Springfield, Mass. – Senior attacker
Devin Andrews (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua Academy/Stony Brook) registered eight points to lead the top-ranked Le Moyne College men's lacrosse team to a 25-4 win over American International College on Saturday evening in Northeast-10 Conference action at Abdow Field.
The Dolphins jumped out to a 6-0 lead through the opening 8:11. Graduate student midfielder
Hans Zimmer (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa) started the scoring just 66 seconds into the contest with his second tally of the season. Freshman attackman
Sam Cary (Fulton, N.Y./G. Ray Bodley) followed 55 seconds later with his first career goal. Zimmer made it 3-0 at the 11:09 mark after taking a pass from fifth-year attackman
Matt Hutchings (Marcellus, N.Y./Marcellus). Just over one minute later, Andrews netted his first goal of the season. Junior midfielder
Ben McCreary (Cicero, N.Y./Christian Brothers Academy (Syracuse)) made it 5-0 with 7:32 left, while junior attackman
John Howes (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) capped the spurt 43 seconds later with his first goal of the season after collecting a feed from junior attackman
Kevin Sheehan (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee).
American International broke through at the 5:27 mark as Tyler Shewsbury scored off a pass from Avery Foye.
Junior midfielder
Sam Lambert (Victor, N.Y./Victor) netted his first goal of the season with 4:14 to go off a dish from McCreary, who followed at the 1:09 mark with his fifth goal of the campaign to close out the scoring in the quarter.
Redshirt junior midfielder
Zach Pierce (Gansevoort, N.Y./Schuylerville/Onondaga C.C.) opened the scoring in the second quarter at the 11:46 mark by finishing off a feed from Hutchings.
AIC got the goal back exactly two minutes later as Jason Vickery scored in an extra-man situation off a pass from Foye.
Le Moyne scored the final three goals of the quarter to take a 12-2 lead into halftime. Senior attackman
Jon Pfohl (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna/Stony Brook) started the streak with 5:20 left after receiving a pass from Sheehan. Hutchings netted his eighth goal of the campaign with 3:11 remaining off a feed from Andrews, who closed out the half's scoring with 2:38 to go off a dish from junior midfielder
Colin Sypek (Lake Worth, Fla./American Heritage School (Delray Beach)).
The Dolphins scored five times over a span of 3:46 in the opening 7:46 of the third quarter. Sypek started the jaunt with his second goal of the season after taking a pass from Hutchings, who passed Gold Wave Hall of Fame member Bob Tifft '93 for the ninth-most assists in the program's history with his 67th. Following two penalties on the Yellow Jackets, Pierce scored eight seconds into the 6-on-4 situation after collecting a pass from Sheehan, who added an extra-man goal of his own 1:19 later off a feed from Hutchings. Just 42 seconds later, Sypek netted his third goal of the year for a 16-2 lead. Only 27 seconds later, Hutchings registered an extra-man goal after taking a pass from Sypek. With the goal, Hutchings tied Matt Chadderdon '11 for the ninth-most goals in the program's history with his 99th.
The Yellow Jackets tallied the final two goals of the quarter. Foye scored at the 2:08 mark off a pass from Matt Quinlan and Vickery netted an extra-man goal with 46 seconds left off a feed from Shrewsbury.
The Dolphins put the game away with eight unanswered goals in the fourth quarter. Andrews started the outburst with 13:36 left off a pass from Sypek. Howes followed with a man-down goal after a pass in transition from senior short-stick defensive midfielder
Casey Nevins (Corning, N.Y./Corning-Painted Post). Howes then scored back-to-back goals off passes from Andrews. Nevins followed with a man-down goal of his own off another assist from Andrews with 6:43 left. Howes finished off another pass from Andrews with 5:24 to play. Junior midfielder
John Bergan (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) scored his third goal of the year with 1:36 left and Pfohl closed out the game's scoring with an unassisted tally with 1:01 to play.
Redshirt senior goalkeeper
Riley Smith (Baldwinsville, N.Y./C.W. Baker/Onondaga C.C.) earned the victory between the pipes after making four saves (against two goals) in the first half. Junior face-off specialist
Nico Mattia (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury) went 23-of-33 at the center dot and scooped up 14 ground balls. Ryan Day made seven saves (against 12 goals) in the first half in the loss.
Le Moyne (4-0, 3-0 NE10), which scored its most goals since a 27-1 win over the Yellow Jackets to open the 2017 season, returns home to face The College of Saint Rose on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m.