 Welcome back to the Green Turtle Classic. Sid's Weigman from SFM Sports.net here with Mustang head coach Paul Kintabene. Coach you guys win 11 to 9 tonight over Cortland. How big was it for you guys to get out to a great start? Oh it's big because we haven't been out to a great start in a little while you know so it's good to get out and get it going early. That was a big thing we wanted to play together and play with confidence early on you know so I think we did a much better job of that. I think the guys are learning how to play together a little bit. I think you know sometimes a little bit of humble pie and those two losses back to back really got straightened the guys up a little bit might be what we needed. I thought we played tougher you know I thought we did some good things better off getting off to that good start and you know we held on in the end there a little bit. One of the things you talked about heading in the locker room was everybody moving the ball moving players moving you know easy to say guys move but how did it happen tonight? Well I mean that's we you know we run a motion offense is what we're supposed to be doing and when you stand still just doesn't really look good and that's what we're kind of doing. I think the guys just wanted the ball we had to make them buy in that you have to everybody's together doesn't matter who scores the goals and that's what I think we're starting to get a little more buy-ins we had a little ball better ball movement more assist things are happening a little bit better. Tough to break into the Stevenson lineup as a freshman Kyle de Nofrio didn't get a lot of playing time last year this year he's really starting to step up four goals tonight already has more goals than he had last season what is he doing well and how is he stealing playing? Well he's such a great off ball cutter first of all you know he's a tough guard you know he's 6-1 you know he's very lanky he can shoot with either hand and cut with either hand so he makes it really tough on goal he's how he does it so you know he's coming along you know he's he's had a couple big games played really well in the Roanoke wins so we need him to continue to develop and he played great Billy Bregorn is out today with a sprained ankle you know he really stepped up when the senior was out and he really stepped up and did a good job. Turnovers bit you guys last night 32 of them how great was it to keep it to 10 which is low for you guys where you've been having around 20. Yeah you know well we turn it over sometimes but when you play aggressive it happens I think tonight we've really valued the ball you know seeing some of those turnovers really in the fourth quarter too which is unfortunate four of them the second half really two in the first we have to control that and we didn't end the game well you know Steve made a poor play Tony mouthed off and another kid was talking to him and the ref called it for whatever reason you know we had an unfortunate play at the end there by Taylor Morgan we just can't do that kind of stuff we have to make the plays the win so Coralyn played a lot of class I thought they did hard we got to handle the end of the game better Coralyn you know I give my tip my hat to them they played hard and but we got to handle those end of the game situations a lot better. One end of the game situation you guys are up 10 to 9 you get a takeaway on the defensive end it got to in the Stephen Bannock stick I think my call was something like what do you do if you're Stephen Bannock do you go for the goal or you play keep away is that a situation where you guys want him going to the goal or you want him going to the goal if it goes in well you know it's like one of those no no great job yeah you know so uh you know obviously we wanted to be smart we still had a couple minutes left so they're going to put the timer on us so but we had to make a play and be smart Steve made a play to get us that two goal lead which is huge you know and then uh you know and then we kind of had to hang on there a little crazy two minutes coach do you have a quick preview of Salisbury for Wednesday uh well you know they're a lot like Coralyn you know they got some good middies they got some decent attackmen they face off fairly well got a good goal so Coralyn kind of give us a good idea what they're about uh we got to go down there and play better you know we got to take the next step you know they'll be ready for us where it's always a very emotional game for both schools you got to be with the stand that and uh you know we'll go down there and do the best we can but obviously Salisbury is playing their best lacrosse right now how much of this green turtle classic playing two top 10 teams back to back uh prepare you guys for Wednesday and for the rest of the year well you know we played three top 10 teams in five days so uh you know I think it prepares us for the season because we play such a tough schedule we still got to play you know Salisbury we got to play Albury who's six and one right now then we got to play uh um I got to play Lynchburg who's five and two playing really well right now they're a dangerous team six and two so you know we got a lot of tough games but that's what our schedule prepares us for our conference prepares us for the NCAA and hopefully we'll be in a good shape so we get used to playing a high level lacrosse and we want to play the best teams and sometimes you play the best teams you're going to lose games but um you know but we're doing a good job just maintaining our course here get another solid win here and we're just moving forward coach thanks for your time we'll see you Wednesday night thanks a lot that was Mustang's head coach Paul Kintabedi at the green turtle classic on sfmsports.net back at the green turtle classic I'm Sid's Wigman with sfmsports.net here with courtland head coach Steve Bevel coach another tough loss for you guys tonight 11 to 9 and the hands of Stevenson if you look at the stat sheet you guys had more ground balls more shots on goal what was the difference in your mind tonight well I think it was the beginning of the game that you know the start of the game they got off quick um you know Rossi and number four you know played extremely well early you know punched a few in we started a freshman goalie that you know had never been in one of these moments before and I think it was rattled early Stevenson jumped them and you know that was a huge difference and and I think you know they were able to hold on even though we did you know dominate some parts of the game that was a great Division 3 game and you know hats off to Stevenson for getting the win. You guys fall behind 10 to 5 can you take uh you know coming back scoring four straight making a one goal game late you guys take on that and build as your season continues. Well we've done it about three or four times now so I'm a little sick of you know taking those those are getting down early and coming back all the time so we've got to fix that you know we got to come out early we got to be that team that jumps out and gets to an early lead and I think you know we've showed some heart you know that's a good thing we did again tonight but you know we got to take care of the take care of the ball early take care of things early in the game and give us a better chance to win. How much does coming to Owings Mills and playing in the Green Turtle Classic help you guys prepare for the rest of the season and the run you hope to go on at the end of the season. Well it's a great event I mean we played two you know in my opinion I think Lynchburg may have been 11 but they're outstanding right now they're playing great lacrosse and and you know being a southern team and we've dealt with some weather problems obviously but you know Stevenson's also a quality team the top five teams so playing these two games and especially playing two in a row you know it's pretty brutal you know to play two games you know within 48 hours so I think this is going to help us conditioning wise it's going to help us you know attitude wise you know and you know build build for the rest of the season. We've got some great opponents coming up you know in the next few weeks and I know that Stevenson does as well so I think we'll be ready. Coach Bevel we appreciate your time and best of luck the rest of the season. Thanks a lot. That was Courtland head coach Steve Bevel on sfmsports.net at the Green Turtle Classic.