and your keeper have been incredibly solid this year. What's
Speaker 1: it been like to see them shine?
Speaker 7: It's nice, you know, I have an assistant that works,
Speaker 7: you know, focuses specifically on the defense, and then and
Speaker 7: then we have coaches that specifically work with our attacking third,
Speaker 7: and so she's been working with them getting their mindset
Speaker 7: right and understanding like being able to protect. When one
Speaker 7: steps out of position, the other one covers. So we
Speaker 7: call our back line like the onion. There's there's a
Speaker 7: lot of layers within our back line, even though there's
Speaker 7: only four of them. And so you know, even my
Speaker 7: middle third, my my center mids know. You know, if
Speaker 7: you get beat, you've got to protect the onion. So
Speaker 7: we have to make sure that that is always protected.
Speaker 7: We are always layered in behind, and we're we don't
Speaker 7: get caught out of position too much.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: So it is west first sight at Beaufort after surviving Brookwood,
Speaker 1: number one and number two in the rankings.
Speaker 5: Guess what number three is coming to town.
Speaker 1: Lay it all out for for folks who are going
Speaker 1: to be trying to get a ticket to get into
Speaker 1: the building.
Speaker 5: The when, the how.
Speaker 1: Let everybody know how they can go see some quality
Speaker 1: soccer when you get to a host for site this
Speaker 1: time around.
Speaker 7: So we uh, first of all, I hate rankings. Let
Speaker 7: me just go ahead and throw that out there, because
Speaker 7: that's all it is about, is the rankings. And really
Speaker 7: it's just a a coaches group just looking at schedules,
Speaker 7: strength to schedule in this and rankings.
Speaker 6: Anyways, I'll put that plug in there for you.
Speaker 7: But the game, for sure, we'll have an we'll have
Speaker 7: our back gate open as well with our ticket taker there.
Speaker 7: There was only one gate open last time, so there
Speaker 7: will be two interests, one for the away fans to
Speaker 7: come in and then obviously one for our home fans
Speaker 7: to come in. So but gates will be open an
Speaker 7: hour before kickoff and it's going to be a great environment.
Speaker 7: And I think that there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 7: bodies up close to the fence yelling and scream. It's
Speaker 7: a different environment than a massive stadium environment.
Speaker 6: Everybody is very close. It's very intimate and you know,
Speaker 6: hopefully we can hope for the best.
Speaker 5: All right, what time is kick kickoffs?
Speaker 4: That's six o'clock all right, so.
Speaker 1: It's another dinner time kick there at going up against
Speaker 1: West Forscyth. After getting through Brookwood, you're now survivor of
Speaker 1: your bracket, your low right bracket, your your quadrant and
Speaker 1: now you get West for scythe great to see you
Speaker 1: the other day for the match, right to have you
Speaker 1: coming to the show and go get some lunch and
Speaker 1: have a great match against West for Scyth.
Speaker 5: Great to see.
Speaker 6: Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: You bet Meghan Hill the head coach at Buford, and
Speaker 1: she's got West forsythe.
Speaker 5: I mean literally, you look, you look at the six
Speaker 5: A bracket.
Speaker 1: It's like you look at it and you're going, okay,
Speaker 1: three nationally ranked teams, three in the top five nationally.
Speaker 1: They get paired in the right hand side. But once
Speaker 1: again has to do with the RODA. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it should, maybe there should be some math in
Speaker 1: future years when it comes to, you know, things like
Speaker 1: this to where you have these teams playing later, like later,
Speaker 1: not like last round, quick turn, but later. Just saying anyway,
Speaker 1: uh so West Verscyth and Beauford that match up six
Speaker 1: o'clock on the Buford campus. And remember, and I learned
Speaker 1: this too, it is not at Tom Riden. It is
Speaker 1: on the new campus at the high school where they
Speaker 1: have a back to back press box that can watch
Speaker 1: two matches at any given time. So if like lacrosse
Speaker 1: is going on and soccer is going on, or you
Speaker 1: have practice and you need to have it shot, it
Speaker 1: literally is back to back. It is a back to
Speaker 1: back press box and fields that are neighboring each other.
Speaker 1: So the soccer uh the soccer stadium has football goalposts,
Speaker 1: so you can have multiple teams practicing and doing things
Speaker 1: more than one one group at a time. But on
Speaker 1: the new campus that's where it is. It's not up
Speaker 1: the hill, hang left and go up the hill to
Speaker 1: tom riding on the grass surface. It is on the
Speaker 1: new campus. So if you're going, get your tickets ahead
Speaker 1: of time. If you're going, go early so you can
Speaker 1: find a place to park. Full disclosure. I made a
Speaker 1: place to park because I got there like right before
Speaker 1: kickoff because I had to have the battery replaced on
Speaker 1: my car.
