SUWANEE, Ga. - SCAC play opened up the week of March 14-20 as all eight men's lacrosse teams began the journey to the inaugural SCAC men's lacrosse tournament next month at Colorado College. The tournament host Tigers and Birmingham-Southern Panthers opened up the conference slate undefeated.
AROUND THE SCAC
Birmingham-Southern
went 2-1 this week, starting off with a 19-9 neutral-site loss to
Plattsburgh State in Columbia, S.C., before returning home and
getting two decisive conference wins over Millsaps (a 23-0 shutout)
and Hendrix (a 25-10 victory). BSC stays at home this week for two
games, taking on Fontbonne University, Thursday, and Oglethorpe on
Saturday.
Centre competed in its first conference game of
the season on Friday, March 18 when they took on Southwestern. The
Pirates were able to beat the Colonels by a score of 12-10. Late in
the game the Colonels tried to make a comeback when they were down
12-8, but the run came up short as they were only able to cut
Southwestern’s lead in half. The Colonels made it a 12-10
game with 2:46 left on the clock and they had a few shot attempts,
but they were unable to find the back of the cage. Both teams had
33 shots in the game and Centre had the 31-24 advantage in
ground-balls. Centre went 15-27 in face-offs and they were 27-29 on
clears. Next up for the Colonels will be a game against conference
opponent Colorado College at home on Monday, March 21.
Carson Christman struck for a pair of goals and set up two other
scores as Colorado College used a balanced attack
to post a 12-5 victory at Sewanee in the conference opener for both
teams on Saturday. Charles Curtis and James Mauk recorded two goals
and an assist, while Jack Kreitler and Moses Taylor each found the
net twice. The Tigers grabbed a 4-0 lead when Kreitler notched his
first marker with 5:04 remaining in the first period, but Sewanee
to cut its deficit to one goal midway through the second period.
Kreitler and Mauk gave CC a 6-4 advantage, only to see Sewanee
score 56 seconds later to trim its deficit to 6-4 after 30 minutes.
But that was as close as the hosts would get. Colorado College
exploded for six consecutive goals in the second half and did not
allow Sewanee to get on the scoreboard until it found the net in
the closing seconds. Christman and Will Harris scored 11 seconds
apart during the early stages of the third period and Taylor added
his second score just over five minutes later. CC sealed the
victory with three man-up goals in the fourth period. Zach Steedman
made five saves while going the distance between the pipes. The
Tigers visit Centre on Monday, and then bus to The College of
Wooster in Northwest Ohio for the final stop on its three-game
Spring Break Trip.
Hendrix split two games during the week as the
Warriors opened up the conference portion of their 2011 schedule.
The Warriors earned the program’s first-ever conference win
by beating Oglethorpe on the road, 11-5 before dropping a 25-10
decision at Birmingham-Southern. Hendrix’s Jeff Appleton
scored two goals in the first two periods to help the Warriors jump
out to a 5-0 lead over the Oglethorpe. Hendrix took a 6-2 lead into
the half before earning the 11-5 win. Clayton Cersonsky tallied
three goals and an assist in the win. Birmingham-Southern proved
too much as the Panthers exploded for seven goals in the third to
break open a 14-6 halftime advantage on the way to the 25-10 win.
David Davis Jr. paced the Warrior offense by scoring four goals on
six shots. Dan Fox added three goals and Ben Nelson chipped in with
two goals in the loss. Hendrix returns to action on March 21
playing at Hanover (Ind.) before hosting Millsaps on Friday, March
25.
Millsaps continued to search for the program's
first win this week, falling on the road to Birmingham-Southern and
Oglethorpe. Friday's game at BSC was a lopsided affair, with the
Panthers getting the shutout, 23-0. Sunday's meeting with
Oglethorpe was much closer but still unsuccessful as the Majors
fell 12-7 to the Petrels. Hunter Stevison had four of the Majors'
seven against Oglethorpe, including two in the second quarter. The
Majors will travel to Conway on Friday for a match with Hendrix
before finally returning home for a noon meeting with Fontbonne
University at Harper Davis Field.
Oglethorpe its first three matches on campus this
past week, posting a 1-2 record. The Petrels were humbled 22-3 by a
dominant Carthage College squad in their home opener on Wednesday
but recovered to split a pair of SCAC matches over the weekend
against Hendrix (L, 11-5) and Millsaps (W, 12-7). Against the
Warriors on Friday, Hendrix struck three times in the first quarter
and added two more tallies before Michael Kasmarik finally put the
Petrels on the board with a goal with 8:30 to play in the second.
Dustin Carnahan added the first of his team-high three tallies with
5:06 left in the half to make the score 6-2 at the break. On Sunday
the Petrels notched their first SCAC win in school history by
knocking off Millsaps, 12-7. The Majors jumped out to an early 2-1
lead but the Petrels rattled off three straight goals spanning into
the second quarter to take command and go on to notch the historic
victory. The Petrels are now 2-3 on the season and will travel to
face Birmingham-Southern next Saturday.
Sewanee opened the conference portion of its
schedule with a weekend split, falling 12-5 to Colorado College
before topping Southwestern, 10-5. Against the Tigers, Sewanee fell
behind early and could never recover, as the visitors walked away
with the victory. Jack Thomasson notched two goals for the Tigers,
while Will Grimes, Marty Johnson, and Reed Daniel each added one.
Teddy Peterson finished the day 9 of 19 on face-offs. Spencer
Graves tallied nine saves in taking the loss. Against the Pirates,
freshman Davis Brown broke open for five goals as the Tigers took
home their first conference victory of the season. Graves and Tommy
Healy split time in goal, with Graves picking up three saves to
Healy’s four. The Tigers held a 52-25 edge in shots and a
41-23 edge in groundballs over the Pirates. With the weekend split,
the Tigers are now 2-5 on the season and 1-1 in the conference.
Sewanee is back in action on Saturday when they play host to Ohio
Wesleyan at 2 p.m.
Southwestern opened up conference action this
week after hosting nationally-ranked RPI at home on Tuesday. The
Pirates went 1-2 this week to move to 4-6 on the season, 1-1 in the
SCAC. RPI wasted no time getting on the board and scored off the
first two faceoffs and then mounted a 14-0 lead before SU got on
the board. Southwestern out-scored the Engineers in the fourth
quarter but fell 18-3. SCAC play opened for the Pirates on Friday
at Centre and in a close, thrilling match Southwestern pulled out
the win. Edward Williams started the scoring off for Southwestern,
assisted by Luther Faulk, just two minutes into the game. The
Pirates never trailed the rest of the way. Centre attempted a
comeback after Thomas Mock scored SU's 12th goal with just over 10
minutes to play, scoring two goals within a minute of each other to
pull within two, 10-12, but Southwestern stopped the attack to earn
the win. Sunday saw the Pirates face Sewanee on the Southwestern
defense came ready to play, holding the Tigers to just three goals
in the first half. A five goal third put Sewanee up by seven, 8-1,
and the Pirates' comeback fell short as they dropped the contest
10-5. Southwestern has a much needed off week this week and returns
to action on April 2nd to face Colorado College in Jackson,
Miss.
For the complete SCAC Men's Lax Weekly for Week 4,
click here.
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