No. 3 Notre Dame Dispatches Vermont
from press releases
DALLAS, Texas - A five-goal effort from senior
attackman Ryan Hoff (Baldwin, Md./Dulaney) paved the way for the
No. 3 Notre Dame men's lacrosse team in a 13-7 triumph of Vermont
at the 2009 Patriot Cup on Saturday afternoon at Ford Stadium. The
win improves the Irish to 6-0 on the season.
Notre Dame exploded with a seven-goal first quarter to take a 7-1
lead after the opening 15 minutes of play. Junior attackman Neal
Hicks (Atlanta, Ga./The Lovett School) started the scoring for the
Irish just over two minutes into the contest.
After Vermont (3-3) knotted the score with an Andrew Kelleher goal
at the 9:33 mark of the first quarter, Notre Dame scored the game's
next eight goals to grab a 9-1 lead by the 13:00 mark of the second
quarter. Hoff tallied four of the goals in the surge, while fellow
senior Duncan Swezey (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) had two of the
scores. Sophomore midfielder David Earl (Simsbury,
Conn./Westminster School), who had a career-high three goals on the
day, and junior Grant Krebs (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) also scored
during the run.
The Catamounts answered with four straight goals of their own.
Kelleher netted back-to-back tallies to slice the deficit to six
(9-3) with 5:56 left on the clock in the second quarter. A goal
from Derek Lichtfuss cut the margin to five (9-4) at the
intermission.
Vermont's Ryan Gillette scored the first goal of the second half
with 6:25 remaining in the third quarter to make it a four-goal
contest (9-5). Notre Dame stopped the Catamount streak as Krebs fed
Hoff on a man-up goal with 3:35 left in the third period. The
Irish, who were 2-for-6 on man-up opportunities on the afternoon,
led 10-5 after three quarters. The Catamounts did not convert on
its only man-up chance of the day.
Following Kelleher's fourth goal of the contest, Earl and Hicks
deposited scores to give Notre Dame a 12-6 lead with 8:35 left in
regulation. A goal from Vermont's Parker Bunnell made it 12-7 at
the 6:36 mark. Earl finished off his hat trick with 21 seconds left
to produce the final margin.
Hoff, Krebs, Swezey, Dan Gibson (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis
University School) and Adam Felicetti (Doylestown, Pa./Central
Bucks East) all collected an assist for the Irish in the win.
Senior goalie Scott Rodgers (Wantagh, N.Y./MacArthur) made nine
saves to up his record to 6-0 on the season. His counterpart Justin
Lubas had 13 stops in the loss. The Fighting Irish out shot the
Catamounts 47-30. Notre Dame won 14 of 23 faceoffs as Jake Marmul
(Livonia, Mich./Detroit Catholic Central) went 7-4 and Trever
Sipperly (Greenwich, N.Y./Greenwich) was 7-5.
