Loudonville, N.Y. – Pratt Reynolds tallied three goals to lead Siena College to an 11-9 victory over the Le Moyne College men's lacrosse team on Wednesday afternoon at Hickey Field.
The teams traded goals in the first quarter. Siena opened the game's scoring 91 seconds into the contest as Jack Cavaioli netted his third goal of the game off a pass from Ryan McCarthy. The Dolphins answered back 34 seconds later as redshirt junior attackman
Ethan Loun (West Linn, Ore./West Linn) fired in his fifth goal of the campaign. Following eight and one-half minutes of scoreless action, during which each team had five empty possessions, Colby Leblanc put the Saints back in front at the 4:20 mark off a pass from Patrick Radomski. Le Moyne evened the score at two with just two seconds left in the quarter as junior midfielder
Isaac Frechette (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) finished off a feed from senior midfielder
Seth Benedict (Stanley, N.Y./Marcus Whitman).
Le Moyne took its first lead of the game just 35 seconds into the second quarter as junior midfielder
Ryan Eisenmann (Boca Raton, Fla./Boca Raton) tallied his third goal of the season.
Siena tallied the next three goals and five of the next six to take its largest lead of the game. Radomski tied the game with 13:08 remaining off a pass from McCarthy. Reynolds put his team in front just over five minutes later after collecting a feed from Caden Olmstead. Following a Le Moyne penalty, Travis Fry scored from the front of the crease with 6:53 left off a dish from behind the net from McCarthy.
Le Moyne answered back with a goal in transition with 5:16 remaining as Frechette finished off a pass from senior short-stick defensive midfielder
Max Cramer (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius).
The Saints followed with a pair of goals in 65 seconds to take a 7-4 lead. Fry scored at the 4:25 mark after taking a pass from Olmstead. Rocco Barbero followed with his second goal of the year with 3:20 left.
The Dolphins took advantage of a penalty on the Saints to close within 7-5 with 1:37 left in the half as Loun found the back of the net after receiving a pass from senior attackman
Joey Pezzimenti (Victor, N.Y./Victor/UAlbany) in the extra-man situation.
Pezzimenti got the Dolphins on the scoreboard first in the third quarter with his fourth goal of the season at the 13:00 mark to make it 7-6.
Siena regained its two-goal lead at the 7:54 mark as Mark Cummins scored his first goal of the year off a dish from Will Edell.
Le Moyne scored the final two goals of the quarter to even the score at eight. Following another Siena penalty, junior midfielder
Olin Stanat (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) registered his second goal of the year after collecting a feed from Loun with 6:49 remaining. After two empty possessions by each team, Eisenmann fired in his fourth goal of the year with 2:15 left in the quarter.
The Saints took control of the game with the first three goals of the fourth quarter. Reynolds put his team in front for good with 13:43 left off a pass from Fry. He then tallied his 11th goal of the season with 10:21 remaining off a feed from Olmstead. Fry followed 1:09 later with his seventh goal of the campaign.
The Dolphins took advantage of another Siena penalty to cut its deficit to two. Off a pass from Stanat, Benedict tallied his fifth goal of the season with 8:24 to play.
The Dolphins were unable to put another shot on goal until the final 16 seconds, but it was turned away.
Redshirt freshman goalkeeper
Carter Ruhm (Apalachin, N.Y./Vestal/Bridgton Academy/Robert Morris) tallied 12 saves, including nine in the first half, in the setback. Junior faceoff specialist
Sam Getty (Orchard Park, N.Y./Canisius HS) went 16-of-24 at the dot and recorded 15 ground balls, tied for the second-most by a Dolphin over the last 21 seasons and the most since Kam Bumpus '14 had 18 against Merrimack on May 2, 2014. Andrew Arcuri had 10 saves to earn the win for the Saints.
Le Moyne (1-2) is back in action on Saturday at fourth-ranked University of Denver at 9:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. MT