 Hello and welcome to the Evan Clifton show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce showing my Stevenson tennis head coach Evan Clifton Coach you guys wrapped up the regular season on Saturday. You traveled to Arcadia both the men and women and the men closed out of victory and the women Fortunately suffered a fee and unfortunately missed out on a playoff spot via the tiebreaker So first let's just talk about the men and them finishing strong. Yeah So it was another good win for the guys. It's six in a row for a second time this spring We're streaking again, and that's good. We look to continue that into the the max semi-final Rematch against Lev Valle. So yeah, man, the match was great doubles. We came out with a sweep pretty quick You know there was eight four one and then the other two and three doubles We took a little bit a little bit quicker in that so it was nice to get out there kind of stomp on them early And then you know get to get the first two singles wins and clinch right away 5-0 was it was nice Yeah, and then allowed us to sort of focus as coaches focused on the women's match and And they you know that was a dogfight. It was a tough match the girls We knew we we sort of we sort of had to win it to get in and you know, we didn't get it done We were we were there. We were close doubles. We started really slow at one the girls rebounded and we're able to To come back. They were down. I think seven four that match and we're able to win 97 and then or sorry 98 and I break and then so it was nice It was a nice match for our one-doubles team to finish the conference undefeated So for the first time so it was nice unfortunately two and three we just couldn't quite get it done And then in singles we you know, we had a tight three-set match of one We had three set match at four singles that we pulled out But you know Kelsey played injured at three Kirsten struggled at two You know, and we just couldn't get it quite done at at six singles But yeah hats off to Arcadia those girls came to play and and they took it to us Yeah And obviously ended up being a three-way tie for the for a two final playoff spots Unfortunately just based on points you guys missed out. Yeah. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Yeah So obviously the women that wraps up their season and although obviously quite get to where you want to be obviously Marked improvement on the women's side. You have to be encouraged, you know by that with everybody coming back next year Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah, definitely the team made a lot of strides certainly improved on last year But really what I what I was really happy with this season is you know We were sort of struggling going into spring break and and we had to change the things girls had to sort of look within themselves and You know figure out like how to own and correct their mistakes And we've done it and they got better and they got a lot better throughout the spring We didn't quite finish as strong as we wanted there at the end But we know we'll be back and that's a lot of that is you know We don't have it. We didn't have a single senior in the lineup You know it was all freshmen and sophomores, you know in two juniors and so the experience factor You know it's going to be more in our favor next year and we'll be able to win those close matches having been there before Yeah, absolutely having some some of the some experience in those high-pressure matches where there's something on line will actually help going forward Absolutely. Yeah, and now we'll shift gears to the men's side. You open up conference playoffs You have a home match tomorrow at 330 over on Green Spring Against Lebanon Valley, you know match. It was very tight during the regular season Yeah, you know obviously it'll be a doc fight once again. Yeah, it will be You know, it was a tough match we played them before we you know We took two out of three doubles We really struggled with three doubles that match and we'll have a little bit different combination of doubles lineup simply I mean we really we went into that match without our number one Ray was right Ray was ill and wasn't able to play You know that being said a lot of guys stepped up. We took two out of three doubles We were up 5-1, you know, we clinched a match up 5-1 And also we held on for 5-4 victory, but you know with Ray coming back in there everyone healthy You know different a little bit different combination and doubles lineup. I think we'll you know, we're confident We should you know, we're confident. We'll get the job done We're gonna come ready to play it's gonna be I'm sure Lebanon Valley will travel with a lot of fans We're gonna have a lot of our friends and family out there. So you know come to the courts tomorrow 330 It'll be it'll be a great match. Yeah, it should be exciting. Well coach. We wish you the best of luck Not only Wednesday, but hopefully should you advance on Saturday in the conference final and I will talk to you next week Thank you. All right for Evan Clifton. I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Evan Clifton show