Box Score
St. Mary's City, Md. – The St. Mary's
College of Maryland men's lacrosse will get a second shot at No. 3
Stevenson University in the semifinals of the 2010 Capital Athletic
Conference Men's Lacrosse Tournament as the third-seeded Seahawks
eliminated sixth-seeded Wesley College, 13-8, in first-round action
on a windy Sunday afternoon. St. Mary's (9-5) will face No. 2
seed Stevenson in Owings Mills on Wednesday, April 24 in semifinal
action at 4:00 pm.
Sophomore midfielder Billy
Scheurer (Telford, Pa./Souderton Area) finished the
afternoon with a career-high three goals to pace the Seahawks while
first-year midfielder Patrick Mull
(Fallston, Md./Fallston) dished out four assists. Attackmen
Dennis
Rosson (Severna Park, Md./Severn) and Michael Mules
(Ellicott City, Md./Boys' Latin) contributed two goals as well.
Wesley (3-11) staked an early lead in the first period, edging
the Seahawks, 2-1. Midfielders Nick Piscano
(Kings Park, N.Y./Kings Park) and Eric Crumbock
(Levittown, Pa./Truman) both netted goals to give the Wolverines a
2-0 margin at 7:16. Rosson notched a man-up
goal at 1:11 to avoid the shutout.
St. Mary's responded in the second quarter with seven goals as
the Seahawks outscored Wesley, 7-2, picking up the quarter's first
six goals. Scheurer scored twice in nearly a
minute to boost his team's lead to 5-2 at 11:53. Wesley
netted a pair in the final six minutes to head into intermission
with an 8-4 deficit.
Piscano notched three goals to lead the Wesley
offense while Crumbock and junior attackman
Justin D'Alonzo (Prospect Park, Pa./Interboro)
both added two.
Things were even in the third with each side finding the back of
the net three times, including Piscano's
unassisted goal with 44 seconds left to pull Wesley within
11-7. Rosson and Mules
sandwiched D'Alonzo's 19th goal of the season in
the fourth stanza for the 13-8 final.
First-year midfielder Albert
Mitchell (Shrewsbury, Mass./Saint John's) won 11-of-20
face-offs and scooped up eight loose balls to help the Seahawks
post a 35-23 advantage in ground balls while St. Mary's outshot the
Wolverines 46-24.
Junior Stu Wheeler
(Baltimore, Md./St. Paul's) made three stops through three quarters
of play in picking up his eighth win of the season.
First-year Matt Ryan (Tinton Falls, N.J./Red Bank
Catholic) picked up seven saves in the loss.