Speaker 5: You remember that.
Speaker 1: So West Rosythe and Buford six o'clock six. A other
Speaker 1: semi final is Lambert at Walton. Lambert rank number six,
Speaker 1: ten nine in pks against Mill Creek goal us after
Speaker 1: eighty ninety and one hundred and it ended up Lambert
Speaker 1: getting the win ten nine and pks.
Speaker 5: They go to Walton.
Speaker 1: Walton went to Harrison shut out the Hoyas one nil.
Speaker 1: So it is a number six Lambert at number five
Speaker 1: Walton and it is number three West Verscyth at number
Speaker 1: two Buford. That's six A girl going backwards Quad A
Speaker 1: Girls Cambridge and Maris. Cambridge shut out Walnut Grow by
Speaker 1: the score of five nil. They travel to stadler Field
Speaker 1: as Maris beat stars Mill by the score of four
Speaker 1: to one. So Cambridge, your number two set out of
Speaker 1: Region six, ranked number four, takes on Maris, the number
Speaker 1: two ranked team in Quad A Region champ out of
Speaker 1: Region five. Left hand side of the bracket. BT goes
Speaker 1: to Alatuna because once again, remember if you are in
Speaker 1: your brackets and you're the same seed coin flip that
Speaker 1: was held down in Thomaston with the GHSA goes to
Speaker 1: the lower lower half. So Blessed Trinity beat Saint Pius
Speaker 1: two to one in the Battle of number one and
Speaker 1: number six off of off of a Highway nine and
Speaker 1: Holcomb Bridge, which I think turns into Alpharetta Road at
Speaker 1: that point. I think once you clear Highway nine and
Speaker 1: you're heading toward Roswell, it's just past Roswell High School.
Speaker 1: So BT travels to Alatuona. Alatoona beat north of Coney
Speaker 1: in a back and forth affair. Seven goals scored. Alatoona
Speaker 1: got four of them. So Alatuna goes to North of Cony,
Speaker 1: gets the win in Watkinsville. Then they now host because
Speaker 1: they're the Region champ, number five ranked team in the
Speaker 1: scoreboard rankings, BT ranked number one, So Cambridge it's number
Speaker 1: four at number two BT it's number one at number
Speaker 1: five Alatuona Cambridge at Marist BT is at ALATOONA. Five
Speaker 1: A girls, it is Greenbrier traveling to northgateon Pope going
Speaker 1: to number one Roswell LASSI went to Greenbrier. Greenbrier got
Speaker 1: the win one nill. So Greenbrier is your Region one champ, unranked,
Speaker 1: has made it all the way to the final four.
Speaker 1: We've seen Greenbrier and Rob Houston as early as the
Speaker 1: Creek Cup this year, and we'll see if we can
Speaker 1: figure out where Rob might be as he's heading to
Speaker 1: Northgate tomorrow. I guess as he might be on the
Speaker 1: bus then. So Greenbrier unranked, they've had a lot of
Speaker 1: the they've had their entire bracket at home and now
Speaker 1: they have to go to Northgate. Northgate beat Loganville five
Speaker 1: to one. So ranked number six, your Region three champ
Speaker 1: is hosting Greenbrier, your region champ out of Region one.
Speaker 1: Left hand side in five A right hand side Pope
Speaker 1: and Roswell. Pope shuts out Alexander three nils So the
Speaker 1: number two ranked Pope. Region six Champ travels to Roswell.
Speaker 1: Roswell ranked number one. Region seven Champ beat the Region
Speaker 1: eight Champ hab Central, who is ranked number eight four
Speaker 1: to one. So five a girls to wrap up the
Speaker 1: girl side of things, Greenbrier at Northgate, Pope at Roswell.
Speaker 1: So that's your rundown of the girls brackets and all
Speaker 1: of those action, All of that action is tomorrow unless
Speaker 1: once again, unless there is a scheduling question or there
Speaker 1: is something else that is a part of all of
Speaker 1: that discussion, and you get to find out literally where
Speaker 1: things go. All right, it is time to check in. Now,
Speaker 1: let's see, last time he was here, coach Aaron Paul
Speaker 1: was in a law class, and so last time he
Speaker 1: was here, he was in law class. And we'll check
Speaker 1: in with We'll check in with Aaron and find out
Speaker 1: if he is still, as a matter of fact, in
Speaker 1: law class or if he has stolen himself away to
Speaker 1: yet another location, and we get to find out where
Speaker 1: he may be hiding and find out what's going on
Speaker 1: out at Morgan County. We bring in Aaron Paul of
Speaker 1: the conversation. So are you hiding?
