 Stevenson gets the 17-9 win over Ersinus in the season opener. Glenn Clark with head coach Paul Cantabene. Coach, I'm sure there are things, and we'll talk about them, that you want to clean up and you want to do better. But given the quality of opponent, given the number of new faces, I would like to think that, in general, you'd have to be pretty happy with how you guys played the night. Yeah, overall, I was really ecstatic by how we played. I mean, I thought the best sign I thought we did is that we played tough all night. Did a lot of really tough plays, scored some really tough goals, and that was great. And our defense led us a lot of ways, did a really good job. And Cam Ladiger Sr. scored five goals, scored a bunch of tough goals, and so it was good. And what was great is that we played so many young guys as well. We played our second poll as a freshman. We played three freshman midfielders. They did a really, really good job. And Mitch, his first time playing a game, number one for us, played a ton and did a good job. And I'm really excited how we played. There's lots of things I think we need to clean up. But overall, that's a tough go. And I didn't think we played that well, seeing our first two scrimmages. But I thought we did a great job just playing tough and making the right plays. We brought up the defense a lot during the course of tonight's game. I mean, this felt like a dominant profile. I know they ended up scoring nine goals tonight, but this really felt like an imposing of will. Did you know this was the type of defense that you had coming into the season? I know that we have a good defense. I'm really happy about Matt Wilson, who leads us down there. And I thought, and Nick Moly, who's been a starter for us for a few years, has played great. But I thought the guy who really stood out was Ryan Quinn. Ryan Quinn playing 22. They're a tough guy, Neil. He goes hard to the goal. And he did a great job in him, caused a lot of turnovers, and really did a great job on him. So overall, I thought Eddie and Shell played a good job. I thought our Mitty Dees, 30, Luke Enzer, and Thomas 64, and 48. Jansen played great, and Topper got in there. So we had those four guys. It was great to rotate all of them. And I thought they really helped us in a great job. And then Nolan, facing off, first go. But he scored two goals for us, and that's what he has. He's going to get better. It's his first game in two years. So we're really ecstatic about some of the things we did. But the defense sets the tone for us. And I think the offense really plays off of them. Even the face-ups got better as the game went on. You're right. And we said it a couple of times, like, yeah, he scored two goals, but things weren't going well. But that even turned the corner as the game went on. Yeah, Nolan hasn't played a game in two years. So he transferred to us, and then he got hurt and was out. And so now he's back into it. And so once he gets other people healthy, I think we'll start to really get a good flow. But Nolan did a good job. He's a big, strong kid, and imposed his will a few times. And especially early in that first quarter got us a couple goals that really got the team going. And then I thought we had some other just great plays that were really kind of characteristic of the toughness I think we need to play with. Let's talk about the other stuff then. Let's just get it out of the way. Holding on to the ball. And clearing and the turnovers, I would say they'd probably be very high on your list of things you've got to move. The clearings, all the plays were there. It's just that we kind of made poor choices. And I think that's the really frustrating part is that we worked really hard at that to make the right choices. We had four turnovers from our polls on clears alone in the first half. And we've been so good at that. And I just think that we've got to make better choices. And I think those guys understand that. You know what I mean? So we'll get better at that. We held the ball a few times. And I think as we tell those guys, we've got to have two-thirds of our goals got to be assisted. We've got to bang that ball drive and do that. And we knew they were going to show a lot. And so we had to bang it. I think a couple times we didn't do that. And we've got to play within our system. And we've got to play as a unit. Six guys, not one guy. So I think at times when we really did that, we scored a lot of beautiful goals. But at times when we held it, it kind of made it rough looking at times. But that's, hey, when you've got that many freshmen in the lineup trying to get them in the right places and getting them to do those things, you're going to have that. But the guy who actually helped us tremendously in offense all day was Josh Brandon, moving from midfield to attack getting back there. And I thought he controlled the pace of the game for us and did a really good job getting the ball to the right person. And with his handicap of being deaf and having to wear the implant and everything, he's just unbelievable what he's able to do. I think the thing that really you come away from this, yes, you can clean up some of these things. But this team is, to your point, young, new faces is probably going to get better. And that's what to me is most exciting about this performance. Yeah, I think we are going to get better. We've been better each year. We weren't too great in our scrimmage against Cabrini. We're much better against Hampton-Sydney. We're great tonight, I think, and we'll get better. But what I really take away from is just the toughness we played with. We can play with this toughness all year. We're going to have a chance. Coach, congratulations on the win. Congratulations on the Hall of Fame. It's great to see you. We'll see you back here next Saturday night. Appreciate it. Have a good one. It's Coach Paul Cantoban and I'm Glenn Clark. Go MustangSports.com.