 Hello and welcome to Paul Cantabeni show presented by Buffalo Wildwings. I'm Greg Royce joined by Stevenson, head men's lacrosse coach Paul Cantabeni. Coach, you had a couple conference wins last week. Let's start off Tuesday at Lycoming. Big day for the offense, big day for JT Thielen in particular. Yeah, you know, I think we're playing better on the offensive end. You know, I think we kind of woke up a little bit after that Lynchburg game and I think we're playing well. We moved the ball, we understood what we had to do and I like how we played early. You know, we got things flowing even though it was 4-3 after the first quarter against Lycoming. I think we were playing well. I mean, he just kind of moved forward and Justin Burnetti really doing a great job helping us get the ball back and forth and JT did his job. He got open on some easy ones and put it away and then made some tough plays and we got the ball moving and we got a little confidence. But I think one of the bigger things is the play of our second midfield. They've really done a great job and in that game they were excellent. You know, Colin Tucker and Danny Buckwalter and especially Chris Hammerquest who's playing outstanding ever since he got back inserted into the line in the last four or five games. He's got 10 goals in 7-6 over that 7 assists in that period. So he's doing a really great job. Yeah, like you said, some of those guys have been kind of thrusted through different roles and we've really stepped up over the course of the last several games. Yeah, and that's what we need them to do at this time of the year. You know, it's a long year. You know, guys are tired. We can't keep relying on the same people to produce every game. We need other people to step up as we get closer to the conference playoffs and the NCAA tournament when you guys start playing. And I like how the way we started 4-0 in conference now. So I think we're doing some great things. Yeah. Then Saturday you were back home after about a week and a half. You played in Messiah home. A team like you came in undefeating the conference, had some good non-conference results, not victories, but you know, played Gettysburg tough, played F&M tough. And you came out strong. I thought it was the strongest start you've had all year. Yeah, I think it was a complete game for us. We really did a great job. We played very clean. We only had three turnovers in the first half and eight total for the game. And you know, Messiah's played a lot of teams really tough. You know, with 17-18 with Franklin Marshall and 10-9 with Ohio Wesleyan, 12-9 with Gettysburg. And so they've had some good results. But you know, but we're able to get on them early and I think we shot the ball extremely well getting on their goalie and putting a little bit of doubt in them. But I think the biggest things, you know, winning the face-off and then being very clean in the offensive end and really producing, and I think that's helping us, especially Harrison Fager, who played so well in the game to give the career-high four goals and starting to really get some guys to understand how we need to play. And I think we can play as clean as we did and then limit the turnovers. Then we're a really tough team to beat. Yeah, and the other guy I know stepped up on Saturday was Ethan Christensen at five assists, 10 points. I mean, he's really stripping the ball well. Yeah, you know, and I said, you know, in the post-game interview, Ethan's a midfielder, playing attack. So he's getting used to how to set up his guy, how to play attack more and understand the responsibility of being the leader down there. And I think he's getting better and better. And he's really a tough guard when he's starting to understand how to attack somebody and get in the great spots. And that helps JT and that helps Jacob Tatum and that helps the first midfielder when he's able to do the things he did. And he's a dangerous player when he gets into those situations. But we're happy with how he's playing and he even continued to do that. But we need other people to continue to play their way there to help Ethan be better and not carry as much of the load. So it's good to see him go five-and-five in that game and I think he was seven-and-seven on the week. And so that's a good week for him and he's getting better going into Lebanon Valley this week and Arcadia. Yeah, so Wednesday you head up to Lebanon Valley, a team that's been very methodical and offensive. She had some really low-scoring games and then you play Arcadia at home on Saturday. Yeah, they play Messiah 4-3 and they don't really blow you off the map offensive but they take their time and they get good shots. And defensively, they have one of the better keepers in the conference, I think, and a lot of the guys were turning from a year ago. And so we've got to kind of do the same forward. We win faceoffs, apply pressure to them early and get them out of what they want to do. Then we're going to be successful. We can fall into that and we can turn the ball over and do what they want to do in the game and be much tougher. So we've got to respect what they do. John Haas does a great job and we've got to be ready for them in Arcadia. Arcadia is playing very well. They scored a lot of goals lately and we have to be ready for it. All right, coach. We wish you the best of luck and we'll see you here on Saturday night. Thanks a lot. We can't wait. All right. For Paul Cantabeni, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Paul Cantabeni Show.