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		Stealth do a home and home Friday By Ralph A. Gora March 9, 2005

	SAN JOSE - The San Jose Stealth resume action after a week off tomorrow night at America West Arena in downtown Phoenix for a 7:30 p.m. game against the Arizona Sting. The Stealth, who come into the contest with a record of 3-5, will have to get their first game of the second half of the season on track. San Jose has been taking a beating despite head coach Johnny Mouradian trying to put a good face on things. If the Stealth are going to push for the postseason, the first stop needs to be the .500 mark. It all starts with games tomorrow and Saturday night against Arizona. Mouridian says it's got to be different from the game Feb. 24th in Colorado, where the Stealth opened the game strong, but later the Mammoth took over. "We were really there early on, and we looked away and we just couldn't get back into the game. So we thought it was one of our better games of the year, actually, even thought the score didn't indicate that," he said. Now facing the Sting and being two games below .500, Mouradian knows this is his team's chance to try to jump back into the race. The Stealth have been concerned about time of possession, which was a concern during the Stealth's last home game on Feb. 18. Mouradian says that the intensity of time of possession on offense and keeping it away from Arizona will be key to a successful weekend. "Our intensity level is going in peaks and valleys and as soon as we got behind the eight ball in the game, these games are like NCAA basketball. The lead changes so much, we just have to go through the game and keep your head up and burst the air with energy. When we get into those types of situations, our energy level is dropping and we just have to get that energy level back," he said. So the Stealth try it again tonight and come back to HP Pavilion on Saturday for a 7:30 p.m. faceoff in what will prove to be a test in seeing if they can jump at the chance at going to .500 right off the Jump Street. Ralph Gora joins our crack NLL analysts this weekend for their regular round of Lacrosse talk with Michael Duca, Gary Araki, and game night reporter Jeremy Harness catch one and all on 1430 KVVN San Jose and 1110 KLIB Sacramento.