Box Score THE BASICS
Score: No. 15 Bowdoin 26, Emerson 9
Records: Emerson Lions (5-10) ; Bowdoin Bears (10-3)
Location: Brunswick, Maine (Whittier Field)
Date: April 18, 2023
The Lead: Sophomore Jack Burns tallied a team-high four goals for the Emerson men's lacrosse team, but the Lions were upended in a 26-9 setback to the No. 15 Bowdoin Bears on Tuesday night.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
EMERSON
Burns: four goals
Birk Swan: three assists
Four with three ground balls
Josh DeMattos & Aedan Kiniry: one caused turnover
FACE OFFS
James Toomy (5-17) ; Tyler King (8-17) ; Toby Cunningham (0-1)
GOALIE
Connor Nydegger: 21 goals allowed on 33 shots with 12 saves through 45 minutes
Elijah Turbow: five goals allowed on eight shots with three saves through 15 minutes minutes
BOWDOIN
Patrick Fitzgerald: five goals
Will Byrne: four goals, two assists
Jason Lach: four goals
Ethan Barnard: seven ground balls
Nate Ryan: two caused turnovers
FACE OFFS
Ethan Barnard (16-25) ; Pat Murdock (5-9) ; Jake Phillips (1-1)
GOALIES
Robert Hobbs: six goals allowed on 12 shots with six saves through 45 minutes
Hunter Steele: three goals allowed on four shots with one save through 15 minutes
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Burns put in his first goal nearly three minutes into the first quarter and gave Emerson the early 1-0 lead. Bowdoin responded with the next seven goals, which included two from Byrne, to take the outright 7-1 lead at 3:20.
- Swan and sophomore Benson Offit potted a pair of goals within 36 seconds apart to inch Emerson back within four at 7-3 with 1:02 left in the first.
- Byrne rounded out his hat trick at the 12 second mark and pushed the Lions' deficit to five at 8-3 entering the second.
- The second quarter saw Emerson get outscored, 8-1, as Bowdoin bumped their lead into double-figures at 16-4.
- Emerson's lone goal came at 6:12 when Burns buried his second tally, which put the game back in single digits before Fitzgerald rang off three consecutive goals in the final five minutes of the half.
- Bowdoin saw three more goals find the back of the net to start the third before Burns registered his third marker at 5:52. Another pair of Bowdoin tallies were recorded from 4:36 to 3:56 to put the score at 21-5.
- With less than two minutes left in the third, senior Nicholas Fulgione sent in the sixth Lions goal and their second of the quarter at 1:48.
- Emerson and Bowdoin traded off goals through the entirety of the fourth frame as the Lions got tallies from Fulgione, Offit and Burns as the visitors were handed the 26-9 setback.
UP NEXT
- Emerson make their way across town on Saturday, April 22nd to take on MIT at 4:00 p.m.
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