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Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 3/4/25 – From Press Release
Philly grads Colin Michener (Penn Charter), Nick Lucchesi (Radnor), Brett Mallee (La Salle), and Ryan Cunningham (Salesianum School) made key contributions to lead the host Villanova men’s lacrosse team to a 9-6 victory over Drexel today.
Villanova moves to 2-3 and snapped a two-game losing streak while Drexel fell to 3-3.
Michener had two goals and an assist and Lucchesi scored twice while Cunningham won 8 of 12 faceoffs. Mallee led the defense with two groundballs and two caused turnovers. Matt Licata had two goals and an assist and David Link scored twice. Denis Fargione posted 11 saves for the win in goal.
Drexel struck first during a two-minute-long stretch with the ball on their third scoring attempt while controlling the possession by attackman Witt Crawford.
The Wildcats made the most of their own two long possessions in the first frame, where they wound the shot clock down past 30 seconds on both and netted goals.
Both Michener and Lucchesi were able to capitalize off of the ball movement and broke down their matchups, leading to scores.
After a three-goal run for the Dragons that featured a goal by Jack Joyner (Academy of the New Church, 1G, 1A), Michener answered back for his second multi-goal game of the season on a bounce shot, cutting the deficit to 4-3 in favor of Drexel.
Lucchesi tallied his second goal of the day with just 1.5 seconds to go in the half, knotting the game up at four entering the break.
The Dragons were able to send in 23 shots during the first half, 5 of which Fargione saved, holding them to just four goals in the half.
The second half was controlled by both sides of the ball for the Wildcats as they outscored the Dragons 5-2 in a gritty matchup reminiscent of the earliest between the two foes separated by just nine miles.
Licata got on the board twice in a row to start the third quarter and give the Wildcats their first multiple-goal lead of the game at 6-4.
The New Hampshire native was held scoreless in his last time out against Lehigh for the first time since April 28, 2023, against Georgetown and was able to bounce back with the two goals in this one.
After Drexel cut the lead back down to one off of a Will Farrell goal, Matthew Swirbalus recorded his first career goal to extend it back to two.
The Dragons leading scorer, Max Semple, tallied a score of his own on the next possession to enter the fourth with the ‘Cats ahead by just one.
Link did all the scoring for Villanova in the fourth, scoring twice. The redshirt sophomore totaled his first career game scoring multiple goals.
Fargione and the defense held the opposition scoreless in the final stanza, with the goalie recording four of his 11 saves in that period.
