West Hartford, CT – The Vassar College Men's Lacrosse team got back into the win column Wednesday evening following an 11-8 road win at the University of Hartford.
Troy Santise (Washington Township, NJ) led the team with six points and junior goalie
Drew Quinn (Garden City, NY) turned aside 16 shots in the victory.
Vassar improves to 6-2 overall on the season with the victory, while Hartford slips to 2-4 through six contests.
How It Happened
- Vassar outscored Hartford 5-2 in the opening 15 minutes, scoring the first four goals of the contest.
- Ian Zumpano (Towson, MD) completed a hat trick just over nine minutes into the game with Santise closing the opening surge with a goal and a helper.
- Anderson Eads (Brightwaters, NY) scored the Brewers' fifth goal of the quarter and finished the opening period with a goal and an assist.
- Vassar stifled Hartford in the second frame, scoring four of the five goals in the quarter.
- Santise scored two goals in the second frame and assisted on Zumpano's fourth goal of the contest with 3:38 left before halftime to send Vassar into the break holding a 9-3 lead.
- Shots over the opening 30 minutes were even at 19-19.
- Hartford held a 9-5 advantage in face-offs in the first half and a 17-8 edge in groundballs.
- The Hawks blanked Vassar in the third period 3-0 and pushed their scoring run to four goals on a Jake Ojert tally in the first minute of the final frame to slice the Brewers' lead to 9-7.
- Dan Negron (Mahwah, NJ) and Nate Johnson (Brentwood, TN) scored just under two minutes apart in the middle of the fourth quarter to push the lead back to 11-7.
- Aidan Ezra cashed in the final goal of the game for Hartford with 70 seconds left to play to make the score the final three-goal decision.
For The Brewers
- Zumpano finished the contest with four goals, moving his season total in markers to 17.
- Santise scored three times and assisted on three other goals, pushing his team lead in helpers to 22 and points to 35.
- First Year Gavin Arcuri (Westhampton, NY) assisted on four goals for the Brewers.
- Eads and Johnson each finished with a goal and an assist with Eads adding a pair of caused turnovers.
- Solomon Hess (Brewster, NY) forced two turnovers and picked up a groundball.
- Matteo Roman (Arlington, VA) led the team with three groundballs.
- Eli Sherman (San Francisco, CA) won five face-offs and collected a groundball.
- Quinn matched his season-high with 16 saves in goal, adding two caused turnovers and a groundball for the Brewers.
For The Hawks
- Ezra finished with a hat trick.
- Ojert scored twice for Hartford.
- Caleb Levasseur collected eight groundballs and caused two turnovers.
- Cameron James went 12-for-16 in face-offs and secured six groundballs.
- Andrew Leibold and Christopher Ledwick split the game in goal for Hartford with each goalie making seven saves.
Game Statistics
- Vassar outshot Hartford 35-34 in the contest.
- Hartford closed the night winning 14 of the 22 face-offs taken.
- Groundballs went to the Hawks 23-13.
- Vassar finished 21-for-26 in clearing opportunities.
- Hartford went 12-for-22 in clears.
What's Next
- Vassar continues Liberty League play against Ithaca at home on Saturday.
- Hartford is off until it hosts Nichols on April 3.
