Great game by the Orange and encouraged by a lot of performances. Porter was obviously great, made some very nice saves and looked cool, calm and collected throughout the game. Tremendous bounce back performance. Rhefuss looked like his old self, aggressively dodging and finding open teammates. His body language looked much better, hopefully this will be a turning point for him. Also important to see Buttermore get back on track, I think having a fourth midfielder providing scoring punch is extremely important this season, he really is fearless when he is shooting. Phaup just seems to get better as the game goes along, what a tough player he is.
Defense looked very active and aggressive, could have picked up a few more groundballs in the first half but overall thought they looked very good. Did anyone notice who went in on D when the benches emptied? I think Mellen stayed on and I saw Barlow with a longstick, just trying to keep track of who might have burned a redshirt.
Nice to see the youngsters score, very encouraged by the freshmen midfielders, hope they make a big impact next season.