 Hello and welcome to the Paul Cantamene show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce. I'm going to join my students and men's lacrosse coach Paul Cantamene. Coach, you opened up conference play last week first at home. You played against Alvernia. We're able to get a lot of different guys in. Has had 17 different goal scores and I opened up conference play of the win. Yeah it was good. You know it's just good to get going here a little bit. I liked some of the changes that we made in the Cabrini game did really well and then we kind of pushed those into the Alvernia game and what I liked about the Alvernia game we just got we just played well early on you know weren't really messing around. I thought we were real crisp. Scored on a lot of shots early and got a lot of easy shots. I thought we moved the ball and it's always good to get one of those games and get a lot of people in and we got everybody in the roster in and it was fun and you know we were able to get a good victory to start the conference playoff. Yeah then I continued conference play Saturday. Go up to Albright. Kind of a close game for Luba. Their goalie was making some saves but also in the second half you were able to shut them down and pull away for the win. Yeah the goalie had 28 saves. You know he played pretty good but they played zone all 60 minutes and you know I think we had the ball about 90% of the game but we did a good job. I think we got a lot of quality shots. We didn't shoot it as well but I just think some of our younger guys Danny Buckwalter and Tucker and Chris Hammerquest are really doing a great job in our second midfield line and they really needed a lot of the playing time they got in this game and got a lot better and so that's good but you know I think we just got to continue to try to shoot the ball well. We didn't shoot the ball as well as we wanted to in the Albright game but I think we did a really good job just moving the ball around. Our spacing was great. We got a lot of good shots inside. Their goalie made saves early and we just broke them down. Anytime you play zone all game you know it just takes a little while to break it down and get the feel of it and that's the first time we've seen a zone all year and so I thought we did a good job. We might see one Tuesday against Stevens Tech. They zoned us all last year so we'll be ready for that but it's like the way we played. I think we did a good job again. We were real crisp. We moved the ball. We didn't have a lot of turnovers and you know our defense did a great job. They didn't give up any six on six goals at all. They got two off the ride off of broken rides and the ball just kind of bounced around and got their way and they got one in the man up in the first minute of the game. We kind of got a push call a little bit but you know I thought we did a good job playing some good defense and again we got a lot of people in and got the ball moving around and that's what you want to do. Yeah and shifting gears you head back to non-conference play touched on a little bit. You play Stevens at home Tuesday and then I had a Lynchburg on Friday which should be two very good games. Yeah yeah you know Stevens Tech's having a good year. They're 8-1. They're 13th in the country. You know they've only played one ranked team really and Tufts was the game they lost so you know we played a little bit harder rescheduled but they got some talented guys in the offensive end and I think their goalie is playing really well for them and doing a good job and they they've always done some really good things. We're eager to play. Last year we played in probably the worst conditions I've ever played up there in a monsoon or like 40 mile an hour wins and it was a little crazy but you got to play the games the way it is and they got us by a couple and but we're looking forward to playing them and then you know we always go down to a real tough game down on Lynchburg. You know it's we always love going down there you know up and back in the same day is a little tough but you know we always have a great game down there at night and so it's just a good week to finish up our conference out of conference play and with two quality teams and we just got to keep doing what we're doing. I think we're doing a great job moving the ball now especially in the offense and the new guys are really starting to understand how defensively how we have to play since we lost all those guys and Dylan Harris is out for the year now with ankle surgery this morning and so you know we just got a lot of guys that are just starting to feel feel what they're exposed to do especially in the offensive end now moving and Jacob Tatum especially in the offensive end scoring a lot of goals for us as a freshman doing a good job you know helping out JT and Ethan Christensen. You can certainly see some of those guys have been thrown into some different roles and really starting to develop and step it up. Yeah when you lose some guys and the defensive end you got to step in and make some plays and offensively you know we had to change the things around and we've done a good job doing that. We kind of know who we are now. We have two solid midfield lines now which is really great. I mean we only had like a line and a half earlier in the season and so we're getting to that point and now our changes at the attack have really helped us and made us a lot more dangerous. I coach you wish the best of luck and we'll see you right here tomorrow night. Thanks Greg. Looking forward to it. All right for Paul Cantamini. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Paul Cantamini Show.