Vermont Opens with Win Over Colgate
from press release
BURLINGTON, Vt. – Sophomore Drew Philie
tallied a game-high six points on four goals and two assists to
lead the Vermont men's lacrosse team to a 9-4 victory over Colgate
in the season opener for the Catamounts. UVM improves to 1-0 and
has now won four of its last five home openers.
Vermont scored the opening three goals of the contest and the final
three, as the Cats also received four points from junior Thomas
Galvin.
“I was pretty happy for our first game,” said Vermont
head coach Ryan Curtis. “I was expecting it to be a little
sloppy at times and we saw that in the third quarter, but our guys
battled back from that. The effort was there the whole game and
that is all we ask of them. We told the team before the game,
expect that you might make some mistakes but don't compound them by
not forgetting about it and that they need to move on, and they did
that.”
The Cats jumped out to a quick 3-0 advantage in the first 6:37 of
play. Philie earned the team's first goal of the season on a feed
from Galvin just 1:22 in. Philie would set up the next goal with an
assist on Geoff Worley's tally and then freshman Ahmad Zachary
earned his first point as a Catamount with a goal.
After Colgate (0-2) made it 3-1, Philie and Galvin hooked up again
with the reigning America East Rookie of the Year earning his
second score of the contest with 2:44 left in the first quarter.
The Raiders cut it to 4-3 after a pair of scores, including one on
a man-up advantage, before Vermont responded with the final two
tallies of the first half to take a 6-3 lead at the break. Philie
picked up the hat trick with his third and Galvin scored with 3:33
to go before intermission.
In the third quarter only one goal was recorded, as Colgate's
Brendon McCann scored 1:55 in. The score would stay 6-4 Vermont
until 4:52 into the fourth when Galvin earned his second of the day
on Luke Ryder's second assist of the afternoon. UVM closed out the
game with sophomore Garrett Virtue picking up his first of the
season and Philie earning an unassisted tally with 2:43
remaining.
Junior David Barton earned the win in the cage with eight saves on
the day, as Vermont held a 30-21 shot advantage for the game.
Andrew Mould led the Raiders with a pair of goals.
