Box Score Clinton, N.Y. - Senior Luke Sadoff scored four goals to lead the
Hamilton College Continentals to a 9-7 win over the visiting
Trinity College Bantams in a New England Small College
Athletic Conference (NESCAC) men's lacrosse game at Steuben Field
this afternoon. Trinity, ranked No. 15 in the
nation, drops to 8-5 overall and 6-3 in the NESCAC, while
Hamilton improves to 8-5 overall and finishes 5-5 in the NESCAC
with its seventh win in eight games. The Continentals lead the
all-time series 2-1. The teams last played in 2001.
Henry Burchenal added two goals, while Connor Morgan
posted one goal and one assist, and Bryan Hopper and Luke Walsh
scored the other Hamilton goals. Paul Citarella scooped up a
game-high seven ground balls and won 12 of 19 faceoffs. Burchenal,
Clarke and Mike Fiacco collected five ground balls apiece, and
Fiacco and Baylis Treen each caused three turnovers. Max Vaickus
'12 made 10 saves in goal. Junior midfielder Nick
Shaheen (Williamsburg, Mass.) led the Bantam offense with
two goals. Junior attackmen Rob Nogueras and Jeff Hebert (Cornwall,
Ontario) and freshman James O'Connell (Middleton,
Mass.) posted one goal and one assist apiece. Freshman
Charles Finnegan and junior T.J. Cholnoky (Greenwich, Conn.) each
picked up three ground balls, and senior captain defenseman Alex
Gottsch (Sparks, Md.) caused three turnovers. Senior captain
Peter Johnson (Riverside, Conn.) stopped 12 shots in net.
Hamilton held a 46-39 shot advantage, and was credited with 47
ground balls to Trinity's 28. The Continentals went 3-for-6 with
the extra man. Trinity converted 2 of 8 man-up opportunities.
Cohen and Nogueras sandwiched a pair of unassisted tallies
around a man-up goal by Hebert, and the Bantams led 3-0 with 10:28
remaining in the first quarter. Morgan put Hamilton on the
board with a man-up goal with 7:54 left in the first while Trinity
served a three-minute penalty for using illegal equipment.
Burchenal pulled the Continentals to within 3-2 with a man-up goal
at 1:40. O'Connell scored an unassisted goal to put Trinity
ahead 4-2 with 6:57 left in the second quarter. But Sadoff scored
his first goal of the game at 4:39 and Hopper tallied with 2:24
left to tie the score. The teams were deadlocked at 4 at the
break.
Sadoff found the back of the net at 8:34 of the third to give
Hamilton its first lead at 5-4. Hebert fed Houck for a goal with
6:17 left in the third to tie the score again. Burchenal's
goal off an assist from Morgan with 4:20 remaining in the third
gave Hamilton the lead for good. Walsh scored an unassisted goal
with 13:13 to play to stretch the Continentals' lead to 7-5.
Trinity pulled within 7-6 on a goal by Shaheen off an assist from
Growney with 11:38 to play. After Sadoff scored an unassisted goal
at 10:16, Shaheen again found the back of the net with 5:49 to
play. Sadoff closed the scoring with 2:10 left off an assist from
Armideo for the final margin.
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