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but a tie with the College of St. Mary on Saturday, and we'll talk about Mount Marty in just a moment, but CSM, Dakota Wesleyan, both situations where I feel like Dordt had more chances.

Mm-hmm.

M- Well, definitely.

Definitely.

But yeah, soccer, one of those deals where, just like football, you turn it over, things like that, you don't capitalize, and it can go the wrong way on you.

20 shots on goal I think in, or 20 total shots in both of those matches, and so those, College of St. Mary, Dakota Wesleyan, us, and then the two Sioux City schools, that's the blob right now in the middle, all 1-1 and 2 in the, in the league.

So we'll see.

Morningside's doing a great job, four and one in conference.

And then Hoha, Midland, College of St. Mary's, Hastings.

Uh, Dakota Wesleyan i- is a, a really good ranked team.

And then I, I can keep going, because Dordt-

Um, and, you know, it's so early.

We just don't know a lot.

Um, definitely wanna give a shout-out to the keeper from College of St. Mary on the women's side.

She was the National Keeper of the Week.

I'm not down on it.

You've got opportunities, but go to Midland, to Mount Marty, to College of St. Mary.

That's the next three matches for this group.

Then all of a sudden you're done with September and you're into the final month of the regular season.

Mount Marty has struggled, but Midland and College of St. Mary, no slouches and you're playing them on the road.

Yeah, a theme of this, we're going to talk about soccer in a minute, but the common theme will be the next three matches or the next two matches are going to tell a lot about the fate of these defender programs.

Yeah, because

Dordt, having its own soccer pitch, gets to host Concordia at 2:00.

Dakota Wesleyan hosts College of St. Mary's at 5:00, as does Waldorf at Forest City, gets to host Mount Marty at 5:00 as well.

Women's soccer pitch, it's the first weekend conference matches, Corey.

Finally.

I believe Dort is in that mix as well.

I believe College of St. Mary is in that mix.

I believe Midland is in that mix.

Concordia.

There we go.

There's the receiving votes.

College of St. Mary, another GPAC team.

Oh, yeah, they are.

Men, there are five.

The lone exception is College of St. Mary, which is going to be the Defenders' biggest competition on the women's side.

One non-conference school, Dakota State, and then it's Dort, Northwestern, Briarcliff, Waldorf, Dakota State, and CSM.

Those are the schools.

Dakota Wesleyan, take a look at the records so far.

Dakota Wesleyan, Concordia, Northwestern, Morningside, College of St. Mary.

A lot of conference teams that have had very good non-conference starts to the year.

What do you make of the conference this year?

Midland was super competitive last year and young, and now they just look a year more mature.

So yeah, Yeah, I mean, conference is tough.

There's been some great growth at College of St. Mary's, too.

So I imagine that the teams that are going to come out of this conference and the national tournament are the ones that are able to survive some big punches.