Twelve Score as Sacred Heart Beats Wagner
from press release
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Sacred Heart
men’s lacrosse team got goals from 12 different Pioneers on
their way to an 18-3 win over visiting Wagner College Saturday
afternoon on Campus Field. The Pioneers out shot the Seahawks 39-28
on the way to their second-straight win.
After the two teams exchanged goals in the game’s first three
minutes, the Pioneer offense outscored Wagner 7-1 over the rest of
the first half and 13-1 into the fourth quarter to take command.
Freshman Dennis Gannon (Huntington, NY) opened the scoring at 14:06
as seven different Pioneers scored in the first half for an 8-2
lead at the break.
After Wagner (1-5) freshman Mike Hurley made it 1-1 at the 12:14
mark of the first quarter, SHU’s Evan Morgan (Ashburn, VA)
got the Pioneers started on a 6-0 run. Junior Timmy Katz (Freeport,
NY) tacked on his team leading 10th goal off a feed from fellow
junior Stephen Gerhard (Littleton, CO). Also scoring on the march
was senior captain Bobby Rushton (West Islip, NY), who notched a
pair, along with sophomore Tim Russo (Lindenhurst, NY) and junior
Jon Flood (Hauppauge, NY).
Hurly ended the Pioneers run with his second of the first half off
a feed from Evan Shull but the momentum was short lived as Sacred
Heart tacked one on just before the half as senior Dan Casciano
(Syracuse, NY) buried a feed from junior Brendan Foley (Hicksville,
NY) with just 25 ticks left for an 8-2 lead at the break.
The Pioneers (2-4) left no doubt to start the third quarter,
building on Casciano’s marker with five-straight into the
fourth for a commanding 14-2 lead. Russo picked up his second to
open the quarter followed by unassisted tallies from Casciano,
Gerhard, freshman Matt Ferrino (Orchard Park, NY) and sophomore
Myles Rich (Huntington, CT). Hurly produced Wagner’s final
goal of the day scoring his third at 13:44 of the fourth from John
Hird.
SHU closed out the scoring with four-straight as sophomore Jake
Aaron (Brooklyn, CT) scored a pair along with Ferrino’s
second and junior Vincent Castelli’s (Woodbury, NY) first of
the season.
Junior Zack Frank (Islip Terrace, NY) played into the third quarter
making 11 saves in picking up the win in goal. Senior Zach Smith
(Chittenden, VT) won 12 of 18 face-offs on the day picking up a
team-best nine ground balls.
Sacred Heart will remain at home to open the Colonial Athletic
Association schedule next Saturday, March 28th playing host to the
Hofstra Pride.
Wagner (1-5) vs. Sacred Heart (2-4)
Date: 03/14/09 Location: Fairfield, Conn. Stadium: Campus Field
Attendance: 353 Start time: 2:45 pm End time: 4:27 pm Total time:
1:42
SCORE BY PERIOD 1 2 3 4 Tot
Wagner (1-5) 1 1 0 1 3
Sacred Heart (2-4) 3 5 5 5 18
Wagner SCORING: GOALS: HURLEY, Mike 3.
ASSISTS: HIRD, John 1; POISSANT, Brian 1; SHULL, Evan 1.
Sacred Heart SCORING: GOALS: Rushton, Bobby 2; Casciano, Dan 2;
Flood, Jon 2; Aaron, Jake 2; Ferrino, Matt 2; Russo, Tim 2; Rich,
Myles 1; Gerhard, Stephen 1; Katz, Timmy 1; Morgan, Evan 1;
Castelli, Vincent
1; Gannon, Dennis 1.
ASSISTS: Bourgeois, Raul 1; Casciano, Dan 1; Foley, Brendan 1;
Gerhard, Stephen 1; Redmond, Jack 1; Rich, Myles 1; Rushton, Bobby
1; Wilson, Parker 1.
SHOTS - Wagner 28; Sacred Heart 39.
SHOTS ON GOAL - Wagner 20; Sacred Heart 26.
PENALTIES - Wagner 8/6:30; Sacred Heart 4/4:00.
MAN-UP OPPORTUNITIES - Wagner 0-4; Sacred Heart 1-6.
TURNOVERS - Wagner 24; Sacred Heart 27.
FACEOFFS - Wagner 10-25; Sacred Heart 15-25.
GROUND BALLS – Wagner 30; Sacred Heart 46
CLEARS - Wagner 18-20; Sacred Heart 21-26.
GOALIES - WAGNER: GUTKIN, Michael (12:18 minutes, 5 shots-1 saves,
4 GA) , RUBIN, Peter 1-5 (47:42, 21-7, 14); SHU: Bazlen, Robert
(04:43, 1-1, 0) , Frank, Zack 2-3 (41:21, 13-11, 2) , Murtha, Mike
(03:38, 1-1, 0) , Trgo, Tom (10:18, 5-4, 1).
