ALFRED 13, Stevens 12
Freshman
Jake Lynch (Whitney Point, NY/Whitney Point) and senior
Nicolas Wood (Canandaigua, NY/Canandaigua) guided the Saxons (8-1, E8 2-1) to a 13-12 win over Stevens Institute of Technology.
Lynch led the Saxons in scoring with five goals, and one assist. Wood was close behind his fellow teammate with four goals in the game. Also scoring for the Saxons were
Tanner Morse (Corning, NY/Corning East), Matt Zandri (Baldwinsville, NY/Baldwinsville), and
Ben DeMarco (Jamestown, NY/Jamestown).
Sophomore
John Winchell (Vestal, NY/Vestal) set the standard in assists for AU, tallying four in the contest. Zandri provided two assists while Lynch and
Keenan Denis (Webster, NY/Webster Schroeder) had one helper each
.
To open the game, the teams looked to be sizing one another up, attempting to find weaknesses within their opponent's ranks. Nearly five minutes in, Lynch broke the silence, putting the Saxons up on the board, 1-0. Almost on cue, nearly five minutes later, sophomore
John Winchell (Vestal, NY/Vestal) found Lynch breaking toward the crease and fed him the ball. Lynch dashed and fooled the Ducks goalie and tallied his second goal of the day. To close out the first quarter, Stevens scored twice to lock the game at 2 goals each.
In the second quarter organized mayhem ensued, with the teams combining for eight goals. The Ducks were the first team on the board to grab their first lead of the day. However, the lead was short lived due to Zandri finding the net with 8:43 to go in the half. Wood followed Zandri's goal with a goal of his own only 12 seconds later on a pass sent in from sophomore Denis.
Wood showed off his athletic prowess in front of the net, spinning off a Ducks defender while ripping a shot from low to high, meeting the twine to grab the lead for the Saxons, 4-3.
Only two and half minutes later Stevens knotted the game again on a man-up goal. Nevertheless, Lynch found the back of the net a minute later to secure the lead. Stevens would answer Saxon one last time in the half before AU grabbed two quick goals before the teams headed off the field for half time. Following the first half of play, the Saxons held a 7-5 advantage.
In the second stanza the Ducks were the first to score, but AU rattled off three goals in a row and held Stevens scoreless the remainder of the third quarter.
To open the fourth, Stevens scored three goals before the Saxons to take away the momentum to bring the Ducks back into the game, only down 10-9. Finally, Morse rifled a shot past the Stevens goalie to break the Ducks' run.
With 2:57 left of the clock, Wood broke through the Stevens defense to attain his hat trick on the day and seemingly put the game out of reach. However, the Ducks refused to go away quietly; scoring two quick goals to bring the game back within one, 12-11. It was Wood again with a clutch goal, scoring for the Saxons to gain breathing room with 47 seconds to go in the game. Sixteen seconds later the Ducks answered AU's goal, but their efforts would prove to be futile as sophomore
Jimmy Pratti (Minisink, NY/Minisink Valley) won the final faceoff and the Saxons ran out the clock to victory, 13-12.
The win over Stevens marks the first time the Alfred University men's lacrosse team beat the Ducks since their entrance into the Empire 8 in 2007.
Pratti rattled off 12 groundballs in the affair to head the Saxons efforts. Denis collected six groundballs while freshman goalie
Drew Gardner(Whitney Point, NY/Whitney Point) and junior defender
Max Wilson (Menlo Park, CA/Menlo-Atherton) each managed five.
Gardner played 58:54 minutes of the game, taking a short breather following a kick-save. The freshman goalie amassed 13 saves on the afternoon. Senior
Tyler Beyor (Carthage, NY/Cartage) relieved Gardner, and faced no shots.
ST. JOHN FISHER 11, Hartwick 2
The St. John Fisher College men's lacrosse program earned its first Empire 8 Conference win of the season on Saturday, as the Cardinals came away with an 11-2 win over visiting Hartwick College at Fisher's Growney Stadium.
With the win, Fisher improves to 5-3 overall and 1-1 in the Empire 8, while Hartwick falls to 0-5, 0-2.
Fisher jumped out to a 5-0 lead after the opening quarter, scoring three goals in the final four minutes of the period to take command.
Matthew Condon scored a career-high five goals, including two in the first quarter, while sophomore goalie
Tanner Swan even got in on the action, going coast-to-coast to put Fisher up 3-0 with 3:46 left in the first.
Fisher led 6-2 at the half and quickly pushed its lead to 8-2 early in the third.
