Men's Lacrosse Drops First Game of the Season; Falls to #8 Mercy on Wednesday
Matthew Leslie goes for goal and an assist; first multi-point game of the season
DANBURY, Conn. (March 16, 2011) -- The Franklin Pierce
University men's lacrosse team suffered its first loss of the 2011
season on Wednesday as the Ravens fell, 22-4, to No. 8-nationally
ranked Mercy College at Rogers Park in Danbury, Conn. Franklin
Pierce dipped to 2-1 on the season, while Mercy improved to
5-0.
Mercy scored the game's first nine goals and took a 10-1 lead into
the intermission to pull away early for the win.
Franklin Pierce tallied its first goal with 40 seconds left in the
first half as freshman midfielder Edward Noonan (Foxboro,
Mass.) fed a pass over to senior middie Matthew
Leslie (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), who fired a shot past Mercy
goaltender T.J. DiCarlo.
Noonan tallied the Ravens next goal, at the 9:49 mark of the third
quarter, as he beat DiCarlo with a shot pass the goalie's stick
handle. It marked the second-straight multi-point game for Noonan,
who scored three times last week in a 9-8 win over Dominican. He
was named the NE-10's Rookie of the Week for that accomplishment.
In fact, Noonan has registered at least one point in each of his
first three collegiate games.
Junior midfielder Ryan Dintaman (Northfield,
Mass.) logged Franklin Pierce's third goal with 3:22 left
in the third as he scored off a pass from Leslie, who got credit
for an assist on the play, marking his first multi-point game of
the season.
Junior attackman Eric Harries (Dunstable, Mass.)
scored the Ravens final goal of the game, which came with under two
minutes remaining in the contest. The marker extended Harries'
streak of three-straight games with at least one goal.
Franklin Pierce rookie Tim Izzo (Trumbull, Conn.)
started in goal and was saddled with the loss as he yielded 17
goals, while making 10 saves, in a little over 40 minutes of
action. Senior goalie Shea Campbell (Centerport, N.Y.) came
on in relief and played the rest of the way for his first action of
the season.
The Ravens return to action Saturday when they travel to take on Le
Moyne in Syracuse, N.Y. at 1 p.m.
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