 Hello, and welcome into the Evan Clifton show. I'm Joe Wamba. Join now with Evan Clifton, head coach of the tennis programs. Coach, you guys had a pretty big week last week. Just talk a little bit about those matches that you had. Sure. Well, the first middle of the week, both teams, we hosted Messiah, defending conference champs on the men's side and the women's side. So we knew that was going to be a very, very tough match. And on the women's side, we responded really well. I mean, it was similar to the light coming match. We had a lot of very close matches. Many that could have gone either way. We had a really, I mean, Jenna was down a set in 5-2 in number one singles to a very good player in Kelly Hopkins. And she was able to get the two breaks back and level the match, win the second set in a tie break, and then was down a break or down 5-4 in a third set, broke back, forced a tie break, won the third set, and number one singles match in a tie break. So it was a really nice win for her after having a couple of really close, tough losses in the last few weeks. It was nice for her to be able to respond and pull that out. So on the women's side, we lost 5-4 to Messiah, which is a pretty encouraging result considering their defending conference champs is a very good team. And we really use that momentum on the women's side to carry us to a win Saturday at Albright. So it was nice to get that 6-3 win. So we're 1 and 2 in the conference, still in the playoff hunt for sure. On the men's side, again, we had much tougher time with Messiah. They're just a very, very good team. They were certainly better than us on that day. We were just disappointing for a number of matches. We had a really good match at 1-doubles. Came down to, we were 7-6 down serving, and serve faltered a little bit. And we lost the number 1 doubles match, 8-6. Number one singles, Brian had a really tough match, played really well with Tim Dunn, who's just playing just so well this week. He lost 4-2. Doug Vaughn fought really well, played close as did Peter Pia. And then those guys, when we went to Albright, carried like, they were able to hang with Messiah, especially down the lineup. We gave those guys confidence and it showed. And the guys, because we really needed, Albright was very tough at the top of the lineup. So we got a nice win at 1-doubles. And then 1 and 2 singles, we lost at Albright. So we really needed, for the first time this year, we really needed the bottom of our lineup to really carry us. They had to play perfect. And we won at 4-5 and 6 singles. We were down 4-2, and with those three matches on, it doesn't matter who you're playing. When you need to be perfect like that and win it, and when you're able to pull those matches out and take the 5-4 win, you certainly are happy to have that and you draw confidence from it. And then the men played yesterday, played at Goucher against a team that beat Messiah, 7-2 or 8-1 in the fall. So we knew it was a really high level team, and we were just gonna go out there and just try to get better, play as well as we can. And we did, and we played really close at 1-doubles. We were down 5-0 pretty quickly. And then Brian Warden responded real well, got back on serve at 5-4. And then Messiah or Goucher regrouped, got a break, and they took that match 8-5. But all in all, good week. We played certainly as well as could be expected. We're preparing for the rest of our conference matches coming up this next week and for Alvernia Wednesday. You talk a lot about momentum and mentality. What does it take to win those break points when you guys really need them, especially in the four, five, and six slots? Yeah, it takes a couple of things. One, it takes not letting the moment be too big for you, not thinking about the score, not thinking about the ramifications of winning or losing that point. You need to stay focused on the process, which is something we preach in practice every single day. Focus on what you need to do on that specific ball, what you need to do to win that specific point, and you let the result take care of itself. And I think a lot of our guys are learning to do that, learning to embrace that, and it takes time. But we're certainly getting better at it, and hopefully that continues this week. And you mentioned the records in conference, the men are two-in-one, women are one-in-two, both of them right in the thick of it. What is it gonna take as this stretch continues in conference play for us to be in one of those top four spots? Yeah, well, we certainly can't overlook anybody. So we have Alvernia coming up next on Wednesday and Thursday for the men and the women. And then the following week, we go to hood for both teams and back-to-back days, and then we host Arcadia on senior day, on April 22nd. All three are teams that we beat last year on the men's side, and teams that we expect to win again this year. We gotta take it, we can't be looking, it's too early to look at the conference standings and project who's gonna finish where. We gotta take care of our business day by day, practice by practice, and beat the team in front of us. And that's what we're gonna do. Well, coach, we appreciate your time this week and every week, and we wish you the best of luck in these matches and traveling everywhere you're going. Thank you very much. He's Evan Clifton, I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Evan Clifton Show.