Last Tuesday, varsity field hockey’s impressive season came to an end when they lost 2-1 to Villa in the elite eight rounds of the state quarterfinals.

Villa scored in the first half, but MHS tied the game up with a goal in the last twenty minutes. Villa scored the game winning goal with eight minutes left in the game.

“We were really pumped up but then we lost momentum and they scored,” Emily Funke, junior, said.

Despite, the loss, Coach Nina Walters said the team played really well.

One of the factors in the game was the field, which was bigger than the girls were used to playing on, but they didn’t let that faze them, Walters said.

“They never gave up,” Walters said.

Funke said the team had a good game, but didn’t keep their intensity up through the end.

“We didn’t want it bad enough,” Funke said.

Overall the team had a good season, despite a rough patch towards the end, Jesse Dunlap, team captain, said.

“We got so used to winning that maybe it didn’t become as special as it was in the beginning,” Dunlap said. “We lost to teams we probably should have beat so I think we lowered our level of play when we played them.”

Defense is one of the team’s strengths, but they need to work on finishing, Walters said.

“We do a lot of hard work to get up the field and then we just have trouble capitalizing at the end,” Walters said.