We were treated to a smorgasbord of television games, rivalry games and contests that had league-standing significance.
The ACC Thursday Night Thriller remains undefeated. Navy earned the Star in front of 5,000 fans in Annapolis. UMBC keeps winning overtime games. Otto bounced back in Charlottesville. The Drexel Dragons and Saint Joe’s Hawks have momentum in late April.
For some, this week is the last of the regular season. For others it s the chance to play for a conference automatic qualifier where every game has Game 7’ intensity and ramifications. Right now, there are roughly 45 teams in the hunt for the NCAA Tournament.
Joe Amplo said that, around last Friday, things just started to feel
different. That’s what happens in Annapolis when the Army-Navy Game approaches.
“I can feel what you guys have been telling me. This one’s going to be different,” Amplo recalls saying to Mark Goers and Kirk Woolfolk, longtime fixtures around the coaching and athletics staff at Navy.
“You drive in the gates on the Yard, every human being that’s inside these gates, they want to beat Army. It doesn’t matter what their role is, they want to beat Army. You can be playing in the national championship game and not everyone in the gates knows who you’re playing and when you’re playing. Everybody knows who Army is, and every single human being wants to beat Army,” said Amplo, who will be coaching in the game for the first time.
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Spencer Rees’ heart sank a little after he let go of the lob pass a couple steps over midfield.
He thought it was a bad toss, but you’d never know by his expression. He watched the ball sail into the far corner of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, miss the outstretched arms of a leaping Bucknell defenseman and fall into the waiting stick of Christian Daniel. The senior attackman and co-captain then scored his second goal of the afternoon in transition to punctuate a five-goal third quarter run and extend Navy’s lead.
The Midshipmen hung on to defeat Bucknell 13-10 this past Sunday and improve to 3-0.
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The second season under Joe Amplo has gotten off to a solid start for the Navy Midshipmen, as thet took down Jacksonville 13-6 on Sunday afternoon to move to 2-0 on the season.
After seeing Jacksonvilel end the first quarter with a three-goal run from Luke Robinson, Matt Stagnitta, and Brendan McKenna to put them up 4-1 heading into the second and a Jack Dolan goal putting them up 5-2 midway through the second quarter, the Midshipmen kicked it into a different gear.
From the 2:34 mark in the second through the 6:02 mark in the third, Navy not only got hot on the offensive end but clamped down on defense. The Midshipmen rattled off nine straight goals, including two from James Flannery to get ahead 11-5 heading into the final quarter of play. Troy Hettinger ended the dry spell for Jacksonville with their only second-half goal early in the fourth.
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