As soon as the Penn State Men's Tennis Team defeated Rutgers University in doubles play last weekend, it looked forward to its next opponent.

"Now we have to get ready for the ECACs next week," sophomore Bradley Hunter said right after finishing his play last Sunday.

The brackets for the ECAC Championships were released on Tuesday and the team Penn State drew in the first round was, ironically, the same team they just finished beating two days earlier, Rutgers

The Championships that take place in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., invites the top 16 teams in the northern east coast.

The team looks to repeat its sweep of Rutgers in the tournament in which it enters as the number three seed.

But playing the same team that the Lions just beat does not make practice any easier for them.

Coach Jan Bortner professed, "aggressive play" to his players throughout practice all week.

The team pushed each other throughout practice to work harder.

One moment occurred when junior captain Malcolm Scatliffe was hitting drop shots to sophomore Ryan Berger.

"Get there, get there," Scatliffe said after Berger got to two straight shots then narrowly missed the third.

With the rain looming at practice the team practiced harder.

The Lions had an extra bounce in their step at practice, maybe because they finally got to practice at the Sarni Tennis Center.

Bortner spent a part of the practice showing the players how to adjust to the different court He split the team into doubles and sent them a message.

"Let's see if the guys in the hot seat are ready to flash," Bortner said to his team in an attempt to get the players' adrenaline flowing.

The players seemed to feed off their coach.

"Vamos," sophomore Guillermo Lasso yelled after hitting a shot by his opponent.

The rest of the team seemed to stop what they were doing and yelled "Vamos" right back.

Lasso, who didn't even play during the Classic, is a player that Bortner said to look out for in the future.

"Guillermo really elevated his game this summer," Bortner said before the season started.

"Vamos" or "Let's go" was said many times throughout the entire practice to encourage the players to get ready for the tough opponents of the upcoming tournament.

The one and two seeds of the tournament are last year's winner in Harvard University and, the team Penn State upset in the semifinals, Brown University.

The Lions went on to lose to Harvard in the finals with Penn State getting swept.

Penn State hopes to pull off both upsets this weekend but it first has to get by Rutgers.

If the Lions follow Bortner's ideals of aggressive play, they have a good chance to make the finals once again.

The guys in the "hot seat" as Bortner wanted to see in practice, will "flash."