Pictured Above: Junior faceoff specialist/midfielder
Nick Warren
(photo by Bob Park)
Box Score
Staten Island, NY – The Wagner men's lacrosse team stormed back from a 7-4 third-quarter deficit with four unanswered goals in taking an 8-7 lead early fourth-quarter lead but Mount St. Mary's was able to pull away in the end, earning a hard-fought 12-8 win at Hameline Field on Saturday.
With the loss, the Seahawks fall to 2-10 on the season and 0-4 in Northeast Conference (NEC) play, while the Mountaineers pick up their fifth straight win in improving 8-5 overall and 4-0 in league play.
With 6:49 left in the third quarter, the Mount's Brenden McCarthy scored off a Jack Mangan feed to give MSM that 7-4 lead. Just over one minute later, the Green & White scored their first of what would become a 4-0 run, bridging the third and fourth quarters.
Senior attackman
John Norton got the momentum going the Seahawks' way, notching consecutive goals within a 35-second span, which came on assists from senior attackman
Kevin Gray and freshman attackman
Stephen Dwyer, respectively. Norton's two-goal explosion made it a 7-6 game with 5:00 left in the third.
Senior
Tyler Grady then buried a 20-yard, unassisted blast with 4:02 remaining in the third quarter to forge a 7-7 tie heading to the fourth.
Senior midfielder
Spencer Kaufman completed the four-goal run with a score at the 12:37 mark off another Dwyer assist, to give Wagner an 8-7 lead.
The Mount, however, regained the lead on scores from McCarthy and Luke Frankeny, in taking the lead for good at 9-8 with 9:16 left. The Mountaineers would tack on three additional goals in fashioning the 12-8 win.
Norton and junior attackman
Nic Ancona were the Seahawks' leading goal-scorers with two goals apiece, while Gray (1g, 1a) and Grady (1g, 1a) also contributed two points each. Dwyer wound up with a team-high three points (1g, 2a), while junior attackman
Dylan Kaminski was the seventh Seahawk to hit the scoring column, finishing with one assist.
McCarthy paced the Mountaineers offensively with a hat trick while Joe Bethke and Frankeny added two goals apiece.
Statistically, Wagner held the edge in shots (42-32), ground balls (33-19) and faceoffs (15-11), with all 15 wins in the X coming from junior
Nick Warren. In addition to winning 15-of-24 faceoffs, the Granby, CT native, who actually began his collegiate career at Mount St. Mary's before transferring to Wagner, bulled his way to a team-high five ground balls.
In goal, senior
Matt Sefcik came up with 11 saves while his counterpart, Dylan Furnback turned away 14 Seahawk shots.
A key to the victory was the Mount's ability to take advantage of Wagner penalties as MSM was 4-of-5 on extra-man opportunities while the Seahawks were 0-of-3 on EMOs.
The Seahawks are next in action on Saturday, April 20 when they travel to Philadelphia to meet the Saint Joseph's Hawks in a 1:00 p.m. start, before the 2019 season concludes with a Senior Day matchup against Sacred Heart on Saturday, April 27.
