Riding their momentum from their well-earned 4-1 victory against Trinity Pawling, the Kent varsity soccer team set out to defend their home turf against Hotchkiss on November, 6th 2016.

The first quarter of the game was an uneventful back and forth with both teams testing the waters and neither willing to stretch them too thin. But in the 28th minute, Abdi Shariff-Hassan ’17 cracked the Hotchkiss defense with a goal to put the Kent boys in the lead 1-0. With a newfound drive from their goal, the Kent home team battered down on the Hotchkiss defense to try and extend their lead. But to the Hotchkiss team’s relief and the Kent team’s chagrin, the Hotchkiss defense were able to shut down all of Kent’s attempts and close out the half only a goal behind.  

The Kent team may have been laying the pressure on Hotchkiss in the first half. But in the second, the Hotchkiss team returned to the field with their second wind and forced the home team onto their heels. Thanks to the herculean effort of the Kent team’s defense and goalie, CJ Brito Trinidad ’19, the boys were able to hold on to their precarious lead for the third quarter. However, with enough shots on goal, Hotchkiss was able to tie the game up as the game entered its last leg.

Hotchkiss, reinvigorated by their goal, seemed to then find their third and fourth wind as they came down hard onto the Kent home field. And as the Hotchkiss team found another goal, the Kent team only seemed to get more and more demoralized. In the end, the game ended 1-3 in Hotchkiss’s favor. Despite their loss, the Kent boys can find solace in the fact that they played an incredible defense against the tenacious Hotchkiss team.