ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Lynn University men's lacrosse team took a 10-1 lead in the first half and never looked back on its way to 16-5 victory over Quincy, Saturday afternoon. The win evens the Fighting Knights record 2-2 overall.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- Lynn outshot QU (47-30) and had more shots on goal (32-22)
- The Fighting Knights finished 27-of-28 clears and caused nine turnovers
- The Fighting Knights never lost the lead throughout the entire game
- Lynn opened the scoring with a 2-0 lead at 12:31 with graduate student
Thomas Murray and junior
Connor Houston finding the net
- QU scored 30 seconds later to narrow it to 2-1
- Graduate student
Scott Friant scored a goal at 9:11 and assisted the next goal at 7:51 to make it 4-1
- Junior
Tyler Van Wart and graduate students
Jalen Stanton and
Joseph Michalski closed the scoring in the first quarter for a 7-1 lead after one
- Murray opened the second quarter with a goal at 13:53, assisted by graduate student
Brian Hoskins
- Freshman
Will Harris scored with 6:06 left in the second to make it 9-1
- Harris then assisted junior
Edward Downey at 3:49 to set the score at 10-1 at the half
- The Fighting Knights had 20 shots on goal in the first half
- In the third quarter, Houston scored the Fighting Knights 11th goal with 13:36 to play
- Quincy shorted the gap to 11-5 with 7:09 on the clock in the third
- Hoskins and graduate student
Fisher Williams closed the quarter with a goal each for a 13-5 edge
- Hoskins opened the scoring in the fourth quarter (13:31) with his second tally to make it 14-5
- Sophomore
Connor Zombro and freshman
Mitch Rini scored the final two goals of the game (9:07 and 2:22) for Lynn to set the final at 16-5
FIGHTING KNIGHT STATS:
- Houston, Hoskins, Zombro and Murray each finished with two goals scored
- Rini and Harris each scored their first collegiate goals
- Friant assisted four goals and scored one
- Sophomore goalkeeper
Tristan Lenard had 16 saves in the game – his second highest this season
- Junior
Camren Santos was 6-of-9 (66.6%) on face-offs with three ground balls
UP NEXT:
- Lynn faces Maryville next Monday at 12:00 pm
