Box Score
St. Mary's City, Md. – Senior
midfielder Ryan Alexander (Laurel, Md./St. Vincent
Pallotti), a four-time All-Capital Athletic Conference selection,
finished up his stellar four-year career with three goals and an
assist as the St. Mary's College of Maryland men's
lacrosse team posted a 16-5 non-conference victory over Christopher
Newport University in the season finale for both squads on a
beautiful Saturday afternoon.
With Saturday's win, the Seahawks (10-6) finished with
their first 10-win season since 2007 when St. Mary's notched
a 12-6 overall record and advanced to the Capital Athletic
Conference championship game. Today's victory also gave
the Seahawks an undefeated mark at Seahawk Stadium as St.
Mary's notched a 7-0 record at home.
Joining Alexander with three goals and an
assist as well was junior attackman Dennis Rosson
(Severna Park, Md./Severn). Rosson finished
his third campaign with St. Mary's with team-highs of 42
goals and 60 points. Senior midfielder Chad McCarthy (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) had a solid final
game as a Seahawk with a goal and an assist.
Sophomore attackman Michael Mules (Ellicott
City, Md./Boys' Latin) contributed to the Seahawk offense
with a hat trick while junior midfielder Bobby Cooke (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) added a pair.
St. Mary's dominated the first period opening up the game
on a 4-0 run as four different Seahawks scored.
Rosson gave his team a 5-0 lead at 13:47 in the
second quarter before sophomore attackman Zach
Hill (Salisbury, Md./Parkside) finally broke through for
Christopher Newport with an unassisted goal just nine second
later. Unfazed, SMCM tacked on four more to head into
intermission with a 9-1 advantage.
Hill finished with three goals and an assist to
pace the Captains (7-9).
The Seahawks doubled up on CNU in the third stanza, 4-2, as
Mules, Rosson,
Cooke, and junior midfielder Will Bell (Baltimore, Md./Calvert Hall) all found the back of
the net. St. Mary's edged the visitors in the final
period, 3-2, as Alexander scored twice, including
finishing a feed from McCarthy with 12 seconds
left in the game.
The Seahawks outshot CNU, 53-26, while outhustling the Captains,
52-33, on ground balls as junior defenseman Sean Hatley (Harwood, Md./Spalding) and first-year midfielder
Albert Mitchell (Shrewsbury, Mass./Saint
John's) combined for 13 loose ball pickups. CNU edged
St. Mary's in face-offs (13-of-25) as freshman midfielder
Ari Elgort (Charlottesville, Va./Albemarle) was
7-of-10 for the Captains.
The Seahawk goalkeeping staff [juniors Stu Wheeler (Baltimore, Md./St. Paul's) and Pat Simpson (Arnold, Md./Broadneck) and first-years
Nick Beardsley (Monkton, Md./Saint James) and
Ben Wheeler (Jefferson, Md./Brunswick)] combined
for 12 saves while CNU's first-year Andy
McGregor (Springfield, Va./West Springfield) made 15 saves
in the first three periods before being replaced by Bryant
Strong.
During Alexander's four-year tenure and
throughout the careers of senior defenseman Ryder Henry (Washington, D.C./St. John's College) and
McCarthy as well as that of two-year student
assistant coach Ben Craft (Towson, Md./McDonogh
School), the Seahawks have posted a four-year mark of 37-27 (20-9
CAC), advancing to the CAC final in 2007 and to the semifinals the
past two seasons.
