Stony Brook's McBride Sinks UD Again
from press release
STONY BROOK, N.Y. - In last season's men's
lacrosse game between Stony Brook and Delaware, sophomore Jordan
McBride (New Westminster, B.C.) scored a school-record 10 goals to
lead the Seawolves to a 19-16 win. McBride was a deciding factor
again in this afternoon's rematch between the two teams in LaValle
Stadium, scoring with 2:57 left in the second overtime, his third
of the day, to lift Stony Brook to a 10-9 win, its third straight.
Sophomore Timmy Trenkle (Commack, N.Y.) also scored three times for
the Seawolves.
"That was a heck of a game," remarked Stony Brook head coach Rick
Sowell. "I am really proud of my guys for the way that they battled
today. Our defense got us some big stops late in the game,
particularly in overtime. Delaware threw a bit of a curve at us the
way they defended us, but we overcame that with a couple of man-up
goals. Overall it was a great effort for us."
Both teams had opportunities in the first overtime to finish off a
game in which neither side held more than a two-goal advantage.
After sophomore Adam Rand (Niantic, Conn.) won the opening
face-off, Stony Brook (3-2) got off three shots in the first two
minutes of OT number one. Delaware (2-4) goalie Noah Fossner was
equal to the task, turning away two shots before the Blue Hens
gained control of the ball. Delaware got off five shots in a minute
span, but none were on goal and the game went to a second OT.
Rand again controlled the crucial face-off and this time it paid
off. The Seawolves worked the ball for over a minute before junior
Tom Compitello (Hauppauge, N.Y.) was able to send a pass to the
front of the Delaware goal to McBride who put it away with 2:03
showing on the clock.
It was Stony Brook that drew first blood in the contest, getting
goals from freshman Robbie Campbell (Delta, B.C.) and McBride
midway through the first quarter for the early 2-0 lead. Delaware
got on the board at the 3:51 mark of the first on a shot by Martin
Cahill. That started the Blue Hens on a 4-0 run that went into the
second quarter as they got a pair of goals from Curtis Dickson and
one by Kevin Kaminski that put UD up 4-2 with 9:14 left in the
second.
Trenkle notched his first goal of the game to end a Stony Brook
scoring drought that lasted over 15 minutes and cut the Delaware
lead down to one. The combination of McBride and Compitello that
worked at the end of the game worked to tie the score at 4-4 with
2:01 left in the second when the Seawolves took advantage of a
man-up opportunity. Junior Mike Palmer (Westbury, N.Y.) threaded a
pass through the Delaware defense in the final seconds of the
quarter, one that sophomore Kevin Crowley (New Westminster, B.C.)
put home to give SBU a 5-4 lead at the break.
Delaware responded in the first five minutes of the third with two
goals, retaking the lead on Cahill's second score of the game at
the 10:26 mark. The Blue Hens were looking to add to their lead
when junior Steven Waldeck (Levittown, N.Y.) forced a turnover and
scooped up the ground ball. Taking advantage of the transition
opportunity, he took it the length of the field and fired a shot
past Fossner to knot the game at six-all.
Penalties gave Delaware a pair of man-up tries over the next few
minutes but Stony Brook, which held the Blue Hens without a score
in five extra-man tries, stopped both. Junior Charlie Paar
(Huntington, N.Y.) stopped one shot during the second UD man-up
opportunity and started a Stony Brook clear that was successful.
Freshman Kyle Belton (Langley, B.C.) wound up with the ball on the
offensive end and pushed a shot towards the Delaware goal that
Fossner never saw coming. The ball rolled past him for a man-down
goal for the Seawolves, putting them back on top, 7-6, with 3:54
left in the third.
After Delaware had tied things up again late in the third on
another Dickson goal, Stony Brook struck twice in a minute span in
the fourth, with Trenkle scoring both, to take a 9-7 advantage with
8:46 left. Dickson scored again, however, for the Blue Hens with
4:11 left and Mark Steverson tied things up a little more than a
minute later, tying the game for the sixth time, setting up the
overtime finish.
McBride and Trenkle's three goals led the Seawolves, with Trenkle's
output a career-high. Compitello had three assists for Stony Brook,
also a career best. Paar finished with 17 saves in goal for SBU.
Dickson led all players with his four goals for Delaware.