Speaker 4: Can you see me?
Speaker 5: Not yet?
Speaker 1: Hold on to turn the camera if you wish there
Speaker 1: he is.
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, I am still in law class.
Speaker 5: Actually all right, So what's the lesson today? In law class?
Speaker 4: They're finishing their test on constitutional law, So picking ten
Speaker 4: cases from ten different categories of constitutional law, so executive power,
Speaker 4: legislative power, judicial power, uh, state power, checks and balances
Speaker 4: type stuff, foundations they're so they're just picking one of
Speaker 4: the one of ten cases from different categories and kind
Speaker 4: of summarizing it.
Speaker 1: So okay, So which one of those ten categories would
Speaker 1: apply itself to what Morgan County has been able to
Speaker 1: do on the pitch this season.
Speaker 5: Checks and balances, Yeah, probably checks and balances.
Speaker 4: You're probably looking at like a judicial review Marbury versus
Speaker 4: Madison case. You know, something that that says we can
Speaker 4: do this, but also you can't do this.
Speaker 5: So okay.
Speaker 1: So when you look at when you look at what
Speaker 1: has been going on this season on campus, if if
Speaker 1: we had had the conversation once again beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: if we had been talking about the programs and the
Speaker 1: growth there at Morgan County, and you would have seen
Speaker 1: the lostal accomplishments and successes to get to this point.
Speaker 5: What would you have told me about the growth of
Speaker 5: the program on the whole.
Speaker 4: Hm, I think I think at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 4: I would say it's been tremendous growth over the last decade.
Speaker 4: I mean just sort of. I remember when I interviewed
Speaker 4: in June of twenty fourteen, I just I student taught
Speaker 4: and graduated from Georgia in the fall of thirteen, and
Speaker 4: I student taught at North Quinnette High School. And I
Speaker 4: didn't coach anything when I stuit of teaching, just because
Speaker 4: I was commuting from Athens to swanean back and taking
Speaker 4: you know, taking my class. And the spring of fourteen,
Speaker 4: they actually hired me to teach like two classes at
Speaker 4: North Quinnette. So I helped with spring football practice a
Speaker 4: little bit, but then summer hit and it was kind
Speaker 4: of like, all right, what are you know, where we're
Speaker 4: going to do a job, And where's a job going
Speaker 4: to be. And one of my classmates student taught at
Speaker 4: Morgan and he said they had an opening. So I
Speaker 4: applied and interviewed, and our former athletic director, Steve Syston
Speaker 4: who passed away last year, you know, gave me the
Speaker 4: opportunity of a lifetime to come in. And I remember
Speaker 4: saying then looking at kind of Morgan County soccer up
Speaker 4: until that point, and knew that there was interest in
Speaker 4: the community. We have a club team in town. We're
Speaker 4: back this. This should be when RISA was really big
Speaker 4: in Rockdale and then Athens is so close. I just
Speaker 4: I knew there was a lot of potential and interest,
Speaker 4: and I remember saying in an interview, we have to
Speaker 4: focus on winning our region games. We got to put
Speaker 4: ourselves in a situation to compete for region championships, to
Speaker 4: give ourselves a chance in the playoffs. Well, fast forward,
Speaker 4: we've won five region championships in a row. I think
Speaker 4: I've won seven in ten years or eleven seasons. And
Speaker 4: then I know, like my senior class right now, who
Speaker 4: just finished are thirty and four in region play in
Speaker 4: four years. So I would say, you know, we accomplished
Speaker 4: that goal. And then we've been able to put ourselves
Speaker 4: in playoff contention, you know, making multiple Sweet sixteens, a
Speaker 4: couple of Elite eights. We had the number one seed
Speaker 4: this year, so we're relevant. I think we've made ourselves relevant.
Speaker 4: And I'm big on consistency. You know, we're consistently in
Speaker 4: the region conversation, consistently knocking on that door in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and so I think that's huge. I would much rather
Speaker 4: be consistent like we are year to year instead of
Speaker 4: like being one and done, you know, win the state
Speaker 4: championship and then you're just kind of all over the place.
