Victories for Alfred and Stevens
STEVENS 13, Bowdoin 9
The Stevens Institute of Technology men's lacrosse team evened its record at 3-3 with a 13-9 win over Bowdoin College Wednesday evening at the Sportsplex in Virginia Beach.
The two teams played a 5-5 first half, with Bowdoin (1-4) closing the period on a 5-0 run. The Polar Bears were able to overtake the lead with the first two goals of the second half, but the Ducks kept their composure an answered with a 5-0 run of their own to take a 10-7 lead with 9:58 left in the game.
Junior attack
Andrew Scrutchfield tallied back-to-back goals just 10 seconds apart to pull the Ducks even at seven, the first one thanks to a gorgeous pass from sophomore midfielder
Connor Towne and the second coming from junior midfielder
Matt Ferentini. Scrutchfield was pushed to the ground scoring the first goal which led to the second goal being a man-up tally. Closing the third quarter was junior attack
Connor O'Shea who tallied unassisted to send the Ducks into the final '15' with a lead they would never relinquish.
Scrutchfield scored two more – the first coming from senior midfielder
Michael Maroon – to open the fourth and essentially put the game away with a shade under 10 minutes left. Bowdoin was able to fight within two (10-8), but another run from the Ducks – this one 3-0 – resulted in a 13-8 advantage with 2:00 on the clock.
Maroon started the run, sophomore midfielder Conor McKeon followed on the back of a helper from Ferentini, and junior midfielder
Michael Serrante closed the scoring for Stevens unassisted. The Ferentini-to-McKeon hookup was picture-perfect as Ferentini hit a cutting McKeon in stride before the sophomore went behind the back to create the angle he needed for the goal.
Stevens dominated the first quarter, taking a 5-0 lead 10:55 into the game with five different players scoring goals. Sophomore midfielder
Connor McKeon started the scoring with 11:07 left in the first, with senior midfielder
Michael Maroon finding the back of the net on a gorgeous shot inside the lower-right-corner of the cage from the right wing to put the Ducks up 2-0.
Ferentini followed with a laser, and Towne made it a 4-0 thanks to a feed from Ferentini. The first of Scrutchfield's five markers came at the 4:05 mark of the first to put the Ducks on top by five.
Bowdoin flipped the momentum later in the first, eventually tying the score before the break.
Scrutchfield led the Ducks with five goals on nine shots, with Maroon and McKeon notching two each. Ferentini led the Ducks with three assists, with McKeon and sophomore midfielder
Jake Krantz each causing a pair of turnovers.
Junior goalie
Austin Boyd made 11 saves to earn the win in goal for Stevens, adding three ground balls to his line. Junior
Brett Incollingo won 11-of-20 faceoffs, scooping up a team-high six ground balls. O'Shea, sophomore defenseman
Chris Contino, Scrutchfield, Krantz, junior midfielder
Colin Sawula and McKeon all scooped up multiple ground balls.
Bowdoin was led by senior goalie Peter Mumford who made 16 saves and sophomore midfielder Shawn Daly who notched two goals.
The Ducks ended with a 41-33 margin in shots – putting 29 goal, while also leading 31-28 in ground balls. Bowdoin won 14-of-25 faceoffs, but went just 1-for-8 on man-up chances. The Ducks converted three of their eight man-up opportunities.
ALFRED 18, SUNYIT 2
Alfred University men's lacross (6-0, 1-0) maintained their undefeated streak to open the 2015 season with an 18-2 win over the SUNY Polytechnic Wildcats at Yunevich Stadium.
AU was paced by senior attack
Nicolas Wood with six goals and an assist. Freshman attack
Jake Lynch continued his hot streak, adding onto his six goals from yesterday, with a hat trick against SUNY IT. Sophomore
John Winchell and junior
Tanner Morse both added two goals each.
Winchell paced the distribution of the ball for the Saxons with three assists, totaling 11 assists in two games for the attack player. Morse added two assists to his season total as well.
The Saxons did not waste any time jumping out in front of the Wildcats, scoring 44 seconds into the opening faceoff when
Tanner Morse burst into the box to beat the SUNY IT goalie. He would soon add another goal, putting AU up, 2-0. Following the first quarter the Saxons were leading 3-0.
In the second quarter AU went on a tear, sniping eight goals and keeping the Wildcats off the board. Winchell, Lynch, and Wood were the major contributors, putting two goals in each. Heading into the half, the Saxons were up, 11-0.
Coming out of the intermission, Wood scored three more goals in the third quarter alone. Other goal scorers in the quarter were sophomore middy
Keenan Denis and junior midfielder
Nolan Jessop. Midway through the third quarter the Wildcats scored their first goal of the game when Neil Nembhard snuck a shot past the Saxon goalie.
The fourth quarter saw relatively little action, with AU outscoring the Wildcats 2-1, with each team netting a man-up goal. As the final horn rang, the Saxons were on top, 18-2.
Sophomore
Jimmy Pratti won 19-22 faceoffs for the Saxons and grabbed 11 groundballs. Wood nabbed five groundballs while junior defender
Max Wilson and Winchell both accumulated four groundballs.
For the second game in row, all five Saxons goalies played, with
Drew Gardner playing half the game. Gardner had three saves on three shots faced. Senior goalie
Tyler Beyor played nearly 15 minutes and had one save and one goal against.
RIT 18, ST. JOHN FISHER 4
The St. John Fisher College men's lacrosse program suffered an 18-4 loss on Wednesday at Rochester Institute of Technology, currently ranked second in the latest national coaches poll.
With the loss, Fisher falls to 3-2, while the Tigers improve to 5-0.
Fisher trailed 3-0, but got on the board as sophomore
Matt Colicchia scored midway through the first quarter.
The Cardinals would trail 5-1 after one, but made it a three-goal game early in the second quarter with
Matthew Condon scoring off a pass from
Nick Rossi.
The Tigers led 9-2 at the half. Fisher stayed with RIT early on in the second half, as
Gary Bovascored back-to-back for the Cardinals, making it 11-4 with just over seven minutes left in the third.
Sophomore goalie
Tanner Swann made a career-high 16 saves. Zackery Bussey led Fisher with four ground balls, while
Kevin O'Donnell was 7-for-12 at faceoffs.
Brockport 16, ELMIRA 1
The Elmira College men's lacrosse team (1-2) fell 16-1 to the College of Brockport (2-4) today.
Anthony LaRusso '17 scored EC's lone goal while
Wyatt Katsos '17 made 18 saves in the net for the Soaring Eagles.
The Golden Eagles scored the game's first four goals in the first quarter to take a 4-0 lead. As no goals were scored in the second quarter, Brockport's 4-0 lead would hold heading into the locker room for halftime.
Brockport scored four more goals in the third period before LaRusso would receive a pass from
TJ Leach '16 and scored to trail the Golden Eagles, 8-1. Brockport's offense proved too strong for EC as the Golden Eagles would close the game off with eight more goals to win, 16-1.
Cameron Prior '17 replaced Katsos in the net with a little under five minutes remaining in the game.