LAX Season Ends with Loss at Saint Joseph's
STANDISH, Maine - The MItchell College men's lacrosse team wrapped
up its regular season with an 18-7 loss at Saint Joseph's College
on Wednesday afternoon at Westerlea Way Field.
Spencer Hunt scored four goals and added five assists in the SJC
triumph. Saint Joseph's improved to 10-7 overall while Mitchell
finished the season at 2-10.
Early in the second half, Blake Edwards and Elliot LaMarre scored
goals just four seconds apart to lift the hosts to an 8-2 lead. The
four-second span tied the NCAA DIII Men’s Lacrosse record for
fastest consecutive goals scored by the same team.
Luke LaFreniere notched four goals and five groundballs and LaMarre
tallied four goals with six groundballs and won 62.5% (10-16) of
his face-off attempts for the Monks. SJC keeper Marco Stefano made
12 saves and improved to 5-2 on the season.
Sophomore Aharon Wall, classmate Adam
Grillo and junior Steven
Barnett all scored two goals apiece for the Mariners while
sophomore goaliekeeper Joseph
Nott made 14 stops between the pipes.
Hunt opened the game scoring with an unassisted marker 2:10 after
the opening whistle and Wall tied the game 1:23 later.
With a goal at the 11:12 mark, LaFreniere sparked a 5-0 SJC surge
that allowed the Monks to secure a 6-1 cushion after the first 15
minutes of play. Grillo scored a man-up marker to start the
second-quarter scoring at the 14:17 mark, but the record-tying
goals followed to lift St. Joe’s to an 8-2 advantage.
St. Joe’s led 9-4 heading into the second half and the teams
traded goals for the first 12 minutes of the third quarter, as the
Monks held a 12-7 lead after Barnett netted his second goal of the
game with 3:28 left in the third stanza. Tookie Amosun put the
Monks up by six with 1:02 remaining in the third and Saint
Joseph’s scored five unanswered goals in the fourth quarter
en route to earning the 18-7 victory.
Vining scored the game’s final goal, the first marker of his
career, with one minute remaining.
Saint Joseph’s held the advantage in shots (51-28),
groundballs (59-34), face-offs (20-9) and clear rate (83%-67%) in
the victory.
