 Hello and welcome to the Paul Cantamene show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce showing my Stevenson head men's lacrosse coach Paul Cantamene. Coach, first of all congratulations. I'm able to win your sixth straight Commonwealth title this past Saturday. Both games this week, both games this past week, defense really stepped up and you got it to strong starts. Well, I think they really did. You know, I think they did a great job. You know, especially Tom and Andrew Costco and Austin Howard and Kevin McCarthy and all those guys. Chas Collison and Al Falco did a great job. I think they really kind of took it personally. They didn't give as many accolades as they wanted in the conference awards. But I thought they just played so well as a team giving up the right shots and Sam making some quality saves when he needed them. And so we really like the way we're playing defense and I think they just really are playing much better as a unit. The more they get to know each other and they've done a great job. So we're really, really happy, especially with the play of Drew Costco, you know, being named the tournament MVP. He's done such a great job improving each and every week and he's really becoming a factor. Yeah. And obviously the offense was able to take that momentum from the defense. And obviously Justin winning faceoffs and we're able to score some goals quickly and get some nice leads. Yeah, it was great. You know, I think we just did a good job of capitalizing on the shots we need to. Sometimes, you know, we take some shots and we bailed teams out. But I thought we did a great job of making shots and really getting teams put on their heels. And I think they did a great job for us to really get after him, especially in that second game against Wyden. You know, in the championship game, getting out to a 10-nothing lead and really making them kind of panic and do something. So I thought we did a great job just taking what they give us, making shots. And I thought we were really unselfish at the same time. Yeah. Now, obviously winning the conference championship, I earned you another NCAA trip to 10th straight. Only five other teams, I believe, have had a streak that long. It's nice. I like that. You know, it just shows you, I mean, it really goes back to all the quality players we've had over the last 10 years. You know, we've had some great guys been part of this program and to make the NCAA tournament 10th straight years. If you would have told me that when I took over this program 14 years ago, you'd make 10th straight. I would have took the 100 on that for sure, you know. But I just think it's been great and all the guys involved. And it's not just me and the coaching staff and, you know, it's the school and everybody's done so much to help us. And that's one of the great parts about being about this is that how long we've been doing it. There's been so many people that deserve so much credit. Yeah, absolutely. And you'll face a team you haven't faced before in Ithaca. So I'm sure you've got a chance to look at a little bit of film. And what do you know about them? Well, you know, the great part is Jeff Long's their coach. Me and him are both Reinecoyd High School alumni. So, you know, we get a couple Indians as batting heads, as we said. But it's great to go up there. You know, they're a quality team. Just a real purist of the game. It's playing the game the way it's meant to be played. So that's going to be a great effort for us. And they've got a couple of good D guys. They've got a couple of really good midfielders. And they played a great schedule. They played in a great conference, a Liberty conference, which is really good. And they played some quality teams. And it's going to be a good game because we have to travel to go up there. So it's going to be a little tougher on us with the mental test to be able to do that. But we're looking forward to the challenge. And you've got to play good teams no matter what, especially where we are now, kind of going to the Northern region. Every game up there is going to be a really good game. And we've got to be ready to go. But we're looking forward to the challenge. I know our guys are just excited to get a couple more days together. And hopefully we can get a couple more weeks together. And you know, it's been really a fun year now coming from where we came from, you know, to make this run. You know, in five, now to 12 and six is really a great turnaround. And I don't think a lot of teams could have done that with the injuries we have. But I get all my players the credit. They really stepped up and did some great things. And hopefully we can do it one more time Wednesday afternoon. All right, Coach, we wish you the best of luck. I think we'll see you up there. And we'll chat next week. Thanks a lot. Go Stangs. All right, for Paul Cantamini, I'm Greg Royce. Welcome to the Paul Cantamini Show.