Late Rally Lifts Mount Over St. Joe's
from press release
EMMITSBURG, Md. - Mount St. Mary’s scored
twice in the final minute to rally past Saint Joseph’s, 7-6,
in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference matchup on Wednesday
afternoon. Sophomore Brendan Harrison (Ellicott City, Md./Mount
Hebron) scored with 20.0 seconds left to lift the Mount (3-7, 3-2)
to the victory.
Trailing 6-5 with Saint Joseph’s in possession of the ball
with 1:38 left in the game, the Mount forced a turnover and was
able to clear the ball into the offensive end. Sophomore Mark
Stapor (Herndon, Va./Bishop O’Connell) then drove to the cage
and beat goalkeeper Erik Hotaling to even the score at 6-6 with 38
seconds on the clock.
The Mount’s Ben Trapp (Timonium, Md./Dulaney) won the
face-off with Harrison picking up the ground ball. Mount St.
Mary’s worked the ball around the cage to Cody Lehrer
(Baltimore, Md./Dulaney), who fed the ball to Harrison in front of
the cage. Harrison buried the shot with 20.0 seconds on the clock
to give the Mount the 7-6 advantage.
The Hawks won the ensuing face-off and had a shot go wide. The
Mount’s Brendan Flanagan (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City)
forced a turnover to seal the victory.
The Mount trailed 5-2 heading into the fourth quarter, but struck
quickly to get back into the game. Trapp won the face-off, fed the
ball to Lehrer, who found Christian Kellett (Audubon, Pa./Malvern
Prep) open for a goal just nine seconds into the fourth
quarter.
Lehrer then converted a Ryan Shewell (Baltimore, Md./Loyola
Blakefield) for his second score of the game to cut the deficit to
5-4 with 10:56 remaining. Stapor tallied an unassisted goal with
6:43 left to even the score.
The Hawks responded with a transition goal from Sean Evan with 4:56
remaining to take a 6-5 advantage. Saint Joseph’s almost got
an insurance goal when a lose ball in front of the cage hugged the
goal line before the Mount’s DiBartolo was able to scoop up
the ground ball.
The Mount had a pair of chances to even the game. Kellett was
stopped on a point-blank shot from right in front of the goal by
Hotaling with 3:00 on the clock. Stapor hit the post with a shot at
the 2:12 mark.
In the first half, Saint Joseph’s struck for the first goal
when Tom Dunn made a terrific effort to keep possession of the ball
in front of the cage and bury a shot past Mount goalkeeper T.C.
DiBartolo (Bowie, Md./Archbishop Spalding). The Mount countered
just under a minute later when freshman Mike Adkins (Wilmington,
Del./Salesianum) netted his sixth goal of the year on a pass from
Kellett.
Lehrer put the Mount ahead 2-1 early in the second quarter, but
Alex Lopes and Evans scored consecutive goals to give Saint
Joseph’s (4-8, 2-4 MAAC) a 3-2 halftime advantage. The Hawks
scored both goals in the third quarter to take a 5-2 lead. Lopes
and Charlie Gorman were the goal scorers.
Lehrer finished with two goals and two assists to pace the Mount
while Stapor added two goals and Kellett a goal and an assist in
the win. DiBartolo made 11 saves to earn the win in the cage.
Harrison led the Mount with six ground balls with Trapp adding five
in the contest.
Lopes and Evans each had two goals for the Hawks while Gorman
chipped in a goal and an assist in the loss. Hotaling made 10 saves
in a losing effort.
The Mount held a 28-27 advantage in shots and a 34-24 margin in
ground balls in the game.
Mount St. Mary’s returns to action on Saturday, April 18,
with a 1:00 p.m. game at MAAC leader Siena.
Game Notes: The Mount holds a 12-4 advantage in the all-time series
with Saint Joseph’s and has won nine of the past 10
meetings...The past four games in the series have been decided by a
total of five goals...The Mount was 0-for-4 on extra-man
opportunities while Saint Joseph’s went 1-for-2.
