I guess we shouldn't be surprised, they played just like the reports from the scrimmages said. Sloppy offense that has poor choices on shot selection, placement, and timing. A defense that continues to struggle with communication and sliding, even though most of these guys have been in the system for three/four years. There were some good 1v1 match-ups that each guy held their ground but overall just wasn't in sync. Porter did a good job, a couple soft ones in but kept it from being a blow out that it probably should have been.
Phaup was a bright spot (8-13) even if they turned it over after winning the draw, but Desko/Donahue keep making poor decisions with FOGOs. Varello may have improved his game over the summer but he didn't have it against Feeney.
That first half where making a hit was more important than the ground ball hurts. They go after those balls like they did in the second half and maybe it a close win but a win at least.
I like what I see from Cook but it clearly shows he needs to adjust to the college level. He probably could have scored on that one possession I think it was in the second quarter. Dodging from behind the cage and he had the defender beat but decided to stop and then proceeded to roll right back into the defense.
Same old with Trimboli, shooting high to high. He might have caught goalies off guard his freshman year but not anymore two years later. Same could be said for Solomon, some nice moves but some awful decisions like dodging into three defenders especially with the flag down and just wildly shooting towards the cage. Quinn with a bad showing even though he got high praise during the off season/scrimmages. Bad showing by Rehfuss, hopefully we can just chalk it up to being not 100% from what kept him out last week. Not sold on Voigt being the third attackman though no one really had a great game on offense aside from maybe Curry.
Yeah it's only the first game but I still don't have a warm fuzzy feeling.