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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (March 26, 2011) – The Vassar College men's lacrosse team fought back from a 5-2 third quarter deficit to come within one goal, 6-5, with six minutes to play, but the Brewers couldn't mount enough extra offense, falling to Farmingdale State, 7-5, under blustery conditions at Weinberg Field on Saturday afternoon.

Powered by a three-goal effort by senior attack Wes Hubschmitt, the visiting Rams took a 2-2 game at halftime and built a 5-2 lead with 5:19 to play in the third quarter. Behind back-to-back goals from junior attack Jack Gross, the Brewers closed within one goal – at 5-4 and 6-5 – but were never able to draw even, as Farmingdale State responded with a goal of its own each time Vassar drew close.

The loss drops the Brewers to 2-4, while Farmingdale State improves to 3-4. Vassar opens Liberty League play next Saturday, April 2 with a home contest against Clarkson at 2:00 p.m. Farmingdale returns to action at home next Saturday against Mount St. Mary at 3:00 p.m.

Hubschmitt was the catalyst for Farmingdale State. With his team leading 3-2 at the end of the second quarter, he scored back-to-back goals 58 seconds apart – at 6:17 and 5:19 of the third quarter – to push the Rams ahead 5-2.

The Brewers were able to score the game's next two goals, one from freshman Max Herman off a point blank shot past Farmingdale junior goalie Patrick Delventhal, and the other from Gross off a nifty spin move in the crease, to bring Vassar within 5-4.

Hubschmitt answered at the 8:58 mark of the fourth quarter off a pretty feed from junior midfielder Shannon Robinson for a 6-4 lead. Gross scored his second unassisted goal on a similar goal as his first with 6:14 to play. The Rams squashed Vassar's comeback effort just 36 second later, however, when Robinson notched his fourth goal of the season past Vassar freshman goalie Andrew Nicol.

At one stage of the game, Farmingdale State had built a 26-9 advantage in shots, but the Brewers came alive in the third and fourth quarters with a 21-8 advantage, but only notched three goals to show for the effort.

Nicol made all of his eight saves in the first two quarters. Delventhal made 10 of his 11 stops in the third and fourth quarters.