Speaker 4: And so I think consistency has been big for us.
Speaker 1: And then what's it been like to see the region grow?
Speaker 1: And we can take it two ways that the region
Speaker 1: lowercase are with what you're able to see with club
Speaker 1: and devotion to resources and that kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: And then region capital are where the teams in Middle
Speaker 1: Georgia they're coming up the ladder. Jackson has done really well.
Speaker 1: I don't know if if I'm supposed to mention the
Speaker 1: j Ward in this time when it comes to the
Speaker 1: boys side or not. But Jackson and Pike and Callaway
Speaker 1: and you guys, I mean, you guys are knocking each
Speaker 1: other around like it's a battle royal every week. To
Speaker 1: see the region where you where you're growing the Morgan
Speaker 1: County program, to see that grow. And then Capital our
Speaker 1: region where you guys are making deep runs and you know,
Speaker 1: taking each other out.
Speaker 4: Well, and then you left a couple out. Like just
Speaker 4: down the road, Lake o Coney Academy's going to the
Speaker 4: final four. You know, they're a small school, but they're
Speaker 4: you know, they're right there with it. Putnam County a
Speaker 4: couple of years, our neighbor next door, they've been doing
Speaker 4: really well as well. So I mean the region is
Speaker 4: Central Georgia is just really kind of taken off in
Speaker 4: terms of in terms of soccer. I think a lot
Speaker 4: of that's population growth because you're seeing a lot of
Speaker 4: people moving like that I twenty Corridor is spreading out,
Speaker 4: you know, from Augusta all the way you know, to
Speaker 4: all the way to the west side of the state.
Speaker 4: So I think it's it's fun to watch. Like we
Speaker 4: built this huge soccer complex in Morgan County with our
Speaker 4: wreck Department. You have all these soccer fields and ocney
Speaker 4: up the road. Putnam's got soccer fields. You know, it's
Speaker 4: just grow and grow and growing. So it's just and
Speaker 4: I think Atlanta United is a big part of There
Speaker 4: always was a soccer sense, but when Atlanta United came
Speaker 4: to Atlanta, I think it really just kind of gave
Speaker 4: the soccer community kind of like an anchor in the state,
Speaker 4: and then it just kind of spreads out from there
Speaker 4: and it's it's fun to watch. That's a great sport.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's you know, we had for ball boys
Speaker 4: for our first round playoff game, we had some elementary
Speaker 4: school kids that play on the club team in town
Speaker 4: come ball boy for us, you know, which was awesome.
Speaker 4: You know, they wanted to come support the guys team.
Speaker 4: So I think it's awesome. And then in terms of
Speaker 4: like the region play, I feel like we've been yanked
Speaker 4: around geographically because last four years we were going to Augusta.
Speaker 4: Now we're going all the way to the West Georgia.
Speaker 4: And I drove our girls team to Columbus on Tuesday
Speaker 4: because we worked really close with our girls program, So
Speaker 4: I drove them to Columbus on Tuesday, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I feel like I've made this drive before this season,
Speaker 4: like five times, you know, going through uh Monticello for
Speaker 4: scythe you know, passing through Jackson kind of stuff. And
Speaker 4: then you know, we're we're coming up one eighty five
Speaker 4: late Tuesday night, and I was like, there's the Lagrange
Speaker 4: exit and I was like, oh, I've been there a
Speaker 4: couple of times this year. You know, I think the region.
