 Andy Mendoza here with head coach and excuse me with Amherst head coach John Thompson and coach You know tough start to the game obviously getting down early But what was the message at halftime that that really propelled you guys in that third period an 8-2 period and really made it a game Yeah, we clearly didn't come out the way. We would have liked to and credit RIT for for sort of putting the boots to us in The first quarter they did a really nice job off the ground You know that has been one of our our identities is winning the ground and winning the wing wing ground ball battles And just didn't do that in the first quarter And then when they locked that penalty in and we had for you know, we gave up four man down Penalties back to back to back to back that helped their run quite a bit And and so you know we went into halftime. It was nothing magical that I said It was just the guys sort of made a decision said hey you this game is gonna go one of two ways And out that's what I just told our guys in the locker room Just how proud how proud of them I how proud of them I am just for the fight They showed in that third quarter we got a good group and you know We spent all of our energy getting it to 14-13 fail the clear And you sort of just felt the air come out of the ball a little bit and and you know I thought our goalie played pretty well this game Which had been had been something that we've been focused on a little bit So it sort of is always a great lacrosse game with our IT and unfortunately we came out on the wrong end of it this year And what do you credit the resiliency of your team? I mean really when you're down like you said as much as you guys were in that first half It's easy to kind of fold up the 10 and just say you know We'll have to fight another day But your guys fought back made it a game like you said got within one and then for the rest of the way kind Of just traded goals back and forth. What do you credit that resilience in that fight? Yeah Leadership is my first answer Dylan Fennazo at the face-off stripe I think may be the best in the country and so he allows us to play the way That we want to play and that's you know getting up there into the high teens in the low 20s And and so he really did a nice job of stepping up and then Jimmy McAfee on the wings and Jordan Sanford on the wings You know, we really just got back to being us a little bit you know you started winning some wing ground balls and We just got back to being us and caring a little bit less about our opponent and caring more about ourselves and You know, I think when we do that we're a tough out for anybody and Unfortunately today, we only did that for about three-quarters and our IT certainly had something to do with that And what can you say about the game that Jackson? Herak had four goals. Some of them were really fantastic individual efforts What can you say about his performance today and what he can do moving forward also for your guys? Yeah, he's a really good athlete. It's fun watching. It's fun watching him dodge He's also shoots shoots the ball with really really good velocity and you know I think he got one it might have been his first one where he came back to his left And he got one there that really sort of got a monkey off his back and then after that he just started rolling and You know that makes it a little bit of a tough out in terms of you know Who are you gonna put the long stick on is it soul burger is a herrick and and you know I thought Jackson did a really nice job of capitalizing on that and you know Getting to spots where he had all four corners of the net to shoot at and when the ball is going 98 miles an Hour and you got four corners that makes it a little more difficult on a goalie sure Yeah, and obviously didn't get the outcome you wanted today, but big win yesterday One-on-one on the weekend. What do you take from this weekend in terms of positives moving forward for the rest of the season? First of all the Stevenson organization just the way that they put this event on I'm really grateful for being a part of it It's completely professional. It's certainly the best division three event going and the elite of the elite are here And so to get a chance to play against these two teams, you know who happen to be one and two in the country is really really great You know, I'm not so certain how different they are from our league You know the league that we face on a regular basis with you know, however many top 20 teams Six or eight or whatever it may be, you know at any time It prepares us well for for May and you know coming up on seven days from now We got we got one of those teams. So I just I I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out But you know back-to-back games certainly if we're fortunate enough to play in the in the NASCARX semi-finals and finals Certainly prepares us for May. Thanks so much for the time coach. Good luck the rest of the way appreciate it Thank you very much for more coverage on the Mustang classic. You can go to go mustang sports comm