Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 4/23/26
From Press Release
The Alvernia men’s lacrosse team claimed its first win ever over Widener tonight, downing the Pride, 11-9, to guarantee its first .500 season in school history.
The Golden Wolves (8-7, 2-4 MAC Commonwealth) had never won two MAC games and also set a school mark for wins.
Widener fell to 3-12, 1-5 as Alvernia rallied in the second half after falling behind, 5-3.
How it Happened
Widener got out to a hot start and netted the first two goals of the game to take a 2-0 lead after the first seven minutes of play. The Golden Wolves hit back with two goals of their own after Jimmy Sparacio and Charles Oberman both scored unassisted goals to tie the game at two with five minutes to play.
Widener netted the final goal of the first quarter to take a 3-2 lead into the second quarter. The Pride then added to the lead with two goals throughout a slow second quarter and pushed the lead to three, 5-2.
The Golden Wolves grabbed one back in the final 30 seconds of the half after Jack Natyshak scored. but the Pride still held a two goal, 5-3, advantage at the half.
Widener grabbed the first goal of the second half to push the lead back to three, 6-3, but the Golden Wolves answered with four straight goals to end the third quarter and take the 7-6 lead. Connor Stockton (St. Mark’s-DE) netted two goals during the stretch, including the game tying goal and Sparacio and Oberman both netted goals as well for the Golden Wolves.
The Pride leveled the score in just over a minute into the fourth quarter but Alvernia answered again after Keegan Driscoll connected with Natyshak to give the Golden Wolves the lead back, 8-7.
Alvernia then tacked on another when Driscoll found the back of the net to make it a 9-7 Alvernia lead.
Widener pulled one back with just under eight minutes to go in the game but Alvernia’s Ethan McManus netted back to back goals over the next three minutes to extend the Alvernia lead to three, 11-8.
The Pride tallied one final goal with just over three minutes to go in the game but it was not enough as the Golden Wolves secured the 11-9 victory over the Pride.
Inside the Box Score
Charles Oberman led the way with two goals and two assists and also picked up four ground balls.
Ethan McManus and Connor Stockton both netted two goals and added an assist and McManus picked up six ground balls.
Jimmy Sparacio and Jack Natyshak also scored two goals each, Keegan Driscoll netted a goal and added an assist and Carson Coleman dished out an assist as well.
Wesley Clemison caused a team high four turnovers, Christian Wright (Cherry Hill East) followed with two and Jackson Schools caused one turnover.
Nathan Byrne recorded 15 saves between the pipes for the Golden Wolves and earned the win.
Matthew Marino (Kingsway-NJ) , Samuel Haverstrom, and Nicholas Knepp (Central Bucks East) scored a pair each for Widener.