Speaker 4: You know, Callaway is a really good program overall, respected,
Speaker 4: they have been good. Pike County we've kind of been
Speaker 4: chasing each other, like in the rankings. We haven't played
Speaker 4: them since like twenty fourteen season until this year. And
Speaker 4: then Jackson. We actually played Jackson in the first round
Speaker 4: of the playoffs like two or three years ago and
Speaker 4: beat them, and so Jackson's really on the rise.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know so, I mean you look at
Speaker 1: and it's so it's it's you, it's Sean Gillery, it's
Speaker 1: Mike Petite at Callaway, Yeah, And I mean it's guys,
Speaker 1: it's it's coaches that under stand that, you know, for
Speaker 1: lack of a better phrase, you're in a growth market
Speaker 1: and if you hit things the right way and there's
Speaker 1: the attention to detail and the attention to the program
Speaker 1: from the community and from the school, that you can
Speaker 1: do some really good things across the board. And I
Speaker 1: think that, I mean, I think that you guys in
Speaker 1: that region on the whole, I mean, what's going on
Speaker 1: in Zebulin with Justin. I mean, you guys are really
Speaker 1: doing some great work, But I have I have half
Speaker 1: a mind to sit there and think that they might
Speaker 1: have had you drive the yellow Hound because you knew
Speaker 1: that route to get to the Columbus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm taking them to Savannah. I'm taking our girls
Speaker 4: to Savannah tomorrow. So they said they won that game,
Speaker 4: so I got to drive them back. So our principal
Speaker 4: let me often drive them. So that'll be a late night.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's you know, coaching against like Justin and
Speaker 4: Sean and those guys in Mike have been you know,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a good game. It's gonna be a
Speaker 4: good battle back and forth, you know, and and man
Speaker 4: that we're we're still licking our wounds from the Jackson game.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you know the details of it,
Speaker 4: but it was zero zero at half. We knew it
Speaker 4: was going to be a close game. We've kind of
Speaker 4: struggled offensively all year to put it in the back
Speaker 4: of the net, like our our defensive possession of midfield
Speaker 4: was great, and then we'd get it to the to
Speaker 4: the attack and third and it was just like, all right,
Speaker 4: we got to finish. We got to finish. Zero zero
Speaker 4: at half, I told the guys have time we just
Speaker 4: got to finish. We just got to finish they and
Speaker 4: I knew they could do this because they did it
Speaker 4: in their first round game. Jackson hit a free kick
Speaker 4: off off of a foul call just outside the box,
Speaker 4: and it was one of the best kicks I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: I mean, it just goes over the wall, over our keepers,
Speaker 4: really tall, goes over his hands in the back of
Speaker 4: the net. Just it was upper ninety just ridiculous. I
Speaker 4: mean everybody was like, wow, that was a good shot.
Speaker 4: And then we had a little bit of a they had.
Speaker 4: Jackson's got some speed and they where they have speed
Speaker 4: I don't in some spots, and they took advantage of
Speaker 4: it on a quick counter attack and it was a
Speaker 4: foot race, and I just knew we weren't going to
Speaker 4: be able to stop them. So they go up to zero.
Speaker 4: Game gets a little chippy towards the end. We get
Speaker 4: a fast break go they actually tackle us in the box.
Speaker 4: Draw PK. We kicked BK. Make it two one. There's
Speaker 4: probably fifteen minutes left, About ten minutes left, one of
Speaker 4: my midfielders, miles off to the reft, gets a red card.
Speaker 4: We're down a guy, and I had switched to a three,
Speaker 4: five to two. At that point, I was like, all right,
Speaker 4: we're in damage control. We got to score and we
Speaker 4: had a lot of pressure on them, and I was confident.
Speaker 4: I was like, we're gonna tie this game. We're gonna
Speaker 4: tie this game. But then when we got the red card,
Speaker 4: it just kind of sucked the life out, you know.
Speaker 4: And I'm happy for Jackson and what they've been able
Speaker 4: to accomplish and get to the Elite A. That's a
Speaker 4: huge that's a huge accomplishment. And the other thing too
Speaker 4: is people don't realize you can win region championships, and
Speaker 4: you can win region games, and you can win all
Speaker 4: these games. You can be the number one seed. But
Speaker 4: when it gets to the playoffs, it becomes survival, staying healthy.
Speaker 4: Anything can happen, and it is extremely People are like, oh,
Speaker 4: we're so good, we got to win a state championship.
Speaker 4: It's like, do you not understand how hard that is?
Speaker 4: I mean, you're more likely to become an app astronaut
Speaker 4: or something then to try to win a state championship
Speaker 4: in a sport. I mean, it's just unbelievably difficult. And
Speaker 4: you know, I've talked to some other coaches like I
Speaker 4: haven't talked to Wesleyan's coach, but my sister in law
Speaker 4: teaches at Wesleyan, and he was telling her with the
Speaker 4: power ranking system that it used to be that winning
Speaker 4: a region championship is supposed to make winning a state
Speaker 4: championship just a little bit easier. It's supposed to make
Speaker 4: your path just a little bit easier. Not in power rankings.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you looked at the bracket and kind
Speaker 4: of who was where and things like that, like number
Speaker 4: one seed didn't necessarily mean you had an easier path
Speaker 4: to it. So that's new as well. And it's not
Speaker 4: an excuse, but it's different. Yeah, but it's hard. It
Speaker 4: is hard, and I hate it for my seniors. I'm
Speaker 4: still tore up licking our wounds. I mean, I can't
Speaker 4: hardly talk to the guys. I'm taking up equipment and stuff,
Speaker 4: and we're just we didn't expect to lose in the
Speaker 4: second round. You know, that was nobody. That was a
Speaker 4: kind of a shock for us.
