 Hello, welcome to the Paul Cantametti show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined with Stevenson head men's lacrosse coach Paul Cantametti. Coach who hosted the annual Mustang Classic this weekend and played twice. First game against Dickinson on Friday night, got another close competitive game. And just kind of take us through that one and then take us through Saturday night's game as well. I thought we did a good job against Dickinson. It was a good game, they're a really talented offensive team. You know they got some really good guys on that edge of the field and they're big. You know they got some sizable guys in there. And right now they probably got one of the best goalies in the country. You know he had, I think, 16 saves against us and did really well. And I thought we really kind of grinded it out. Unfortunately we lost Joey Cantametti in that game, another one of our starting D guys. You know to a broken tibia so he'll be out for the year. But you know I thought we really competed well and got after it. And unfortunately just came up a little short with that game. But overall you know I think Dickinson probably had one of the better weekends of all the teams here. Getting two real solid victories beating Denison the next day. And against York I thought you know we had a little trouble bouncing back. You know I think the physicality of the Dickinson game caught up to us a little bit. And not having a lot of time to repair especially losing our third senior defenseman. And I thought they did a great job shooting the ball to get to some good spots. We got down early, you know I thought we fought the whole time but our guys, you know, we needed to do a better job stepping up and understanding the situations a little bit more. And we didn't get the effort that we hoped we'd get. And unfortunately we lost by more than we thought we would. But you know we got another great chance to bounce back coming up this week. You know we got to get better and you know the coach didn't do the team any favors with this competitive schedule. And we just got to keep grinding away. I think in the end we'll be better for it right now. But you are who your record says you are. But you know we're just getting better. And I like your guys our attitude is good and we're continuing to push forward. Yeah I mean that's the good thing. There's not a lot of time to dwell on this. You've got two big games coming up this week with Tops on Tuesday and then Cabrini on Friday. So you get back after practice tonight and you know get back after. That's what it's all about. I mean the kids coming here to play the best teams in the country. And weekend and week out and that's what we do. We're not trying to avoid anybody. And you know sometimes you know when you get into the arena and you're playing the best teams things don't go all your don't always go all your way. You can look at UMBC versus Virginia and some of the upsets in the NCAA tournament and sometimes teams start slower you know. UMBC lost by 40 one time I think this year to a team. So you just got to keep bouncing back and going. We got good guys you got good players. And then you know right now we just got to get to a good mental spot that we know we can compete and keep going after day after day. And you know we're really still pretty high on our guys. And you know we just got to keep moving forward. You know we'll get there. Yeah like you said in the long run this will make you guys better and hopefully you know come tournament time you know conference tournament time you'll be better for it. Yeah well we're not going to be surprised by anything you know. I think the level of play is going to be better for us for conference play. We're going to know how to play at a higher level and not drop down and you know just keep playing. And the conference play starts next weekend and so next week I mean so we really got to get going. But I think we're going to be alright. We just got to keep grinding away and doing what we do and so it is what it is. You know we've had 12 great years and now we're just having a little bit of a hiccup. It's just that we're playing you know this week if we play Tufts and Cabrini are ranked where we think they are. That's going to be six teams that are ranked in the top five that we've played as possible at that time that we played them. And that's pretty good you know. And the other one's going to be a top ten team. You know what I mean. So in which Dickinson will be this weekend. So you know it is what it is. We just got to keep grinding away and we'll get there. And one day we'll get over that damn. We're trying though you know keep crawling. Absolutely. And finally just you know another great Mustang classic a lot of competitive games. Just again once a wonderful event that you and LaCrosse were going to put on this weekend. Yeah I mean I think it's a really the success of the program is a testament to everybody here at Stephenson that works on the security and the SID people and the field people and all the students that have to work and everybody that's involved in our whole athletic department but it just really emphasizes what a great product division three is and some of the teams that we have and some of the players that we have all the teams that came did such a great job and it's a big financial thing for them to be here and play and do it. But everybody's so excited about it and just the atmosphere of all the games and how many people attended it just shows you what a great event it is and we couldn't do it without the teams. Those teams really left everything on the field and they couldn't be more excited to be here. We even got some line in the Midwest teams wanting now and they want another bracket and all that kind of stuff. So we have to get Coach Adams to build us another field I think and maybe get a little bit bigger budget to do it but you know it just shows you what a great event it is and how many people want to be a part of it and we'll keep growing and hopefully get better and all those coaches that were there and thank you for all the effort and everybody that put all the hard work into it to make it one of the great weekends of the division three season. Once again, a fun event as always. We'll coach. We wish you the best of luck this week and we'll talk to you next week. Thank you very much. All right, for Paul Cantabeni, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Paul Cantabeni Show.