Late Run too Much for Bants

Despite a terrible weather report, the sun was out and the temperature was high for our game against Midd. It was a perfect day to be playing lacrosse - what we dream about in February during the long cold practices. The level of play lived up to the perfect weather, making it quite an exciting day of lacrosse. When all was said and done, Middlebury barely out did us, tacking on several late goals to take the game, with a final score of 13-11.

Our Bants came out ready to play - they were hungry to take down the Panthers who sit atop the conference standings. We did everything we could to put ourselves in a position to win the game. We responded right away after Midd scored the first game, with Caite Irvine connecting on an unassisted goal. Caite would have her way with the Panther defense all day - notching five goals and even drawing a stick check from a nervous Middlebury coaching staff.

Midd went on a small run before we really kicked things into gear. We scored four straight goals, all from different people to take a 5-3 lead. Remer was stellar in the midfield making great receptions and keeping the pressure on the Middlebury defense. Midd made a few adjustments and was able to even things up at 5-5. Caite Irvine continued to push things offensively and found the net late, on a low angle free position, giving us a halftime lead of 6-5.

The second half started off great - we continued to roll on offense extending our lead early
with three more scores in the first 10 minutes of the half. We took a commanding 9-5 lead before Middlebury finally responded with a goal of their own. We would extend the lead once more off of another Caite Irvine free position making it 10-6.

From that point on it was all Middlebury. Our Bants fought hard on defense but couldn't stop a Middlebury offense that was determined to score. Midd scored seven of the last eight goals of the game, taking the lead with just under 7 minutes to play. Our Bants, tried and tried, but could not win possession of the ball and never really had a shot to even things up.

Mish was great in goal all game long - coming up with an amazing 21 saves. While we are disappointed with the outcome, we played a very good game and are confident entering the last leg of our conference schedule. We start things off tomorrow, traveling to Wesleyan for a 6pm game. Go Bants!