Dante Giordanoscored a man-up goal off a pass from
Matt Colicchia with 10:57 left in the third, and just 23 seconds later, Condon scored his fourth of the day.
Giordano finished the game with two goals, while
Gary Bova tallied one goal and one assist.
Joe Gaug and
Andrew Rosso also scored in the win.
Ricky Barton led his team with eight ground balls, while teammate
Ricky Hahn scooped up five.
Dan Hickey forced three turnovers, while
Paul Cefalu was solid at the X, winning 12-of-17 faceoffs.
Swan earned the win in goal, recording six saves over the game's first 52 minutes.
NAZARETH 26, Elmira 3
Host Nazareth dominated Elmira in every facet Saturday of an Empire 8 Conference men's lacrosse game. The Golden Flyers scored early and often and unleashed 62 shots in a 26-3 romp over the Soaring Eagles.
Nazareth won for the fifth straight time to improve to 7-2 overall and 2-0 in the Empire 8. Elmira dropped to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in conference games. Junior
Troy Haefele paced the attack with four goals and two assists and freshman also scored four times -- all in the second half.
Luke Longo added two goals and three assists.
Luke Wooters had a goal and three assists and Connor McKerscher had two goals and two assists.
Freshman
Cameron Fry had two goals, including the first of his career and freshman
Jonathan Olbrich also scored his first career goal.
Elmira scored the game's first goal as Nevin Olney scooped up a loose ball and scored unassisted. Longo tied the score just 22 seconds later and the Golden Flyers never trailed again.
Dan O'Brien and
Drew Simoneau then scored goals just 10 seconds apart to give Nazareth the lead for good.
Matt O'Neill scored with :18 left in the quarter to put Nazareth up 4-2.
Nazarreth scored seven more times in the second quarter to stretch the lead to 11-2. Haefele scored twice and sophomore
Joe Eiskant scored a man-up goal off a pass from Wooters. Longo, O'Brien and
Vincent Loscalzo also scored for Nazareth in the quarter.
Nazareth continued to pour it on in the second half by outscoring Elmira 13-1. Fry's first career goal came off an assist from Wooters just over three minutes into the third quarter. Haefele scored two more goals, his 18th and 19th of the season, and Walter,
Will Fallo and
Hunter Burdick also scored.
All of McKerscher's points came in the fourth quarter. Walter scored three times in the fourth, while Eiskant, Olbrich, Fry and
Jacob Gray also contributed tallies.
Simoneau had his usual dominating day in winning 16 of 18 face-offs with 13 ground balls. Freshman
Gavin Shanertook most of the second-half draws and won 13 of 14 with 10 ground balls. Nazareth had large advantages in shots (62-10), ground balls (55-24) and face-offs (30-3). Sophomore goalie
Michael Cuciti made one save and freshman
Rick Kronenwett had two.
ITHACA 9, Cabrini 8
he 14th-ranked Ithaca College men's lacrosse team scored the final three goals of the game in the final four minutes of the fourth quarter and rallied to defeat 11th-ranked Cabrini 9-8 on Saturday afternoon, March 28, at Higgins Stadium in Ithaca. The matchup of nationally-ranked teams was close throughout as neither team led by more than two goals over the course of the game.
It was a game of runs as Cabrini scored three-straight goals in the second quarter. Ithaca answered with four in a row over the second and third quarters, and Cabrini rattled off four more goals to build a fourth-quarter lead. Ithaca closed the contest with the decisive run and improved its record to 8-2 on the season. Cabrini is 5-5 on the year and four of its five losses have come against top-15 opposition.
Ithaca's game-deciding run started with a goal by
James Manilla assisted by
John Januszkiewicz with 3:14 to play. The ensuing faceoff was won by Ithaca's
Grant Osadchey. Ithaca quickly moved into the restraining area and
Justin Bird fed Januszkiewicz on the left side for a goal with 2:52 left to play that tied the score 8-8.
An offensive flurry for Ithaca forced a save and another shot hit the crossbar. Cabrini moved the ball upfield, but Ithaca forced a turnover and quickly transitioned to the attack end, where
Jack Shumway fed Manilla on the left side of the crease for the game-winning goal with 1:03 left in the fourth quarter.
Ithaca junior defender
Eli Gobrecht led the way for the Bombers with a shut-down performance. Gobrecht had eight caused turnovers and three ground balls on the afternoon, and helped Ithaca's transition attack with clearing passes and rushes throughout the game. Gobrecht spent a majority of the game defending two-time Cabrini All-American attack Damian Sobieski who had just one assist and three shots in the game.
