This update will
not contain as much detail as usual because there were 3
games and I have
lots to catch up on after break!
Spring Break
results:
Middlebury 17 Denison 9
Middelbury 6 Gettysburg 10
Middlebury 14 Connecticut College 8
Good break
overall. We played great against
Denison, very athletic and the
attack shot
well. Holt Hopkins was sensational with
7 goals on awesome
shots. Zach Herbert, Dave Seeley and Greg Carroll
are all Sophomore
attackmen who
alternate at the other 2 spots alongside Holt.
It is a
formidable attack
unit. Zach had 4 or 5 vs. Conn. College
when Holt
"dropped"
down to 2, so they will all complement each other well and pick up
the slack if
someone is not on.
The midfield is
very deep and athletic. The scoring
will be balanced in the
midfield. We are asking them to be athletes, extend on
defense, shut people
off and run the
field. No big guns necessarily, but
depth and balance. We
were able to get
Curt Goldman, one of our captains and starting midfielders
back for the Conn
game, but we missed him in the Gettysburg and Denison
games. Matt Dunn, Grayson Fertig and Scott Goldman
are also hockey playing
midfielders that
joined us for the Conn game, so we are at full strength.
Matt Dunn and Curt
were particularly impressive vs. Conn on two days of
practice.
Gettysburg was
disappointing. We were lethargic in the
first quarter and
were down 5-0
early in the second. We played with
more energy after that
and beat them 6-5
from that point on, but it was too little/too late. They
are #2 in the
country, so it is not a terrible loss, however we did not play
well at all, so it
was a disappointing effort.
The guys responded
well to the loss and played well against Conn.
They also
responded well to
the fact that we had two nice days on good fields on the
Thursday and
Friday before Conn, as opposed to one cold, windy practice on a
bad field and one
rained out practice before the Gettysburg game! It was
good to have the
practices on Thursday and Friday to get our grass legs and
pick up some
ground balls.
The defense looked
strong in all of the games. Most of the
goals were
scored versus our
man down or in unsettled situations. We
should be
difficult to score
against in 6 v. 6 situations with our goalie and defense.
Jed Raymond was
dominant playing both close defense and also playing some
long stick
midfielder. By the end of last year
teams would take the top
attackman and hide
him when Jed covered him. We are using
Jed in different
ways now to insure
he has a major impact on every game.
Sorry the notes
were not coherent. Lots of information
over the 3 games.
We play at
Springfield this Saturday at 1:00. Hope
you can make it!
Erin