 Hello and welcome to the Paul Canteveni show presented by Buffalo Wildlands. I'm Greg Royce showing my students and men's lacrosse coach Paul Canteveni. Coach, you opened up conference play last week with a couple big wins over Hood and Albright. Just talk about those wins and the importance of starting conference playoff on a strong note. It's always important to start conference playoff, you know, winning a few games and I think we did a good job of that. We got a lot of people in. I thought we played well, got a little confidence and we're able to kind of move forward and get ready for another big week for us. Yeah, talk a little bit this week. You've got you've got Christopher Newport and you've got like home in a conference game. So Christopher Newport got a chance to play a ranked team and play another quality top 20 opponent. Yeah, they're a lot like us. You know, they've had one one one win against a ranked team and got some other losses against some other ranked teams and they beat who they showed up just kind of like us. And so it'll be a pretty big game for both our teams to kind of set us up where we're going to rank regionally, hopefully. But you know, we got to continue to play well. They got a couple good attack when I think our defense is playing better. We're back to full health now. I think we're through the full flu season now. And I think we're they were kind of playing well and doing the right things. And I think we've done that a lot this year. We just got to put together 60 minutes. Yeah, talk about like we're right before conference play, obviously you played, you know, played in Salisbury, Lynchburg, York and tough straight in a row. I thought three of those four games, you know, there were stretches where you played pretty well. And obviously that fourth game tough, she alluded to it a little bit that yeah, I think we're putting together 3045 minutes, you know, just that 15 minutes that we're not all there. That's kind of really hurt us in all those games. And so we just got to continue to get better and learn from that. I think the way we've played has really helped us throughout the year playing all those tough teams for a certain level of play. I think our guys understand that and it helps us always and helps us in the second half of our season just getting better because we know the level we need to play at in order to be successful. And I don't think our plays ever dropped down in the second half of the season. I saw it got better. Yeah. And like you said, you kind of chance to play some different guys and I mean, it's a couple freshmen that really stood out recently or Seth Thornton's face off and came late in. Yeah, I think Seth's had a great year for us at the face off position. You know, he's done really well. He's getting better and he's been a real asset, especially in some of our big games, keep giving us the ball back, allowing us to go on runs. And and camp's been a starter for us all year. You know, he's done so well, but shooting the ball, facilitating the ball. But I think we have some other kids now stepping up, especially, especially Shane Ford who's playing so well now getting that second line midfield Ryan Coleman is now playing a lot more for us doing a good job. Josh Brandon's in the mix now doing a good job. So those are all kids that are pretty talented. They're going to help us down the stretch. So it's good to see them getting in the mix and getting a little confidence. Yeah, kind of now since another one stopped you. Yeah, another freshman attacking Ford is getting some play. He's played a lot, you know, in and out of the lineup, but he's done a good job. So he's another big kid that can help us and do some things. So we got a really good freshman class that we can really build on for the future. There's no question about it. Yeah, absolutely. Now he talked about the challenge to try to put that 60 minute game together. As a coaching staff, there's a team, how do you figure out how to do that moving forward as you get towards the end of the season? Well, I think a lot of us do us our mentality. I think, you know, we just got to come in with the right mentality. Now worry about who's scoring the goals and who's making the plays, just doing your job and getting better each time. I think at times that we haven't been able to do it for 60 minutes, but I think each game we're kind of getting better to that and understanding how we have to play. And so I think our challenge is to put our guys in the right position so they can be successful. And that's kind of what we've done with the line of change is a little bit move some people around. I think we're getting closer to what is the lineup that we need to be successful. All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck starting Wednesday right here against Chris Newport, Mustang Stadium, and we'll chat again soon. Thanks a lot, Greg. All right, for coach Paul Campimani, I'm Greg Roy since this has been the Paul Campimani Show.