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Speaker 1: Hey, Serving Pancakes listeners, Tiffany here with a quick shout

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Speaker 1: out on your chance to be part of history. Hi,

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Speaker 1: I'm Tiffany Oshinsky and I'm Katbo and this is serving

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Speaker 1: pancakes with League one Volleyball. The Inaugural Love Finals are

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Speaker 1: almost here. So to get you ready for the final showdown,

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Speaker 1: Kat and I will be going over the matches from

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Speaker 1: the week to keep you up to date on everything

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Speaker 1: League one Volleyball. There's only two more weeks left in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. How you feel about that, cat.

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Speaker 2: Girl, It's gone by so quick.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, it almost felt like we

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Speaker 3: down to the last two weeks and I'm excited, you know,

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Speaker 3: to see how the fine's going to go.

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Speaker 1: I bet you are. I'm excited to see how it goes.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe that this season's already almost over?

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Speaker 2: I know, it's almost like kind of sad, you know.

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Speaker 3: I've been really enjoying going into my friends like almost weekend.

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Speaker 3: Like I have friends on almost every team, you know,

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Speaker 3: and like we'll get together, get to hang out and

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Speaker 3: play some volleyball. So it's kind of sad, but at

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Speaker 3: the same time, you know, it's part of it. And

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Speaker 3: in finishing the season and trying to get to the

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Speaker 3: win and get that championship title.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it gonna be a little bit different for you

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Speaker 1: this year too, because like instead of coming home from overseas,

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Speaker 1: like you're already home.

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Speaker 2: It's the best feeling ever.

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Speaker 3: Actually, So last time I was in Louisville, i won

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Speaker 2: So I'm trying to ride on those good.

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Speaker 3: Waves of going back there, you know. So, yeah, it

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Speaker 3: feels great to be able to just be at home.

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Speaker 3: It's my friends and my family, and yeah, just to

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Speaker 1: I love it all right. Well, as we are drawing

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Speaker 1: near the end of this inaugural season, we are seeing

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Speaker 1: so many milestones being set. Gon go through them as

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Speaker 1: you know, most impressive, because there's been so many that,

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Speaker 1: let's start with Thursday nights match between the top two

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Speaker 1: teams in the league, Love Atlanta versus Love Houston, with

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Speaker 1: were also a lot of milestones in this game, including

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Speaker 1: So That's a lot that happened in that match. But

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I think just being consistent and playing defense, no

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Speaker 1: And we saw Atlanta's defense step up in a big way.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I think defense always wins matches. As

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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Houston, they still control their own destiny

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Speaker 1: And moving to Friday night, your team Love Austin held

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Speaker 1: Omaha in a five set battle A huge battle twenty five,

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Speaker 2: You know, they really wanted it, for sure.

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Speaker 3: I think we definitely could have done a better job

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Speaker 1: Seeder Laura Daikoma was on fire, breaking the league record

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Speaker 2: I love her energy. Even after running the offense.

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Speaker 3: You know, she's always in their teammate's face and she

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Speaker 1: Although you didn't win, Austin hit three thirty five as

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Speaker 3: I think I always said winning games is defense, staggering transition.

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Speaker 3: I think we out hit, out blocked, outserved, outpassed, Omaha.

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Speaker 1: That match has so many back and forth moments. What

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with more from our week twelve recaps.

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Speaker 1: Let's move to Saturday's doubleheader. We start with Love Salt

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Speaker 1: Lake beating Love Omaha in a five So.

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Speaker 1: Well, we start with Salt Luke beating Love Ohmah in

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Speaker 1: a five set reverse sweep with two marathon opening sets

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Speaker 1: that went in overtime twenty four to twenty six thirty

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Speaker 1: In fact, that was the longest game to date in

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Speaker 1: League one's short history. But when it came to the action,

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Speaker 1: what did Saltake do to be able to turn things around?

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Speaker 3: I think depending heavy on their outsides. Their outsides hit

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Now, Madison's setter, Lauren Carlini also made history

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Speaker 2: And I think Warren carly Need is amazing. Let's watching

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Speaker 3: I'm very faithful and I'm very committed to that thought,

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Speaker 2: You know, you can only watch videos so many times.

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Speaker 1: We'll put that on the docket for next year's UH

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Speaker 1: That's really impressive, super impressive, all right, now, kat, as

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Speaker 1: Which matchup are you most excited for? I'll read the lineup,

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Speaker 1: this is what we havet On Thursday, April third, Omaha

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Speaker 1: So which of these matches are you circling on your calendar?

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Speaker 3: I'm circling in the Madison versus Houston match. You know

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Speaker 1: episode of Serving Pancakes. Check back next week when Cat

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Speaker 1: and I go over the final week of the regular

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Speaker 1: season and look ahead to the Love Finals. And good

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Speaker 1: luck to you this week in Cat right.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Serving Pancakes is an iheartwomen's sports production in partnership with

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Speaker 1: Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Production by League one Volleyball, I'm your host Tiffany Oshinski.

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Speaker 1: My co host is Kat Bell. Anya Alvarez is our

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Speaker 1: senior producer. Our executive producers are Carrie Stett, Tamaradike, and

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Speaker 1: Lindsay Hoffman. Our marketing lead is Juwara Parker. Sound editing

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Speaker 1: and mixing by Daniel Gonzalez. Our theme music is Pancakes

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Speaker 1: by Eric W. Mass Junior. Stay tuned for next week's episode,

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Speaker 1: where we'll talk about the last week of the inaugural

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Speaker 1: Love regular season. That will be week thirteen. And we'll

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Speaker 1: look ahead to the Love Finals. Thanks for listening.