Emmitsburg, MD – The Wagner men's lacrosse program wrapped the 2021 season with a 20-6 loss to the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers Friday morning from Waldron Family Stadium.
Junior
Stephen Dwyer and graduate student
Tim Schmidt each had three points to lead Wagner; Dwyer finished with two goals, Schmidt finished with two assists. The Seahawks also got a goal apiece from graduate student
Philip Buque, senior
Dan Baker, and junior
Jack Brady.
Sophomore
Brendan Higgins and junior
Matt Rueter both had a team-best four ground balls; Rueter finished 5-for-9 at the face-off X. Freshman
Daren Mayer finished with three ground balls and a caused turnover and graduate student
Connor Sweeney scooped two ground balls and caused a turnover.
In net, sophomore
Danny Brady finished with 15 saves and a .517 save percentage. Brady finished the year with 158 saves, 11th-most in a single season in program history.
For Mount St. Mary's, Luke Frankeny, Brendan Doyle, and Jake D'Annunzio all finished with a team-high four points; in all 12 different players scored a goal and five scored at least two. Dylan Furnback stopped 13 shots in goal.
How it Happened
In a quiet first quarter on the scoreboard that featured six saves from Brady, Buque got Wagner on the board inside the final two minutes off a feed from Schmidt.
The Mountaineers took the lead back at 2-1 before the end of the quarter, then opened the second with four straight before Dwyer stopped the run with his first of the day.
Mount responded with three straight to close the quarter, carrying a 9-2 lead to the locker room, then opened the third quarter with two more before Brady scored his fourth goal in his last four games. Following another Mount score, Schmidt closed the quarter with a goal in the final 10 seconds.
Dwyer stopped a 6-0 Mount run inside the 5:00 mark of the final quarter with his second goal of the day, and Baker added his first goal of the season in the closing minute to round out the scoring for the Seahawks.
