We took a step in the right direction yesterday with a pretty solid performance against a tough Skidmore team and came away with the win 11-9. The biggest factors in this game were our face off men, our goaltending, and a good performance on offense by David Hild. Brian Foster and Peter Jennings ended up winning a combined 17 out of 23 face offs on the day and also handled the ball well in the middle of the field.

Once again Ryan Deane was excellent in cage for us and made Skidmore earn everything they got on the scoreboard.

Finally, David Hild stepped up the way we've been hoping he would by scoring 3 goals and adding 2 assists. I really have to credit Dave for bouncing back after a so-so performance against Bowdoin where he actually scored 2 of our 6 goals. On Monday in our film session with the team it was made clear that he didn't take advantage of some good opportunities vs. the Polar Bears and he wasn't the only one letting these opportunities slip away. Yesterday it was not only Dave who decided to step up and play big for us but some other guys followed his lead. Senior captain Jeff Begin stuck a shot in the first quarter to extend our lead and freshman Mike Giordano assisted and scored on our first two goals. Another freshman who is showing some promise is Erich Pfeffer who added a goal and an assist. Pfeff has earned the right to be out on the field more as we get into the home stretch, expect to see more out of him in our upcoming games.

No time to relax here as we have the Trinity Bantams coming to town on Saturday. They've had a down year so far but just beat up on a pretty good Eastern CT. team yesterday. I've also learned over the past few years that they get up for this game like no other, should be a good one.