Washington eager to bury Gettysburg loss in past

No. 17 Shoremen looking forward to starting new winning streak with home game Wednesday vs. Swarthmore

No. 17 Washington doesn’t have much time to sit and bemoan Saturday’s 13-11 loss to No. 13 and Centennial Conference rival Gettysburg as another league foe in Swarthmore will visit Roy E. Kirby Jr. Field in Chestertown Wednesday night and then the Shoreman will travel to meet Salisbury in another installment of their War on the Shore series.

Even so, coach Jeff Shirk said the players are taking the setback in stride.

“We talked to them a little bit [Sunday], and I think it was a little bit of disappointment because we felt like we really let one slip away,” Shirk said Monday. “But we got the guys in this morning for a lift and I think the mood is kind of upbeat and excited to get back on the field, excited that it’s a short week. We don’t have to wait a whole week to get back on the field. So it’s a pretty good group in that they haven’t really dwelled a whole lot – good or bad – throughout the season. It’s been, ‘Let’s focus on the next task at hand.’ So the mood is upbeat.”

Few programs schedule midweek games at this point in the season, but Shirk said the players are looking forward to taking the field against the Garnet.

“Our guys do really well when we’re playing and we don’t have too much time to think about a game,” he said. “So I’m absolutely excited to get Wednesday’s in so that we can move on from Gettysburg and – maybe more importantly – don’t focus on Salisbury.”