Speaker 1: So well, and I mean you look at just I've
Speaker 1: got I grabbed your bracket.
Speaker 5: So here here's your bracket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in your quadrant, you have you Pike and Jackson
Speaker 1: in your quadrant one, sixteen and seventeen in your quadrant
Speaker 1: considering what your region was like.
Speaker 4: And they're not sixteen and seventeen to be honest with you.
Speaker 4: And like East Jackson we played first round, they were
Speaker 4: the thirty two. They are not. East Jackson is not
Speaker 4: a thirty two seed. There's no way they played a
Speaker 4: tough schedule. They're they're not a thirty two. Like they
Speaker 4: should be a sixteen or seventeen. Then Jackson and Pike
Speaker 4: should be in the top eight in my opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's it's crazy, you know.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 4: And then like last night, Khula and Columbus are playing.
Speaker 4: I watched part of that game. I mean that Borderline
Speaker 4: has been the state championship game in the past, you
Speaker 4: know so, and that's that was a that was an
Speaker 4: Elite eight game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that and you had you had that this
Speaker 1: year Cohola at team five, Columbus at team four.
Speaker 5: And then if you we had we had.
Speaker 1: Meghan Hill from Buford on the girls coach before you,
Speaker 1: and she's like, she's not a fan of rankings, you know,
Speaker 1: like top tens and things.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: If you go by top tens and look at your
Speaker 1: lower white right quadrant. Just as an example, chrisp was
Speaker 1: ranked at number ten. Heart and Callaway played each other
Speaker 1: in the opening round. Heart was ranked number seven at
Speaker 1: Team twenty three. Callaway was ranked number three at Team ten.
Speaker 1: So Mike Petite had to host the number seven ranked
Speaker 1: team in the state at Team twenty three in the
Speaker 1: opening round. And then Tattnall County, who's listed as team
Speaker 1: two in the Power rankings, is listed number nine in
Speaker 1: the rankings rankings.
Speaker 5: All of them were low. Right to go with the
Speaker 5: math that you're talking.
Speaker 4: About, Tattnell County came up here and beat us in
Speaker 4: the Sacond round, like my second year making the playoffs
Speaker 4: or something like that. Tatnell's been really good the last
Speaker 4: few years. They've been knocking on that door. Yeah, it's tough,
Speaker 4: and it's got everybody says, oh, you dropped a double.
Speaker 4: It should be a little easier. And you know because
Speaker 4: like our volleyball team and softball teams won state championship
Speaker 4: this year, so everybody's kind of looking like, all right, soccer,
Speaker 4: you'all been making noise like you drop down a class.
Speaker 4: All these other sports are girls basketball makes it to
Speaker 4: the final four and from day one people are like, man,
Speaker 4: soccer's kind of win a state championship, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: hold on a second, hold on, y'all need to calm down.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if I told you this earlier
Speaker 4: in this year, but we had had I lost three
Speaker 4: starters to club ball this season. Huh huh, three guys
Speaker 4: that started on my Elite eight team last year, so
Speaker 4: I had to fill those gaps. One of them left
Speaker 4: before the season, so we kind of knew that ahead
Speaker 4: of time, but then I had two more leave after
Speaker 4: we started reaching play, so we had to patch that
Speaker 4: up and fix that, you know, which was tough.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: All three of which all three of which one of
Speaker 4: them would have been the goal scorer, two other ones
Speaker 4: would have been critical players and starters, you know.
Speaker 1: So my last question for you, thanks for hanging out
Speaker 1: again this week while you're watching testing, So what is
Speaker 1: the what is the game plan for the departure for
Speaker 1: Savannah Arts tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Since you are apparently behind the wheel, What's what's the deal.
Speaker 4: We're gonna leave after first period with the girls. This
Speaker 4: is the first time any any soccer team in Morgan
Speaker 4: County's made it to the final four, so it's a
Speaker 4: huge big deal for us. You know, coach Stamps AND's
Speaker 4: been coaching us for She did it a year before
Speaker 4: I got here, so we've just been together like the
Speaker 4: whole time. But AND's from Morgan County. She used to
Speaker 4: catch softball here. She actually won three state championships as
Speaker 4: a softball coach a while ago. Since the first time
Speaker 4: any of our teams have made it beyond the Elite eight,
Speaker 4: which is cool. So we're gonna leave right after first
Speaker 4: period round between nine thirty and ten. I think we're
Speaker 4: gonna go to Dublin eat and then finish the trip
Speaker 4: to Savannah get there. I think the game is at
Speaker 4: five o'clock, so, which is good, so we can get
Speaker 4: an early start and then turn around come back after
Speaker 4: the game is over. I know our girls were doing
Speaker 4: ice bass yesterday. I got it set up for him.
