After a 24
hour delay, we were finally able to get in our game against the
Connecticut College Camels yesterday. The grounds crew had plowed the 12
inches of snow off of the field on Saturday and were
out sweeping it at 5AM on Sunday in order to start the game on time. We're fortunate to have such a dedicated crew that consisted
of some other coaches and department staff who pitched in. At game
time there were flurries in the air, the temperature was hovering in the mid
20's and a stiff wind blowing on Kohn Field.
As predicted and to their
credit, the Camels came to play yesterday and showed great emotion throughout
the day. They would end up scoring the first goal of the game on man up
and 4 of the first five, at one point leading
4-1. Our guys started the game off a bit
tentative and certainly didn't come out with the same enthusiasm as
the
The story of the day for us
was our dominance at the face of x (well now it's
actually a 4x4 inch square) where we went 21-23. Both Peter Mellen and Dave Campbell (the player) were excellent at
controlling the draws and giving us critical possessions. That was the
case when we scored 6 consecutive goals in the 2nd and
3rd quarter to take a 7-4 lead.
Our starting attack unit of
Jim Cabrera, Tom Petty and Nick Bastis had a great
day shooting the ball. Jim ended up going 3,1
and gave us a much needed spark on offense. Tom Petty had a few
spectacular goals driving from behind the cage and finished his scoring
with our 9th goal of the day which broke an 8-8
tie in the 4th quarter. On this particular goal
Tom was our point attackman on the fast break, he
took the feed from Conor Lyons and stuck a shot
in the upper corner against the
Alex Palmisano
had a good day in the goal for us and had a few critical saves in the second
half as
Again, to their credit the
As for the Panthers, we
showed a lot of poise by answering
We'll get back to work tomorrow in preparation for