Bocklet's Four Goals Lead Virginia over Mount
from press release
EMMITSBURG, Md. – Sophomore Chris Bocklet
scored four goals and tallied one assist to lead the No. 2 Virginia
Cavaliers to a 15-7 victory over the Mount St. Mary’s
Mountaineers on Tuesday afternoon at Waldron Family Stadium.
Bocklet’s four goals are a career high, matching his season
total during his freshman season in 2009. He did score two goals in
UVa’s season opener at Drexel.
Virginia improves to 2-0 on the season, while Mount St.
Mary’s drops to 0-1 after losing its season opener.
Virginia opened up the contest scoring four straight times,
beginning when Colin Briggs (Narragansett, R.I.) tallied his first
goal of the season when his first shot of the game went into the
net unassisted at 11:17 in the first quarter.
Then Bocklet (South Salem, N.Y.) scored four of UVa’s next
five goals, staking the Cavaliers to a 5-1 advantage after the
first quarter. Bocklet scored off a Shamel Bratton
(Huntington Station, N.Y.) pass at 4:03, followed by a Steele
Stanwick (Baltimore, Md.) helper at 2:44.
Stanwick scored shortly after when Ryan Benincasa (Old Greenwich,
Conn.) won the ensuing faceoff, picking up the ground ball running
and assisted the score at 2:37.
The Mountaineers put a goal on the scoreboard when Cody Lehrer
scored via a Bryant Schmidt pass at 1:47. Bocklet capped the
first quarter scoring when he picked up a ground ball behind the
cage and swept around to his left, scoring with the clock reading
1.9 seconds.
Bocklet opened up the second quarter with his fourth goal of the
game at 12:55 on a pass from Brian Carroll (Towson, Md.).
Connor English (Manhasset, N.Y.) scored just over a minute later
unassisted at 11:47.
Mount St. Mary’s put two more dents in the scoreboard, first
at 7:21 when Lehrer scored his second goal of the game on a
Christian Kellett assist. Schmidt registered his first
collegiate goal unassisted at 2:46, cutting the UVa advantage to
four goals, 7-3.
Virginia closed out the half with two goals to take a 9-3 lead
into the break. Chris LaPierre (Medford, N.J.) scored his
first collegiate goal at 2:06 after Ryan Nizolek (Madison, Conn.)
picked up a ground ball via a Mount St. Mary’s turnover just
prior to his assist.
Matt White (Ridgefield, Conn.) capped the first half scoring when
he took a Stanwick pass and scored with 47 seconds left in the
first half.
UVa outshot Mount St. Mary’s 27-9 in the first half,
including 11-2 in the first period.
Shamel Bratton scored the first goal of the third quarter on a
Bocklet pass at 10:13. Carroll scored his second goal unassisted at
8:37.
Mount St. Mary’s would score again at 2:32 on unassisted
goal by Andrew Scalley, capping the third quarter scoring with his
first collegiate goal.
English started the scoring for both teams in the fourth quarter
with back-to-back goals, starting with one via a Nick
O’Reilly (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) pass at 13:49.
English tallied an unassisted score at 12:12, his third of the game
to give UVa the 13-4 lead.
Briggs extended UVa’s lead with his second goal of the
contest at 8:40 on a Matt Kugler (Fairfax Station, Va.) assist.
However, Mount St. Mary’s did reciprocate quickly at 7:01 on
an Eric Ososki goal, and again at 5:05 on Lehrer’s third goal
of the game, courtesy of a Mark Stapor pass.
In the middle of The Mountaineers’ goals, O’Reilly
scored his first collegiate goal for UVa at 6:35 unassisted.
Lehrer scored his fourth goal of the game at 2:10 on an assist by
Brendan Harrison, capping the game’s scoring.
“I thought we played well offensively during the
day,” said Virginia head coach Dom Starsia “For a team
that is a work in progress offensively, I thought it was a step
forward today.”
UVa’s young attack was responsible for 10 of their 15
goals on the afternoon.
Starsia was pleased with his attack when the veteran midfield was
heavily defended. “If they are going to slide early to our
midfield and that is what teams are doing, like Drexel did on
Saturday – when they double pulled us and tripled pulled us
in the midfield - our attackmen have to make plays. If midfielders
draw the attention, the attackmen need to finish the plays and they
did that today.”
In addition to Bocklet’s career day, English tallied three
goals in his second collegiate game, while Briggs added two more
scores to pace UVa’s scoring. Stanwick, the reigning
ACC Player of the Week, added two assists with his one score after
giving way in the middle of the third quarter to freshman attackmen
Riley and Matt Cockerton, who made their collegiate debut.
Lehrer paced Mount St. Mary’s with four goals, the only
Mountaineer to score more than once.
UVa outshot Mount St. Mary’s for the game, 46-22, while also
winning 16-of-25 faceoff chances. UVa also was a perfect
18-of-18 in the clearing game.
No. 2 Virginia returns to action on Saturday against No. 18 Stony
Brook (1-0). The game will be played at the University Hall Turf
Field and will faceoff at 3 p.m.
Virginia 5-4-2-4-15 record: 2-0
Mount St. Mary's 1-2-1-3-7 record: 0-1
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Scoring (G-A)- V:Chris Bocklet 4-1, Connor English 3-0, Colin
Briggs 2-0, Steele Stanwick 1-2, Brian Carroll 1-1, Shamel Bratton
1-1, Nick O'Reilly 1-1, Matt White 1-0, Chris LaPierre 1-0, Ryan
Benincasa 0-1, Matt Kugler 0-1, Ryan Nizolek 0-1 M: Cody Lehrer
4-1, Bryant Schmidt 1-1, Andrew Scalley 1-0, Eric Ososki 1-0,
Brendan Harrison 0-1, Christian 0-1, Mark Stapor 0-1
Goalie Summary- V: Adam Ghitelman 45 mins., 4 saves, 4 goals
allowed; Rob Fortunato 12:50 mins., 2 saves, 2 goals allowed; Rob
Eimer 2:10 mins., 0 saves, 0 goals allowed M: T.C. DiBartolo 60
mins., 16 saves, 15 goals allowed
Shots: V-46, M-22
Ground Balls: V-38, M-21
Clearing: V-18x18, M-14x22
Faceoffs: V-16, M-9
Penalties: V-3-1:30, M-4-2:30
EMO: V-2x4, M-1x3