Speaker 4: They've been watching a lot of film and you know,
Speaker 4: I think our girls are peaking at the right time
Speaker 4: because if you'd have told me, you know, they're in
Speaker 4: the region with Pike, who's their pikes girls are they
Speaker 4: may take the whole thing, and so they're a testament
Speaker 4: to you don't necessarily have to win region to get
Speaker 4: this far, it may may actually help you. And so
Speaker 4: the girls, if you'd told me they were going to
Speaker 4: make it to the final four a month ago, I'd
Speaker 4: have been like, Ooh, I don't know, because we had
Speaker 4: some injuries when we started the playoffs. We had three
Speaker 4: stars out with injuries. So for our girls team, so
Speaker 4: it's about surviving.
Speaker 1: Yep, ranked number four on the girl's side, team number
Speaker 1: seven traveling to Savannah Arts, who is ranked number six
Speaker 1: and team number three. We're talking to the head of
Speaker 1: transportation for this soccer team tomorrow, Aaron Paul. On the
Speaker 1: boy's side, great run for you guys's team, top ranked
Speaker 1: team in Class Double A. Boys, go and finish up
Speaker 1: the testing. Make sure that everybody has everything pointed in
Speaker 1: the right direction when it comes to states rights and
Speaker 1: what the Constitution says and all that kind of We
Speaker 1: might have you come back next week to do some
Speaker 1: scouting for us in Double A when the championship is
Speaker 1: named okay, and just to kind of break things down
Speaker 1: for us as one as our Double A expert, and
Speaker 1: just have you talk about all the other championships that
Speaker 1: you might keep an eye on as well. You're developing
Speaker 1: into one of our experts here on the noonsho.
Speaker 4: I don't come me an expert yet. I gotta learn
Speaker 4: that title. Hey, I saw your email about Morgan County gear.
Speaker 4: I'll send you some.
Speaker 5: Stuff so that would be epic.
Speaker 1: Just let me know where and when, and we'll figure
Speaker 1: it out and it will be shown. It will be
Speaker 1: shown here in the office. Nice and it will be
Speaker 1: It will be here in office HD and the boss
Speaker 1: will probably take the Morgan County gear and she will
Speaker 1: probably end up wearing it around the state and it
Speaker 1: turns into an instant conversation piece. I know how it goes.
Speaker 1: The stuff ends up with her first, and I might
Speaker 1: get the chance to wear it. But fantastic stuff that
Speaker 1: you're doing this season down there. Great work by you
Speaker 1: and Coach Stamps to get two deep playoff runs. Can't
Speaker 1: thank you enough for dropping by the noon show. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the rest of your coffee and enjoy the rest of
Speaker 1: the testing. Get out of there safe drive tomorrow as
Speaker 1: you get ready for the trip to Erin.
Speaker 5: Is always great to.
Speaker 4: See him, my friend, you too, Thank you John.
Speaker 1: All right, there goes Aaron Paul and Aaron Paul is
Speaker 1: in charge of transportation for Morgan County. As they head
Speaker 1: to Savannah Arts tomorrow. On the girls side, Aaron's team
Speaker 1: team number one top ranked. On the boy's side, Class
Speaker 1: Double A boys to find out and what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do. I wanted to bring Aaron on to kind
Speaker 1: of talk about the boy's side and how tough it
Speaker 1: was considering that Jackson has made the run, talk about
Speaker 1: his region, play all of that kind of stuff to
Speaker 1: get you ready for tomorrow. So once again, girls semis
Speaker 1: tomorrow before we get out of here, once again we'll
Speaker 1: break it all down for you. Class A D one
Speaker 1: it is Social Circle at Breamen. Great to catch up
Speaker 1: with Heather Richardson and find out what's going on. As
Speaker 1: they get ready to travel. Model is at ACE Charter.
Speaker 1: Class A D two Atlanta Classical is going to Ocilla
Speaker 1: to take on Irwin County. On the left hand side,
Speaker 1: Aaron mentioned Lake of Coney Academy LA is traveling to
Speaker 1: try on that's two heavyweights.
