Box Score THE BASICS
Score: Vassar 17, Emerson 16
Records: Emerson Lions (3-3) ; Vassar Brewers (4-1)
Location: Boston, Mass. (Rotch Field)
Date: March 8, 2023
The Lead: Sophomore Jack Burns tallied a team-best four goals and had another three goals contributed from freshman Aedan Kiniry, but the Emerson men's lacrosse team were edged out, 17-16, by Vassar on Wednesday afternoon.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
EMERSON
Burns: four goals
Kiniry: three goals
Nicholas Fulgione: two goals, four assists
Birk Swan: two goals, three assists
Jiwon Kim & Josh DeMattos: two caused turnovers
James Toomy: six ground balls
FACE OFFS
James Toomy (18-37)
GOALIE
Malcolm McGrath (L, 3-3): 17 goals allowed on 36 shots with 19 stops through 60 minutes
VASSAR
Troy Santise: five goals
Shane O'Hara: three goals
Ian Zumpano: three goals
Holden Anderson: 12 ground balls
Solomen Hess & Cullen Fagan: two caused turnovers
FACE OFFS
Holden Anderson (17-28) ; Thomas Cameron (2-9)
GOALIE
Jack Bagin (W, 4-1): 12 goals on 21 shots with nine saves through 45 minutes
Drew Quinn: four goals allowed on five shots wit one save through 15 minutes
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Vassar snagged the 1-0 edge 2:39 into the first quarter on a marker from Dan Negron. Four minutes later, Kiniry buried the first Emerson goal at 8:40 to level the score at 1-all.
- After Emerson had tied up the game, Vassar strung together a 3-0 run behind two goals from Zumpano and O'Hara to push the Brewers to the 4-1 advantage. At 2:54, O'Rourke broke up Vassar's scoring with an unassisted tally to cut the lead in half at 4-2.
- With 55 ticks left in the first, Santise capitalized with the man advantage and sent the fifth Brewers goal in as Emerson entered the second down three at 5-2.
- It took Emerson 36 seconds into the second frame two ring off back-to-back goals from Burns and Swan to brought the Lions within one at 5-4 at the 13:38 mark.
- In between goals from O'Hara and Santise, Burns slipped in a goal that kept Emerson within striking distance at 7-5 with 10:44 to go in the second. 5:19 later, Zumpano's goal put Emerson back to a three-goal deficit at 8-5.
- Within the final 3:14 of the stanza, the duo of Burns and freshman Kurt Schwarz teamed up for two key goals that lifted the Lions to within a one-goal margin at 8-7 at the half.
- Vassar recorded two goals in less than two minutes, both unassisted tallies from Santise and Riley Olds, and once against put Emerson in a three-goal hole at 10-7 with 13:13 on the clock of the third.
- From 12:05 to 2:42, the Lions' offense went to work. Offit began and capped off the Purple & White's 4-0 scoring tear and snagged their first lead of the game at 11-all.
- Vassar responded with another pair of goals from Fagan and Olds and lifted the Brewers back in front at 12-11 with the clock at 1:17. Then with 10 seconds left in the third, Fulgione buried the game-tying 12th goal and sent the game into the fourth at 12-all.
- Much like the third quarter, Vassar registered the first two goals in the fourth and extended their lead back to two at 14-12 with 10:26 on the clock.
- Starting at 9:51 from 6:13, Emerson and Vassar traded off goals that kept the game in at two-goal margin. O'Hara tacked on another goal for the Brewers at 3:06 and Emerson faced another three-goal hole at 17-14.
- Emerson started to put together a comeback in the final two and a half minutes when Fulgione and Toomy sent two markers past Quinn to give the Lions' life at 17-16 and 2:22 left in regulation.
- The Lions were able to get one more shot off at 1:18, but the shot soared high.
- Vassar gained possession in the remaining 57 seconds as Emerson's comeback was a goal short at 17-16.
UP NEXT
- Emerson treks out of state on Saturday, March 11th when they head up to New York for a matchup against No. 5/7 Union (N.Y.) at 1:00 p.m.
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