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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5339672, member: 4819"] The Orange suit up for their second game in less than a week as they welcome the Catamounts from Vermont. The visitors return quite a few high impact players from last year, but the Orange are favored by a lot of goals for a reason. I'll try and keep this shorter than normal, Jeremey pretty much summed this matchup pretty succinctly a few days ago, but I am nothing if not a creature of habit. So here's a bit of a deeper dive. I think the biggest returning player Vermont welcomes back is junior Henry Dodge, their FOGO. Dodge was a former Top 100 recruit, and he had a 58% winning percentage last year with over 100 groundballs. He's a big kid at 6'3 200. He did finish just 9-23 last year against the Orange (John Mullen was 5-7). Still, I believe that was Dodge's first game taking over as the main FOGO for Vermont. I think this is the main matchup to watch. Other than that, The Catamounts bring back their leading scorer Charlie Pope, who scored 42 goals last year as a midfielder. Curious with Mikey Weihasser on tap, if the Orange keep Caccamo on the main midfield threat this week. Perhaps they bump Mike Grace up if Caccamo struggles? Pope finished last year's game with a goal and an assist. If he is moved to attack I'm guessing Figuerias will draw him. Vermont loses their second leading scorer from last year in Brock Haley, but brings back their next three leading scorers, all of whom were either freshmen or sophomores last year. Vermont does lose their goalie from last year. I couldn't find much about their scrimmages this offseason, but it looks like they tied Hobart at 10 earlier this spring. That might be a bit misleading as I think they were up 4-1 at the end of the first quarter. Not sure how much to take from that, but I don't think Hobart will be very good this year. The spread for this game is 13, which was the winning margin SU had last year against the Catamounts. Only thing is Syracuse has a quick turnaround against a good Towson team on Monday, which might mean they empty the bench quicker than normal. I think this might be closer to a 10 goal victory for the Orange. From a Syracuse perspective, obviously it's nice to see what the lineup looks like after the first game. I'm guessing they keep with running three lines of midfielders for this game, and curious if they decide to mix and match the lines at all. Big question will be to see if they do it against Towson. Will probably come down to possessions. But I am getting ahead of myself here. Go Orange! [/QUOTE]

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