Box Score
St. Mary's City, Md. – Sophomore
attackman Michael Mules (Ellicott City, Md./Boys'
Latin) registered his second consecutive game with five goals as
Mules paced the St. Mary's College of
Maryland men's lacrosse team to a 16-2 victory over Hood
College in Capital Athletic Conference action Saturday
afternoon. Mules matched his career-high of
five goals from Wednesday's 20-9 win over Wesley College.
Eleven different players scored for St. Mary's (6-3, 3-0
CAC) as junior attackman Dennis Rosson (Severna
Park, Md./Severn) contributed five points as well with two goals
and three assists. Attackmen Chris Becraft
(Rockville, Md./Good Counsel) and Sean Reitenbach
(Westminster, Md./Winters Mill) and senior midfielder Chad
McCarthy (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) each chipped in a
goal and an assist.
Mules notched four goals in a four-minute span
to hand the Seahawks a 7-1 advantage after the first period.
Hood's leading scorer, junior attackman Dominique
Shorter (Baltimore, Md./Lansdowne), helped the Blazers
avoid the shutout in the first quarter with a man-up goal with 41
seconds left.
The Seahawks outscored Hood (6-6, 0-3 CAC), 4-0 in the second
stanza as Rosson tallied a goal and an assist in
the run.
Shorter finished the afternoon with a goal and
an assist while first-year attackman Alex Engler
(Sykesville, Md./Century) picked up Hood's other goal.
Junior midfielder Chris Edge (Chestertown,
Md./St. Andrew's School [Del.]) netted the only goal in the
third period as Edge completed a feed from junior
midfielder Will Bell (Baltimore, Md./Calvert Hall)
to give the Seahawks a 12-1 advantage after three.
McCarthy had a goal and an assist as the
Seahawks scored the first four goals of the last quarter, including
two in 20 seconds, before Engler found the back of
the net at 2:30.
The Seahawks controlled the face-offs with a 16-of-21 effort as
first-year Albert Mitchell (Shrewsbury,
Mass./Saint John's) went 11-of-13 with a game-high seven ground
balls, leading St. Mary's to a 42-19 advantage in ground
balls.
Juniors Stu Wheeler (Baltimore, Md./St. Paul's)
and Pat Simpson (Arnold, Md./Broadneck) and
first-year Nick Beardsley (Monkton, Md./Saint
James School) combined for two saves on nine shots.
Wheeler made one save while
Simpson had the other stop.
St. Mary's outshot the Blazers, 42-9, and first-year
William Lane (Walkersville, Md./Walkersville)
turned away nine shots in the loss.
The Seahawks will begin their three-game road trip next
Wednesday, April 7 as St. Mary's travels to the Eastern Shore
to take on No. 2 Salisbury University in league action at 7:00 pm.
