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FieLl Hockey The 2002 season was filled with hard work and aspirations to qualify for the Centennial Conference playoffs. We tied last year's record of best start 10 a season with eight wins and no losses. Our first fall came 10Swarthmore. but there were only three more after that, including one in the second round of Centennial Playoffs. The team worked hard to acheive the success that they had. We hoped to make rhc Ccnrennial playoffs, never realizing that we would host and win them. In the first round, we defeated Franklin and Marshall College, who only allowed us to score one goal. We then faced John Hopkins University, whom we had lost to in the regularseason. This lime we WOIlwith a 1-0 victory over the Blue Jays. With that win and the conference title, we went on to NCAAs and a home field advantage for the first round. We stayed undeafted on the home field, beating The College of Notre Dame 6-0. This sent us 10 New Jersey to face the number one team in the nation, Rowan University. McDaniel fought hard through field conditions and weather, but that day was just not ours. That was our last game of the season, but we walked off the field with pride. A 19-4 season and the schools first ever Conference Championship and NCAA bid