6-5, not your typical Middlebury score. While the offense is still putting things together, it's been nice to have our goalie and defensive group step up in our first two games.

Of Springfield's 5 goals, only two came in 6v6 offense. The others came off of a failed clear, a bad turnover by our offense that led to a one on o with our goalie, and the other was a breakdown in our man-down unit. The final one resulted in a time and room shot from about 8 yards. Overall it was a great effort by our defensive group. Charlie Schopp has been doing a great job on ball and doing exactly what we've asked of him. Matt Rayner is a physical presence at the defensive end of the field and Henry Clark is getting the hang of playing close defense for us. At long stick midfield we've had a great surprise with the play of freshman John Duvnjak (Manhasset, NY). He's plays with a lot of heart and is a tough competitor.

We're also getting some nice contributions from our short stick d-mids, mainly Matt Virtue and Alex Englert. Matt may be playing the best lacrosse of his career right now and Alex scored two big goals yesterday in transition.

Offensively we did create some good looks yesterday but didn't put them away. We also gave away too many possessions with careless turnovers. We need to sharpen things up at that end of the field and get on the same page. Once we do that I believe we'll be a good offensive group. Hopefully that happens this weekend!

Time to move on to Wesleyan, they've already lost two games this year and judging from their score yesterday, they're not too pleased about it. As always it should be a good one on Saturday.