Trinity had clinched a #3 seed going into the weekend and regardless of what they did against Connecticut College they knew they would be hosting the #6 seed.  Judging by the 8-2 loss against Conn it looks as if they rested some guys on Saturday to keep them fresh for Sunday.

We came out on Sunday with a fire that I haven't seen all season long.  Even though we went down 0-1 early and they had a few great opportunities during the 1st quarter, you could tell we were going to keep pressure on them for the entire game.  We created fast breaks off of face offs, rides, saves, ground balls and only played harder as the game moved along.  Skyler Hopkins (McDonogh, MD) finished the day with 5 goals and was the beneficiary of some great rides and unsettled situations.  Overall we had 9 different goal scorers including 2 from Rory Sanborn (McDonogh, MD) who sends the sideline into a frenzy every time he scores.  Can't quite explain it but he's just one of those guys that everyone roots for.

Alex Palmisano was also stellar in goal for us and allowed us to run away with the game.  It was also a good to get Nick Bastis going again, he finished the day with 2 goals and 2 assists and was the force in the midfield that he's capable of being.   In the 4th quarter he scored what could possibly be described as the second most spectacular goal I've seen in my time at Middlebury. (The first being Holt Hopkins' pump high, around the world/back breaker against Nazareth in the 2001 NCAA semifinals).  Nick was inverting against Trinity and was matched up against a short stick at x (directly behind the cage).   All of a sudden he made a quick move to his right, dove and stuck a one handed righty shot in the upper corner while landing outside of the crease.  Nick's a lefty.

Overall it was a great team effort on Sunday, hopefully one that can carry us through this week and against Tufts on Saturday.  2 of the 3 teams left have beaten us in overtime and the 3rd beat us convicingly at their place.  We are in unfamiliar territory being the underdogs going into this weekend but I think it's placed a nice chip on our shoulder going forward.  I'm excited to see what these guys are capable of.