Pictured Above: Senior attackman
John Norton
Box Score
Moon Township, PA – The Wagner men's lacrosse team battled to a 2-2 stalemate after one quarter at Robert Morris, and trailed by just a 6-5 halftime count, before the Colonials erupted for eight unanswered goals in the third quarter en route to posting a 17-6 win on Saturday afternoon.
With the loss, the Sehawks fall to 2-9 on the season and 0-3 in Northeast Conference (NEC) play, while the league champions improved to 3-7 overall, while evening their conference mark at 2-2.
After falling behind 2-0 early, the Green & White rallied with two straight goals from senior attackman
John Norton. The first of Norton's back-to-back tallies came with 5:28 left in the first quarter and it came off a feed from junior attackman
Nic Ancona. The Seahawks then knotted the score at 2-2 on Norton's second goal, this one a blast from 25 yards out off an assist from sophomore midfielder
Tyler Grady which closed the first-quarter scoring at the 1:35 mark.
With the Seahawks down by a 5-3 count midway through the second quarter, after the Seahawks' third goal came on a man-up score by Ancona off a feed from freshman midfielder
Stephen Dwyer, Wagner closed the half with a 2-1 burst to make it a 6-5 game at the break.
Wagner's fourth goal, which made it a 5-4 game, came on junior attackman
Dylan Kaminski's first tally of the season, an unassisted effort with 7:27 left. After RMU's Jake Boudreau again made it a two-score game, at 6-4 with 5:49 remaining, senior midfielder
Spencer Kaufman beat his man along the left side before burying his 16
th goal of the season, drawing Wagner to within that one-goal deficit at the intermission.
After the Colonials' 8-0 third-quarter surge put the game out of each, the Seahawks' final score of the game came with 12:49 left when junior midfielder
Richard McKenna scored from in close off a pretty feed from freshman midfielder
Jack Brady.
Statistically, RMU held the advantage in shots (58-35) and ground balls (35-29), while faceoffs were nearly even as the Colonials held a slight 14-13 edge in the circle, with midfielder
Nick Warren handling all 27 faceoffs. The junior also paced the Seahawks in groundballs with eight.
Wagner, however, was unable to overcome 20 turnovers that were committed on the afternoon while RMU turned it over just eight times.
Wagner is next in action on Saturday, April 13 when the Seahawks return home to the friendly confines of Hameline Field for a 1:00 p.m. faceoff with the Mountaineers.
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