Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 2/10/24
from Press Releases
Mike Robinson’s seven-goal performance led the University of Delaware men’s lacrosse team past Lafayette today, 14-6, at Delaware Stadium.
JP Ward added two goals and three assists for five points while Cam Acchione tallied two goals. Freshmen Bryson Kolinsky (Downingtown East) and Tyler Owings and sophomore Brendan Powers all added single goals. Sophomore transfer Hank D’Ambrogi (Cape Henlopen) and graduate student Nick Jessen finished with two and three assists, respectively.
In his first career start, Kevin Ellington held the Leopards off the board in the first half, making six of his 13 total saves in the opening 30:00.
The Hens were in control from the opening whistle as OJ Morris won the game’s first faceoff and 54 seconds later, Robinson found the back of the net to put Delaware up 1-0. By the 5:21 mark, Robinson had a hat trick and three minutes later, produced the golden sombrero with his fourth goal of the contest to close out the first 15 minutes of action. In the second, Robinson picked up where he left off in the first and found the back of the Lafayette net for the fifth time on an assist from Ward. From the 6:54 timestamp to 5:33 until the break, the Hens tacked on three more goals as Ward, Acchione, and Robinson went back-to-back-to-back to give UD an 8-0 edge headed into the locker room.
Sophomore Joe Doherty (Malvern Prep) spent all 60 minutes in goal for the Leopards, making 18 saves. Peter Lehman (Council Rock North) had two goals and an assist.
Lehigh 8, Hartford 7
The Mountain Hawks (1-1) survived a late push from the host Stags (0-1), giving Will Scudder his first win as a head coach.
Junior attackman Dakota Eierman scored the eventual game-winning goal for the Mountain Hawks with 2:05 remaining to put Lehigh up 8-5, but Fairfield would go on to score two goals in less than 40 seconds to cut Lehigh’s deficit to one with 44 seconds remaining in the game.
Sean Dow, who was 12-of-18 from the stripe on Saturday, won the biggest faceoff of his career with 44 seconds remaining to keep the possession with the Mountain Hawks. All Lehigh had to do was keep the Stags scoreless for the final 44 seconds, and the Mountain Hawks did just that. In addition to winning a career-high of 12 faceoffs, Dow also picked up eight ground balls.
Senior goalie Nick Pecora stood on his head on Saturday as finished with 13 saves, which is just one save shy of his career-high. Pecora also recorded the 200th save of his career. He currently has 206 saves.
The first quarter would be a defensive battle as Scott Cole scored the first and only goal for the Mountain Hawks with 10 seconds left in the opening frame.
Jake Gilbert evened things at one just 30 seconds into the second quarter, but the Mountain Hawks would go on to dominate the second quarter, ending the half on a 5-0 run to take a 6-1 lead.
The third frame was another defensive battle, with Luke Okupski scoring the lone goal with three seconds left to cut Lehigh’s lead to 6-2.
The Stags outscored the Mountain Hawks 5-2 in the fourth frame, but Lehigh’s four-goal lead would be enough to hold onto the lead.
Cole and Andrew Kelly (La Salle) both had a team-high of two goals, while EJ Vasille, Grant Rodny and Brian Mullen all netted one. Mullen’s goal, which he netted in the second quarter, was also his first collegiate goal.
