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Staten Island, NY – The Wagner men's lacrosse team received three-goal, two-assist performances from freshmen JP Pawela (Montgomery Village, MD/St. John's College)
and Andrew Streilein (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape) but Dartmouth was able to overcome an early 6-2 goal deficit in registering an 11-10 victory in an exciting, evenly matched
contest that featured four ties and three lead changes at chilly Hameline Field this afternoon.

In posting their first win of the season, the Big Green is now 1-3 on the season while Wagner falls to 1-4.

For Pawela, a talented midfielder, the three goals, two assists and five points are all career highs. For Streilien, a skilled attackman from South Jersey who, 
earned Northeast Conference (NEC) Rookie of the Week honors on Monday, the three goals are also a career high while the five points match a career high
that he set on February 24 at Rutgers.

With the game tied at 1-1, the Seahawks went on a 3-0 run on a Streilein goal that was sandwiched between a pair of Pawela tallies that gave Wagner a 4-1 lead 
midway through the first quarter. After Dartmouth's Cam Lee made it a 4-2 game, junior midfielder Paul DeVita found pay dirt off of a feed from Streilein, which extended
 the Seahawk lead to 5-2 after one quarter.

Redshirt-sophomore Patrick McMenamin (Longport, NJ/St. Augustine Prep), who was moved from midfield to attack, then gave Wagner its biggest lead of the game at 
6-2 with 13:09 to go before halftime off another Streilein assist. Dartmouth then closed the half with three unanswered goals, two coming from Jack Korzelius, in closing 
the deficit to 6-5 at the intermission. 

Korzelius scored the first goal of the second half, off of a Wiley Osborne assist, to tie the game at 6-6. Wagner regained the momentum with a pair of Streilein goals, 
the first of which came off of a Pawela assist, and then second, an unassisted tally at the 4:26 mark of the third quarter, that put Wagner on top by an 8-6 margin.

After Korzelius again made it a one-goal game at 8-7 with 1:02 left in the third quarter, the Big Green opened the fourth quarter with three consecutive goals. A KC 
Beard goal at 12:38 knotted the game at 8-8, before Billy Heidit put Dartmouth ahead 9-8 at the 11:22 mark, which was followed by a Jake Weil goal that made it 
10-8 with 10:23 remaining.

Undaunted, the Seahawks fought back. With 8:52 left, Pawela found fellow freshman midfielder Billy Orme (Great Falls, VA/Langley), who buried a 10-yard dart to 
make it 10-9. Just 52 seconds later, Pawela knocked home an unassisted goal that tied the game at 10-10 with 8:00 left.

That's the way things stood until Osborne cashed in an unassisted goal with 4:53 remaining,  putting the Big Green Green in front, 11-10, and the Dartmouth defense
held on from there.

Korzelius finished with a game-high four goals for the Big Green while Beard added two goals and an assist. In addition to the hat tricks turned in by Pawela and 
Streilein, DeVita wound up with two goals, while Orme and Patrick McMenamin finished with one goal apiece. Wagner's top playmaker on the afternoon was junior
 attackman Billy Battaglia (Madison, NJ/Madison), who dished out a game-high three assists.

In goal, junior Anthony Peruso (Warwick, NY/John S. Burke Catholic), who was coming off a career-high 15-save outing at Monmouth on Tuesday, came up with
four saves on the afternoon. The winning goalie was Dartmouth's Colin Heffernan who came on at the outset of the second half in place of starter Blair Friedensohn. 

Statistically, shots were dead even at 29-29. Dartmouth held a 21-16 edge in ground balls while winning 14-of-25 faceoffs and the Big Green were 1-of-3 on 
extra-man opportunities while the Seahawks were 2-of-5 on EMO's.

Following a 10-day break, the Seahawks are next in action on Wednesday, March 17 when they play host to the VMI Keydets with faceoff set for 3:00 p.m.

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