With Saturday's score tied at halftime, #10 Trinity tallied the opening four goals of the second stanza en route to a 13-9 NESCAC victory Saturday over second-ranked Middlebury on Kohn Field. The Panthers (10-1, 6-1) return to action on Sunday when they host Hamilton at 2:00 in a makeup game originally scheduled for April 6, while the Bantams visit the Continentals next Saturday at noon.

In a back-and-forth opening half which neither team held greater than a two-goal advantage, Middlebury got on the board first 21 seconds into action when Laurel Pascal scored on a pass from behind the net by Alli Sciarretta. Nearly three minutes later, Trinity scored twice just 16 seconds apart when Kiley Coffey scored on an extra-player opportunity with an upper-corner shot at 26:53 and Karly Simpson bounced an attempt in from six yards out.

Middlebury's Bridget Instrum recorded the next two goals giving the hosts a 3-2 advantage. The first score came on a quick-stick shot at 25:49 via a pass from Sciarretta, followed by an unassisted tally 1:33 later when she sprinted around the crease and fired a goal into the upper-right corner.  

The teams traded the game's next four goals, all coming on free-position attempts, with scores by Mary O'Connell and Sciarretta for the Panthers, while Martha Griffin and Coffey found the back of the net for Trinity.

With Middlebury in front 5-4 at the 14:32 mark, the visitors reeled off three-straight goals with a pair from Clare Lyne, and the final coming on a player-down opportunity when Abby McInerney bounced a shot past Middlebury goalie Katie Mandigo.

Trailing by a pair, the Panthers closed the half with goals by Megan Griffin on a shot from the left side five yards out, and a stick-to-stick pass from Hollis Perticone to Pascal for her second of the game with 2:57 remaining as the teams went into the break tied at 7-7.

Out of the intermission, the Bantams put together the decisive four-goal run over a span of nearly five minutes. Coffey scored her third of the game to start the spurt on a free-position shot that found the bottom of the net at 27:38, while Griffin, Simpson and Lane each scored for an 11-7 lead with 22:43 left to play.

Instrum cut the Panther deficit to three with 20:50 on the clock on a stutter-step move, finishing into the bottom-left corner of the goal. Lyne responded for the Bantams a little more than five minutes later with her fourth of the game and 35th of the spring when she picked up a ground ball in front of the Panther crease and put home the shot.

Trailing by four (12-8), Instrum again brought Middlebury to within three on a free-position score for her fourth of the game and 31st of the season with 13:35 left. The Panthers were unable to get pull any closer, as Coffey added an empty-net goal with less than a minute to go for the final score.

Instrum led the Panthers with four goals, while Pascal finished with two scores and a team-best six ground balls. Sciarretta added a goal and two assists, while Perticone and Chrissy Ritter each had three caused turnovers for the hosts.

Coffey and Lyne paced the Bantams with five points on four goals and an assist apiece, while Griffin tacked on two goals and had two helpers. Lyne concluded the contest with a team-high four draw controls.

Mandigo (2-1) took the loss in the crease for the Panthers, tallying five saves in 59:07 of action. Zoe Ferguson produced nine saves in the opening stanza for Trinity, while Emily Mooney grabbed the win (4-1), logging the final 30 minutes with three stops.