 Hello and welcome to the Evan Clifton Show. I'm Joe Wambaugh, and we're going to do another home event on Friday playing Penn State Harrisburg. A little bit of a disappointing performance on the men's side, but a strong performance on the women's side. Two sides of the coin are there. Yeah, certainly. The men's side, we knew it was going to be a close match. We knew it was going to be a tough match. We knew it wasn't something that we were definitely going to win or definitely going to lose. We knew it was going to be up in the air. And really, unfortunately, we lost two and three doubles, and that has sort of been the crux of all of our losses this spring. We've done great at one doubles. We've done fantastic at one singles, but two and three doubles have really hurt us a lot. We just haven't been able to pull out matches and close games, really. What was disappointing with this match was even though scores were like 8-3, 8-1, or 8-2, at two and three doubles, all the games were close. We got to deuce a lot. We got a lot of break points, a lot of game points. And in the rallies in those points, we got the shots we wanted. We got the chance to put it away at the net, but we didn't take it. We were more content to block them back. So we're going to work on this week in practice, and we're certainly going to bring that killer instinct that we were missing when we played Shenandoah on Friday on the men's side. The women's side, however, in a match was great. It was similar to the men that a lot of matches were close. One doubles, we won 8-6, it was one break. Two doubles, we were down 5-2, came back and won that match, 8-6. Colleen Martin was in her first match of the spring and really helped dominate three doubles with Nina Bretz, and then Colleen went on and won her singles match fairly easily in straight sets. But in singles on the women's side, we had a three-set match at one, which Jenna pulled out. We had a three-set match at three singles, which Kelsey pulled out. Kelsey probably didn't have her A game, but bound a way to win, and that's what you need to do in close matches. You're not always going to have your A game. The fact that she's at her winning streak and as a freshman is able to find a way to win and dig deep with her B or C game is pretty remarkable. Women's seems feeling great. We really put it all together Friday, pulled out that nice win and carried that over to Shenandoah. The men's side, we know what we need to correct. We were working on it this weekend with some guys, and we'll be back at it all week in practice. And also, and Brian had a fantastic, another great match at one singles and other straights that win. He's on an absolute roll. Hopefully we keep that going and the other guys can pick up their level a little bit Friday, and then we can get a win at Shenandoah and prepare us for Saturday at Lake Oman. And sometimes with team sports like this, you see some people having some success. Generally the women's team would see the men's team having success, but now it's the men's team seeing the women. What does that do in terms of motivation to get out there, keep working hard and turn it around? Sure. Yeah, I think that definitely adds a little bit of fuel to the fire. When you're seeing the other, you're happy, I'm sure they're happy that the women's team are doing well, but when you see one team celebrating the other team feeling ejected, you want to be that team that's celebrating too. And like I was saying, guys were hitting this weekend. We were back at it, so I know they're motivated. I know we're going to put in the work and we're just ready for Friday, ready to get another chance to set things right and then prepare us for Lycoming. This week you're going to be spending a lot of time on those doubles efforts. What does that do to get you ready for Shenandoah and then what does the Shenandoah match do to get you ready for the Lycoming and the rest of the conference schedule? Sure. Yeah, on the men's side, double is going to be a huge focus. We can't go into singles down 2-1 or 3-0. We need to be in the lead. That's how we've always done it. We were so successful last year. Every match we won, we went into singles with either a 3-0 sweep lead or a 2-1 lead. It puts so much less pressure on you in singles and it doesn't feel like you have a mountain to climb to win the match. That's going to be a huge focus of ours, putting away volleys and being the aggressive team at the net like we know we need to be. Shenandoah is a good team. It's a team we beat on the men's side last year, 8-1, but it was a much closer match than that. They have a lot of new guys, so they're a lot better. The women's side we lost last year, so we're sort of trying to right that wrong on the women's side. And then the guys' side we know we're in for a dog fight. It's going to be a tough team, but if we can play the way we know we can play and keep the match we have a close match or we pull out a win, then we should be riding very high for Lycoming. We can have success against Shenandoah, then we definitely should be fine here Saturday at home. Is it difficult to play matches back-to-back days? You guys did it a lot during spring break. You guys were playing four matches that week. Is it tough to do that? I don't know. We don't really look at that way. The only sort of difficulty in that is that if you play bad on that first match, you don't have much time to work on things and find those strokes before you turn around and play the next day. But as far as from a physical point, no, I really don't think it's too tough. A lot of teams sometimes even play two matches in one day, double headers and things. You see other sports do it, baseball plays double headers, they played one Friday. That's something that I personally don't think makes too much of a difference, and I don't think any of my guys or girls approach it that way in a negative way at all. Well, coach, I thank you for your time this week and good luck against Shenandoah. Right in the ship and getting things going in the conference schedule against the light coming. Thank you. We look forward to it. He's Evan Clifton. I'm Joe Wamba and this has been the Evan Clifton Show.