Mount Marty University

But yeah, the final score doesn't, doesn't say that.

Mount Marty coming up on Saturday.

Similar situation where you've gotten a couple of ties.

You've gotten points.

Yeah

...

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.

Six and seven.

Where's Mount Marty at?

Uh, they-

Right behind them, six and eight.

They, I, they played Doane last night, and I watched a little bit of that, and, uh, that ended up being a very close game that Doane ended up winning.

So there will be a decent team that doesn't make it into the postseason.

Right now, I think there are nine realistic contenders for eight spots, and I think Northwestern, Mount Marty, Doane-

And Morningside

They were a day late, but, you know, we had other stuff going on.

But the Mustangs got a nice victory over Mount Marty on the road, 42-7.

The wheelhouse scoreboard on the line is Steve Ryan.

He is the head coach for the Mustangs.

And, you know, I guess first coach... maybe talk about your defense i mean i know you gave up the seven right away kind of reminded me of the week before but uh uh that defense put the clamps on a really good offensive team

yeah they did it was a reminder of the week before we we fumbled the first play of the game and they went down and scored but then from then on out they they pitched a shutout so Yeah, I thought that was a really good Mount Marty offense.

I thought our defense is just getting better each and every week, and that was probably their best week they've played so far this year.

What is it that you're happy with on the defense? I know it seemed like you clamped a lot better when you went to that four-man front, and it seemed to free up Brickhouse quite a bit.

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

On the road.

Knock on wood.

Then follow on my nephew, Shaylor Platt, playing linebacker for Mount Marty College based in Yankton-Sodak.

We've had a steady diet of G-Pack football, pork tenderloins, and a bird's eye view of some of the best stands of corn on planet

Earth.

We'll see how we, how we handle it.

Talk about Mount Marty.

Um, a, a team, uh, you know, you, you talk about, uh, you've been around ever since Dordt started.

Well, um, a lot of people have been around since Mount Marty started.

They're not that old, but gosh, they, they, they show they can score.

They do.

Mm-hmm.

And all of the sudden they get a little older and, and, and you can have a breakout year, so.

I, I, I think the other one [laughs] I'll, I'm not trying to dictate the direction, but I'm curious about this one.

Mount Marty at Concordia.

I am too.

I am too.

Uh, Mount Marty almost, uh, beating Northwestern again for the second straight year.

It took Northwestern to take a last second drive to upend the Lancers.

But I agree with you.

220 yards, a couple scores.