 Hello and welcome to the Evan Clifton Show presented by Buffalo Wildlands. I'm Greg Royce showing with Stevenson Tennis Coach Evan Clifton. Coach, exciting time, playoff time, both teams, many women have qualified for the conference championship. Just talk a little bit about that and kind of mindset going into this week. Yeah, I'm thrilled. It's been a great year for both teams. It's been sort of a nice big forward step in our program for both sides. We've been talking about it all year. It's why we've been training. It's why we played the teams that we played at a conference. And it's sort of been a daily motivation. It's nice that we've been taking it one match at a time, one match at a time, so that we can get here, so we can get to the conference playoffs and win it. So we're not here to take part. We're here to take over. It's sort of our team mantra this week and we're excited. We finally get a chance to play these really meaningful matches in the playoffs in the postseason and we're looking to make the most of it. Yeah, we'll talk a little bit about the soft camera, but just kind of the evolution of both programs really when you look at it. When you took over, obviously the men were a little further ahead, but you know, first year you made the conference playoffs and you've gotten a little bit better each year. Kind of co-man this year, same for the women. Obviously the women were struggling when you took over and you know, this is year four now and it's you know, they're a playoff team. So can I talk about that evolution, that process? Yeah, I mean it's things we've talked, you know, we always talk beginning of the year, you know, the real accomplishing goal is to win the conference. That being said, you can't win the conference until you make the conference playoffs and that's, you know, we didn't, even though we were tied for third on the women's side last year, we didn't get in. You know, we lost in the tiebreak and so you know, the goal is to win the conference, but you know, the immediate goal, the first step, get in the playoffs, get in the tournament where anything can happen. You know, we just lost Alvernia on the women's side and that's who we play again. And so, you know, the goal, we can't win the conference unless you get into the conference championship match. So we got to win the semi-final. Like I said, it's a step-by-step day-by-day process, but yeah, it's great to see, you know, where both programs have come from the last four years, you know, where we started to where we are gotten, you know, better every single year. Not always as quick and as fast as the coaches want, but you know, we're every step, you know, every year it's been forward. We're getting better and we know that, you know, we're going to leave it all out there this week and hopefully end to WAA tournament and next year we're going to try and take another step. So, but we're, you know, we can't wait to get out there this week and prove that we can, what we can do in the postseason and see how far we can make this last. Yeah. And you talked about like obviously the women play over any tomorrow and like you said, that's a match, it was 5-4, but you know, a couple matches that could go either way both ways. And then on the men's side, you play Arcadia later this afternoon. And then, you know, you look at, you know, two teams, you know, if you're fortunate enough to advance either Messiah or Lebanon Valley teams that, you know, Lebanon Valley is 5-4, Messiah, you know, again, two or three matches, you want eight to one, but if a couple matches go a different way, right, you know, we're talking different story. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we talked, we talked about this a little bit last week and in this week of practice is the seeds, the numbers, next year name, don't matter. It doesn't get, it doesn't give you a single point in the match. It starts 0-0, you still have to win all five matches. So, you know, we're, we're reminding that we haven't won the conference yet. We haven't made it to the conference. We haven't even made it in position to win the conference yet. We got to win today and tomorrow to do that. But yeah, I mean, we obviously are on the men's side, the wins over those teams give us some confidence. We know that, I mean, we know that we can play better than we did in those matches that we won and that if we continue to buy into what we've done and trust ourselves and trust our game, that we can get it done again in the postseason. And the girls, obviously it was a 5-4 match with Alvernia. We felt, you know, we could have played even better in doubles at which we got the sweep in. So, we feel confident we can do that again. And we definitely did not start great at some spots in singles. We feel, and we're going to have a slightly different lineup and we feel like we really like our chances on both sides. Yeah. All right coach, well, we wish you the best of luck this week. Move forward and we'll chat once the season's done. Hopefully we're talking about a couple NCAA bids. Yeah, thank you. All right, for Evan Clifton, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Evan Clifton Show.