Rindge, N.H. – Senior attackman
Greg White (Buffalo, N.Y./Nichols School) registered a career-high five points to lead the top-ranked Le Moyne College men's lacrosse team to an 18-6 win over Franklin Pierce University on Tuesday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Sodexo Field.
Following almost eight and one-half minutes of scoreless play to start the game, Franklin Pierce opened the game's scoring as Josh Dorr tallied his third goal of the season.
The Dolphins evened the score at one apiece with 4:02 remaining in the first quarter as sophomore midfielder
Ross Filtch (Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus/Siena) recorded his sixth goal of the campaign. Freshman attackman
Devin Andrews (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua Academy/Stony Brook) put the Dolphins in front 57 seconds later with his 12th tally of the year.
White pushed Le Moyne's lead to 3-1 at the 13:17 mark of the second quarter after taking a pass from junior midfielder
Dan Entenmann (Auburn, N.Y./Auburn).
Jack Carney answered back just over two minutes later to get the Ravens within a goal for the final time.
The Dolphins answered with four straight goals to take control of the game. Entenmann started the run with his seventh goal of the year with 9:55 to go. Andrews netted his 13th goal of the year 60 seconds later. Following a penalty on the goal, the Dolphins started with the ball and Andrews found the back of the net 10 seconds later after collecting a pass from sophomore midfielder
Matt Hutchings (Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus). White capped the streak with an unassisted goal with 7:04 left.
Benjamin Lassow snapped Le Moyne's streak by recording his 20th goal of the year with 5:18 remaining in the half.
Le Moyne scored three times in 105 seconds to take a 10-3 lead into halftime. White tallied his third goal of the quarter with 3:46 left off a feed from sophomore midfielder
Hans Zimmer (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa). Just 38 seconds later, senior attackman
Justin Kesselring (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport) finished off a pass from White for his 25th goal of the year. Entenmann finished off the scoring in the half with 2:01 remaining.
The Dolphins pushed their lead to 12-3 with the first two goals of the third quarter. Filtch registered his second goal of the game at the 11:12 mark, while senior midfielder
Tom Koster (Cicero, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse/Onondaga C.C.) followed 45 seconds later with his third goal of the year.
Franklin Pierce scored two of the last three goals in the quarter to pull within 13-5. Carney scored his 13th goal of the season with 5:02 left in the quarter for Franklin Pierce's fourth goal of the game. After junior midfielder
James Felix (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford) recorded his first goal of the year with 3:41 left, Lassow scored 60 seconds.
The Dolphins put the game away with the first five goals of the fourth quarter. Filtch found the back of the net for the eighth time this season 1:12 into the period. Just over one minute later, White tallied his fourth goal of the day after receiving a pass from junior attackman
Ryan Cosgrove (Churchville, N.Y./Churchville-Chili). Only 35 seconds later, Hutchings recorded his 10th goal of the campaign. Filtch netted his fourth goal of the day with 8:43 to play after taking a pass from Zimmer, while junior attackman
Daniel Lynch (Billerica, Mass./Billerica) completed Le Moyne's scoring with his first goal of the year with 6:07 left.
Jake Castorf finished the game's scoring with 1:48 left off a pass from Joe Palmeri.
Junior goalkeeper
Kyle Lumpe (Greenlawn, N.Y./Harborfields) earned his third straight victory after playing the first half between the pipes. Redshirt senior
Kendall Vecchio (Watertown, N.Y./Watertown/Johns Hopkins) (14-15), junior
Zac Cooley (Webster, N.Y./Pittsford/Hobart) (10-10) and sophomore
Joe Cerio (Enola, Pa./Elmira (N.Y.)/Mercyhurst) (1-2) combined to go 25-of-27 at the faceoff dot. The 25 faceoff victories are tied for the third-most in a game in the program's history, while the trio's .926 win percentage is also the third-best in games with at least 20 faceoff victories (27 games). Justin Lorenzo recorded 14 saves (against 16 goals) over 47:50 between the pipes for the Ravens in the loss.
Le Moyne (9-0, 5-0 NE10), which improved to 19-0 all-time against the Ravens, returns home to host eighth-ranked Pace University on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.