NESCAC Player of the Week
CK Giancola – Wesleyan – Sr. – M – Canton, Conn.
Giancola matched his career high with seven points (4 goals, 3 assists) in a season-opening 20-11 road win at Colby on Saturday. Giancola scored consecutive goals to start the second half where the Cardinals outscored the Mules 13-4 to break open a game that stood tied 7-7 at halftime. Giancola’s 12 shots tied a career-high while he added three ground balls on Saturday. The senior midfielder also hit the 100-career point mark in the win, becoming the 38th player in team history to reach the milestone. 
 
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Junior Nicholas Kopp (Damascus, Md.) won 21 of 31 faceoffs on Saturday and led the Mammoths with 11 groundballs.

Bates – Gray Doyle (Summit, N.J.) impressed in his first three games of collegiate lacrosse, tallying a NESCAC-leading 15 points. Doyle scored six goals and dished out nine assists for the Bobcats. The newcomer also recorded 12 ground balls. Nine of the 15 points came in a thrilling 16-15 overtime win for Bates over Emerson to start the season.

Bowdoin - Goaltender Robert Hobbs (Wayne, Pa.) made 14 saves, leading a Polar Bear defense that allowed just six goals in a season-opening NESCAC win against Trinity on Saturday. Hobbs made 10 saves during a 28:32 scoreless stretch between the second and fourth quarters as the Polar Bears went on a key 8-0 run to seal the victory. 

Colby – Bennett Goller (Napa, Calif.) opened the season with two goals and an assist in a setback against Wesleyan. The junior's tallies in the second quarter bookended a 4-0 Colby run that tied the game at 7-7 heading into the halftime break.  

Conn. College – Aidan McAvoy (Charlotte, N.C.) led the Camels with two goals and a pair of assists in the season opener at Tufts last week. The junior netted a goal in each half and dished out both helpers in the second half while also picking up a caused turnover and three ground balls.

Hamilton - Will Heher (Essex, Conn.) scored a career-high six goals on eight shots and scooped up three ground balls in a 21-8 win against Bates – the lone game of the week for the Continentals. Heher's first goal came with 34 seconds left in the first quarter and the junior's fifth goal made it 14-2 just 27 seconds into the third quarter. Hamilton scored the most goals in a game since 2010.

Middlebury - Russell Thorndike (Brookline, Mass.) paced the Panthers in their season-opening 17-11 win over NESCAC foe Amherst. The junior led the squad, finding the back of the net four times while also recording an assist.

Trinity – Senior Andrew Bailey (Madison, N.J.) logged a pair of goals for the Bantams in Trinity’s 13-6 loss at Bowdoin in the season opener.

Tufts - Junior Max Ettinghausen (Rochester, N.Y.) had a banner game in the season opener for the Jumbos, as the lefty attack finished with a team-high six points on five goals and an assist, also tallying five ground balls, 10 shots, and a caused turnover. 

Williams – Senior Calvin Caputo (Pennington, N.J.) posted career-highs of eight goals and eight points in a 14-13 triumph over Babson in the Ephs' season-opener on Saturday at Farley-Lamb. The eight goals and eight points led all players in the game. Caputo scored five goals in the first quarter.