 Hello and welcome to Paul Cantamene show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royston, my Stevenson head men's lacrosse coach, Paul Cantamene. Coach, we started off last week. You played Stevenson here at home. Certainly exciting finish, but come back by your guys down 11-6. The second half came back to winning overtime. Yeah, I thought we saw a lot of toughness down the stretch there, being down five sometimes in the second half, and we made some good plays and got back into it, and we really made some key plays right when the game mattered, and I thought we got a good stop with under a minute to go, that big shot for us to go over time, and then, you know, Ethan made the big shot to win it. But I thought, you know, Justin Bernetti played outstanding in that game, and Sam Ross really kept us in it. So, you know, we got to continue to build off that and move forward, but, you know, I thought it was a good win for our program off a very good Stevenstein. They were ranked 13th in the country, and, you know, probably end up 17-2 with their conference and everything like that, so that was a pretty good win for us. Yeah, obviously, like you said, the performance by Justin at the Face-Off Acts on Tuesday night really won you that game because you had, you know, possessed 26-29 Face-Offs. Again, it's the top 20 team that's virtually unheard of. Yeah, it's pretty good. So, Justin's playing well, but, you know, up into that game, he only lost, I think, the, like, eight Face-Offs in the last three games, so he's really coming on when it matters. Yeah, absolutely. And obviously, like you said, the fight, the heart you guys showed to come back in that game, you know, being down so much. Yep. You know, and like you said, for the most part of this year, you guys have fought and battled. Yeah, for the most part, and I think the big game that we've always played pretty tough, even with all their injuries and where we are, I think the guys have really played hard for most of the year, and that's really good to see as we keep going forward to our conference play. Yeah, and then Friday, you go down to Lynchburg. You know, first half, you're up at halftime. Second half, they were able to make a run and put away a little bit. Yeah, it was just disappointing in the second half. I thought we played pretty well in the first half, along with them. It was a really tough game, and I think they just came out and kind of punched us in the face, and we didn't really respond too well offensively. You know, we turned the ball over way too much, and only got one shot in the third quarter and seven in the fourth quarter, and I thought they did a good job just possessing the ball and grinding us down and playing with that, and that was a big game for them. You know, they really needed that, and I thought they played excellent in the half, so all the credit goes to them, but it was disappointing to see us not play as well in the second half and not really show the courage or the toughness that we needed to win that game, but I think hopefully we'll bounce back this coming up week against Lycoming and Messiah, but you know, we need to play better in the offensive end. That really is more disappointing if our defense hung in there. I think it was our offense that really kind of cost us that game, and we need to be a lot tougher when the game matters, so it was unfortunate we played so well in the second half. We played so well in the half against Stevens, and not to play so well in the second half against them, but it's always a tough bus ride down there. It took us about five hours through the mountains and all that fun stuff, and to do that in one day and down was a little tougher for us, and we had some injuries pop up as well. Tyler Marusso got hurt, and Jimmy Walsh got hurt, and our midi-dies were really banged up, but they played with a lot of courage, and that really did a great job is just that we didn't possess the ball long enough or make the tough plays we needed to make. Yeah. Now this week you transitioned for the rest of the legacy, you transitioned to conference play, you're at Lycoming tomorrow, and then back home to Saturday against Messiah. Yeah, Lycoming's had a good season. I think they're 6-3 in the year. They're not scoring a ton of goals, but they're keeping themselves in the games, and we're going to have to play real well tomorrow in order to get that W, and then Messiah's had some results. They haven't come out on top, but they played some of the best teams in the country, really tight, and Franklin Marshall and Ohio Wesleyan, but they've had some tough games in conference. They had a one-goal victory over Lebanon Valley, 4-3, and they just beat Lycoming 11-9, so they're getting some close games, but we're going to have to play good lacrosse in order to win these two games this week, that's for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Like you said, those teams have made some close games against some good competition, so it could be two battles this week. Yeah, we're going to have to play well, so Justin's going to have to continue to play, and Sam's going to play well, but we have to play better in offense for us to be successful, and that's what we really will be concentrating on. I think our defense has given us a chance. Our offense can't contribute to why we don't win. Yeah. All right, Coach, thanks for your time. We wish you the best of luck this week. Thanks a lot, Craig. All right, for Paul Cantamini, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Paul Cantamini Show.