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I'm Matt Maltese, sports director for WXAV 88.3 FM Chicago. Now I'm now joined by Cougar Star Running Back, Vance McShane. Vance, thank you for joining us. I appreciate it.
All right. So you had a monster game this past Sunday against Trinity International University, gaining 220 all-purpose yards, including rushing for 181 yards and two touchdowns. What was the biggest key for you to impose your will on this Trojan's defense? I'm just being myself really, we know just coming off that game from what I was about.
Now we had to go into this week and really build our confidence back up. You know, offensively we've been struggling a little bit. So I knew going in this game. I had put the team on my back in a way and I'll get the victory.
Yeah, man, take us through. I got to ask you about this. Just take us through that big 65-yard rushing touchdown that you had in the third quarter. Like what was the key to that?
That was a great... Oh, the receiver's blocking really on earlier in that game. I had like a 20-yard game, I think. Really, I was just telling the receiver that I was like, man, just get through a guy that's how you got to hook him in and take to the house after that.
And on that plate, they picked the guys up and appreciate Kyle Klein and Klein Thompson for getting the blocks for me. So you guys ended up winning this game, 37-28. So how important was this victory after coming off? Pretty tough loss the week before at the Roosevelt University.
Yeah, really. Like I said before, just building our confidence back up. You know, we planned on like going in a field during regular season and conference, you know, so that victory kind of like got some people down on the team and defensively, you know, we wasn't really like stopping them by stats against Roosevelt. So going into this game, we knew like defensively that we had to make big plays and it was like five interceptions total.
And offensively, we could have 30-some points without the back-ups and stuff. So I don't know, I mean, really just yeah, build the confidence, making sure we get everything down packed for our Roosevelt. Yeah, so speaking of Roosevelt University, you guys played them again this Saturday for the home opener. What can you guys learn from the first time you played them and use it to your advantage to start it?
From the first game, now we know what formation is they about to give us, so we're going to use that to our advantage. And really just going here with confidence and get to victory. I know our keys to stop that running back at Roosevelt's turn right back. I forgot his name, like John's or whatever.
But yeah, I know that's like our key guy and then they got a solid quarterback and receiver. He just got a national player a week. No doubt. So at the time of this interview, you guys are currently two and one.
So what's going to be the biggest event or biggest key I should say for you guys to stay above 500 the rest of the way. Stay healthy. If you look at our team, we got a lot of guys. It's injured right now.
But we got workable. We got and hopefully doubt for sure keep us over 500. So yeah, health is key right now. All right, Vance.
Thank you for your time, man. Yeah, for sure. Thank you very much for listening to this WXAV 88.3 FM podcast. Be sure to visit our website, wxav.com for more information on your escape from ordinary radio.