Speaker 5: On the right hand side, we mentioned.
Speaker 1: Double A Double A Region two. It is Coholla Creek
Speaker 1: Team five, ranked number five heading to Pike County to
Speaker 1: take on Zebulin number one ranked team number one in
Speaker 1: the overall, Morgan County and Savannah Arts is on the
Speaker 1: right hand side. That's double A triple A. It is
Speaker 1: Jefferson hosting Cherokee Bluff number one, hosting number three in
Speaker 1: the rankings. Team thirteen going to team number one A
Speaker 1: Coney County traveling to Whitewater. That matchup will be on
Speaker 1: the network tomorrow, So we will be at Whitewater for
Speaker 1: Whitewater and to Coney County and it'll be great to
Speaker 1: see Judson Hanby. Team ranked number five going to Whitewater.
Speaker 1: They are ranked number two. Team fifteen travels to team
Speaker 1: number three in the power rankings. In Quada. It is
Speaker 1: Cambridge traveling to Marist so it is the number two
Speaker 1: set out of Region six. Ranked number four traveling to
Speaker 1: the Region five Champ ranked number two. Plussed Trinity traveling
Speaker 1: to alatoona BT is ranked number one as your Region
Speaker 1: six Champ traveling to Tuna. Region seven Champ ranked number
Speaker 1: five five A. It is Greenbrier traveling to Northgate. Greenbrier
Speaker 1: unranked Region Champ out of Region one, just kind of
Speaker 1: quietly going about their business as the Region Champ had
Speaker 1: all of their playoff wins at home. They go to Northgate.
Speaker 1: Who is your Region three Champ ranked number six. Right
Speaker 1: hand side of the bracket. Pope travels to number one Roswell,
Speaker 1: Pope rank number two, Region six Champ. Roswell ranked number one,
Speaker 1: Region seven Champ and in six A Lambert to Walton. Lambert,
Speaker 1: you're number two at A Region six, they are ranked
Speaker 1: number six. Travels to Walton your Region five Champ ranked
Speaker 1: number five, and then West for Scyth and Buford. Great
Speaker 1: to have Megan Hill on the show and got to
Speaker 1: catch up with her about Jay Entlick. I was glad
Speaker 1: I was able to ask that question about who's on
Speaker 1: their speed dial and as it turns out, it's Jay,
Speaker 1: So she's gonna catch up with Jant. Like West for
Speaker 1: Scyth and Buford heavyweights again on the Buford campus. Go
Speaker 1: early to get a place to park. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: taking some steps unless you're in that first parking lot
Speaker 1: that's right next to the facility. And get your tickets
Speaker 1: early because anticipate at least twelve hundred people if not
Speaker 1: more for that soccer match on campus. Brookwood traveled for
Speaker 1: the matchup against Buford that was on the network. West
Speaker 1: Verscyth is gonna travel for the matchup against Buford at
Speaker 1: Buford once again tomorrow. So that's your six eight girls,
Speaker 1: and that's your breakdown of all of the girls matchups.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow once again we'll review the girls. We'll get you
Speaker 1: set up for the boys on your Thursday and let
Speaker 1: you know what else is going on. So here's your
Speaker 1: midweek girls tomorrow. Boys on Friday, we're gonna piece it
Speaker 1: all together for you here on Thursday and Friday, soccer
Speaker 1: is in session Playoff Daily Live presented by our friends
Speaker 1: at Kaiser Permanente. Thanks for dropping by, Thanks to the
Speaker 1: coaches at Social Circle Beauford and Morgan County, and thanks
Speaker 1: to all of you guys for hanging out with us
Speaker 1: and watching. And we break it all down here with
Speaker 1: your brackets every single day that we can break it
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Speaker 1: about Portugal, talk about Robertadores, and then Nico Moreno, joining
Speaker 1: us at ten thirty to break down everything going on
Speaker 1: in Major League Soccer from the Pacific perspective Friday, once
Speaker 1: again getting you ready for the weekend, and we're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have some visitors at nine thirty and or ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: and then tomorrow it is Soccer's in Session Playoff Daily,
Speaker 1: and then Friday it's gonna be soccer is in Session
Speaker 1: Playoff Daily, and we'll break it all down for you there.
Speaker 1: So for everybody here at SDH, thanks to the coaches
Speaker 1: and thanks to you moch Plot, all played safe. And
Speaker 1: since it is the end of the show that means
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Speaker 1: again tomorrow nine oh five Eastern. Have fun.