On the final Cabrini possession of the game, Gobrecht shoved Sobieski out of bounds on the end line to cause another turnover and give Ithaca possession with less than 20 seconds remaining and the Bombers successfully ran the clock out. Cabrini had 24 turnovers in the game while Ithaca turned the ball over 11 times.
Ithaca outshot Cabrini 44-26 in the game. Ithaca goalkeeper
Scott Sidnam made nine saves and Cabrini goalkeeper Tyler Morrell made 15 saves, three of which came on close-range shots at the edge of the crease in the first half.
Cabrini scored the first goal of the game, but Ithaca answered with goals from
Steve Danylyshyn and
Kaelan Fitzpatrick to lead 2-1 after the first quarter.
The Cavaliers started the second quarter with three-straight goals to lead 4-2, but Ithaca got goals from Januszkiewicz and Osadchey to tie the score at halftime. Januszkiewicz scored twice early in the third quarter to give Ithaca a 6-4 advantage, but Cabrini scored four in row to set up the concluding run to close the game.
Januszkiewicz factored on six of the nine Ithaca goals with four goals and two assists. Manilla scored twice and Danylyshyn had the other goal for the Bombers. Shumway had two assists.
Jimmy Ryan led Ithaca with nine ground balls.
UTICA 16, Canton 3
The Utica College men's lacrosse team improved its record to 6-2 for the first time in program-history on Saturday as the Pioneers topped visiting SUNY Canton 16-3 in non-conference action on Breast Cancer Awareness Day at Charles A. Gaetano Stadium.
The Pioneers, who also won their fifth straight game for the first time in program-history, were led by a career-high four goals and one assist from sophomore
Matthew Miller(Geneva, NY/Geneva). Canton dropped its record to 0-6 on the season.
14 different players registered at least one point as the Pioneers earned their most lopsided victory of the season.
Alex Finnegan (Bay Shore, NY/Islip),
Ryan Desveaux (Bowmanville, ONT/St. Stephen Catholic)and
Zack Stevenson (Elbridge, NY/Jordan-Elbridge) each registered two goals while
Codey Staulters(Ballston Spa, NY/Ballston Spa),
Jeff Pierce (Clinton, NY/Clinton), and
Brickman House (Oneida, WI/Pulaski) added one goal and one assist a piece for the Pioneers.
Brickman House (Oneida, WI/Pulaski) caused a team-high four turnovers, while
Tom Byrne (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) added a team-best six ground balls to go along with three caused turnovers for the Pioneer defense. Senior
Andrew DiOrio (Greenlawn, NY/CW Post), sophomore
Parker Smith (Dexter, NY/General Brown) and sophomore
Kobi Johnson (Akwesasne/Salmon River ) combined for eight saves between the pipes for UC.
Patrick Dickson (West Palm Beach, FL/Cardinal Newman),
Mitch Sobilo (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg) and
Brandon Tracz (Oswego, NY/Oswego) each registered their first collegiate goal in the Pioneer victory.
Liam Wheatley (Rochester, NY/Webster Schroeder),
Patrick Mulligan (Commack, NY/Commack),
Sean Flanagan (Whitesboro, NY/Whitesboro), and
Nick Yelich (Lancaster, NY/Depew) all chipped in with one assist for Utica.
UC outshot the Kangaroos 55-20 on the afternoon and also earned a 41-23 advantage in the ground ball category. The stingy UC defense, which has allowed four goals or less in four of their last five games, caused 32 turnovers on the afternoon.
The Pioneers opened up an 8-0 lead in the first 30 minutes of action behind three goals from Miller, two goals from Stevenson and one each from Tracz, Desveauz and Finnegan. Stevenson now leads the team with 14 goals this season.
Utica did not slow down and netted the first four goals of the second half to take a 12-0 lead after three full quarters of action.
Canton was able to pick up three goals in the fourth quarter, two of which came from Ryan Cardiff, but the late offense was not enough to revive the Roos from their early deficit as the Pioneers earned the convincing 13 goal victory.
Canton goalie Corey Spuck led the visitors with 18 saves in between the pipes.
|
SCHOOL |
CONF |
OVERALL |
|
Ithaca |
3-0 |
8-2 |
|
Nazareth |
2-0 |
7-2 |
|
Utica |
1-0 |
6-2 |
|
Alfred |
2-1 |
8-1 |
|
St. John Fisher |
1-1 |
5-3 |
|
Elmira |
0-2 |
1-4 |
|
Hartwick |
0-2 |
0-4 |
|
Houghton |
0-2 |
1-6 |
|
Stevens |
0-1 |
4-5 |