 Hello and welcome to the Evan Clifton Show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, showing by Stevenson Tennis Coach Evan Clifton. Coach, you got back last week you went down to Hilton Head for spring break and overall pretty successful trip. Just talk a little bit just the summary, you know, how things went overall. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean it was a great week. You know, it was not just weather wise to get out there and avoid the 30 degree weather and snow that we've been getting here the last few weeks. But you know, we got the practice every day. We played a combined between both teams. Eight matches went six and two. The guys went 4-0 for the week to keep their record a 7-0. And the girls went 2-2 and pulled out two really big wins. So definitely result wise, great week for us. Chemistry wise, fantastic. Our confidence is high. You know, it's it's prepared us for conference play next weekend. We're really ready. Yeah, absolutely. I just first talked about the guys and he said 4-0. You know, really, really on a roll still undefeated on the season. You know, just talk about the confidence they've, you know, where you've had the same lineup now for really a couple years. And that they've really become experienced, you know, college tennis players and that's really starting to show. Yeah. And like you said, that experience is really showing, especially for our seniors who from both teams are really coming up huge for us so far this spring. You know, Doug Vaughn has just been, he's been killing it in singles lineup. He's been perfect at two doubles. Yeah, I mean, for the guys this week was great. You know, it's great to win four matches. You know, obviously you get confidence from winning. But really, we're taking it, you know, the day by day mantra of one match at a time. You know, so our record says 7-0, but really we feel like we've gone 7 days 1-0. And really how we're winning is what is giving us, what gives me the most confidence. You know, just looking at the score lines, you look at seniors like Doug Vaughn and Drew Ryan, those guys. Not like when we win the first set, not only do we not give up the second set and prolong the match, but we're winning the second set, you know, by a wider margin than the first. We're getting stronger as matches go. We're getting more confident as matches go on. You know, that's been a focus of ours all spring is putting teams away, pouring it on guys once we got the lead. And, you know, we're ready to, you know, put that into action this coming weekend against LoveVal. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes that natural tendency is after the win the first set, hey, maybe I'll run off a little bit and know I won 6-2, 6-3, you know, I can go out on the coast and obviously, you know, you can't do that against anybody because anybody's going to come back and get you. And certainly the women we talked about, you know, their trip and, you know, high notes, certainly they were able to rally back against a pretty good Allegheny team. So talk a little about that match and how that went. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, the week was great for the girls. We went 2-2, all four were very tough matches. We played two teams that were just outside the regional rankings that we knew were going to be tough and we played them hard. You know, we were able to pull out a win at the end of the week against Allegheny and that was huge. They had just beat our defending regular season conference champs, Messiah, the day prior. So we were fired up. We knew they were going to be good. We knew it was going to be a challenge. But we knew just like when we play Messiah and we play our other top teams in the conference, any given day any of us can beat each other. So, you know, we came out there sort of ready to kind of put an exclamation point on the week to end on a high note to get some confidence and the girls really delivered. I mean, from doubles, Nina Bretts and Jackie Nesbeth were down 7-2 or 7-3, three doubles, came back, won four straight games, won that match in the tie break. One doubles was down a break, you know, most of the way, came back, broke at the crucial moments, pulled that match out to give us a lead in the singles. And then Kirsten Davidson played just phenomenal with two singles and won her match in three sets. And then Jackie Nesbeth tied the match up with the straight sets win. And Christina Endi, who really has got her first opportunity to play this year this week. And she came through clutch pulling out that match in three sets to give us a 5-4 win over a team that, like I said, it just beat Messiah the day prior. So we're real happy. Yeah, absolutely. Now your attention shifts, obviously you're not Florida. The weather certainly proves that. Not Florida, but South Carolina. Close enough. It's all warm. But you're back here in the Mid-Atlantic. It's a little chill here. I start conference play this weekend. Saturday you go to Lebanon Valley. A team that both sides is very strong and will certainly be two competitive matches. Yeah, it should be. It's a team we're going to have to beat if we're going to not just make the conference playoffs, but win the conference. And that's our goal in both teams. And so it'll be, it's nice to kind of play them first. We get that measuring stick right away. But ultimately, we know win or lose, it's going to be the second time around that we play them. That's going to matter even more. So we're going to keep, you know, whether we win or lose, we're keeping the same mantra one day at a time, one match at a time, and just getting better every day. Yeah, absolutely. And obviously, you know, from here on out, you know, you've got a few non-conference matches for a limited majority of your matches, you know, down to the final month here, going to be conference matches that are obviously very important and different than playing non-conference opponents. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So we're, like I said, Lev Valley Saturday and quick turnaround, Rutgers Camden on Sunday. You know, and whether it's a MAC team or out-of-conference or region team, you know, we're playing ourselves out there. You know, we're just trying to do better than we did the day before. And we feel like if we can keep that focus, that singular focus that, you know, the results will take care of themselves like they have already. Yeah, absolutely. All right, coach, well, thanks for your time. We wish you the best of luck this weekend. And, you know, going forward and now we'll chat again soon. Great. Thank you. All right. For Evan Clifton, I'm Greg Royce. 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