The Panthers improved to 11-3 on the year by
picking up another NESCAC win on Saturday against Trinity. With the win
we secured a home NESCAC quarterfinal game and have guaranteed we will be no
lower than the #3 seed. Overall it was a solid performance by our
squad as we weren't as sharp as I was hoping we'd be, but still got the job
done.
Defensively our standouts were Will Ernst in the
cage and Nick Peterson at defensive midfield. Both were on top of their
game on the defensive end and Nick chipped in a goal in transition after
being a little too excited during his first couple of trips down to the
offensive end.
On offense we had another balanced scoring effort
and ended up leaning heavily on our 2nd midfield line of Kyle Soroka (Game Ball - 1g, 2a), Chase Clymer (2g's), and Sean
Carroll (2g's). We're pleased with how these guys are playing as we hit
the home stretch and hope they're ready for another big game down in
Williamstown tonight.
We had an incredible showing of alumni back in
the stands for the game on Saturday and then again on Sunday for the alumni
game. What a turnout, I'm going to try and attach a photo from the game
on Sunday, hopefully it's not too large to go out on the list serve.
Either way I'm going to find out if Bobo can
post it to our website.
The highlight of the weekend came from Roy
Heffernan who was able to spend some time with the team on Friday and Saturday.
A big thanks goes out to Heff for the time he
so generously gave to our team over the weekend and the message he delivered on
Friday night. I believe it was very well received. More than anything it
was a pretty amazing experience to see Heff
interacting with our team on the walk out to the field, during warm ups, and on
the sideline during the game. We always talk about how special our
program is and to see different generations of Panthers together like that was
about as good as it gets.
We leave for Williams in a few hours and look
forward to the opportunity to bring the Thomsen Trophy back to VT! Game
time is 6pm.