SELINSGROVE, Pa. - With snow surrounding the field and cool-damp weather effecting the area the eighth-ranked Dickinson men's lacrosse team used a ten-goal first-half to build up an insurmountable lead as the Red and White picked up a 12-7 non-conference road win over Susquehanna University on Wednesday afternoon.
Two early Dickinson turnovers would allow the home team to strike first as Kieran Thomas sent the ball past
Chris Brandau for the 1-0 lead. The Devils were out of sorts early on the offensive end as it took five minutes to record their opening shot when Jozef Korpics said no to both
Sam Campbell and
Matt Thurston. The visitors finally solved the River Hawks keeper with ten minutes off the clock as Brennan Lorence turned the ball over allowing
Owen Porter to rip the rock beyond Korpics for the tie. Three minutes later
Will Farrell found
James Isaacson for the lead, before DC went back to playing "make it, take it" as Centennial Conference Defensive Player of the Week
John McKee won two straight faceoffs resulting in markers from
Ethan Gess and
Ren LaMotte to take a 4-1 advantage into the second.
Once again it would be the hosts who scored first as Thomas beat the goalie for his second of the day. After Korpics had the answer on attempts by Isaacson and Thurston, Isaacson got his revenge with his second pushing it to 5-2 with seven minutes gone. That led to Dickinson not letting Susquehanna see the ball over the next four minutes as the Red and White would build up a 10-2 advantage thanks to tallies from
Sascha Gannon, Campbell, Isaacson, Porter and Thurston all as a result of four faceoff wins from the combination of
Ben Trucksess and McKee. The Hawks claimed some momentum going to the break scoring twice inside the final 60-seconds.
The third quarter would only see one goal when Gannon buried a dish from
Skyler Schluter to make it 11-4. However, the Devils will feel hard done by the fact that they notched just one goal as they outshot the home side 19-4 over the 15-minute segment. The goalies were on full display in the period with Korpics recording nine saves, while Brandau tallied three.
Korpics picked right up where he left off in the third to start the fourth denying Schluter just 33-ticks in, which led to Lorence snapping a shot past Brandau to trim it down to 11-5. The group of
Cole Schwartz, Campbell, Gess, and Thurston fired the next four shots in the game forcing three more stops out of Korpics, before the Hawks took advantage of the energy when Nick Remund made it 11-6. Off the ensuing win at the "X" by McKee, Thurston rang the pipe and Campbell was stopped by Korpics prior to Farrell hitting Gess for the Devs 12th of the day. Susquehanna capped off the scoring in the final half-minute thanks to Lorence to set the 12-7 final.
Red Devil Leaders
Goals - Isaacson (3), Gannon, Gess and Porter (2)
Assists - Campbell and Farrell (2)
Groundballs - McKee (10),
Capp Reynolds and Brandau (4)
Saves - Brandau (9)
River Hawk Leaders
Goals - Lorence (3), Thomas (2)
Assists - Ciccarello (3)
Groundballs - Korpics (8), Rossman and Zaborowski (4)
Saves - Korpics (24)
Next on the Field
Dickinson (2-0) plays their first of two games at the US Lacrosse facility in Sparks, Maryland on Sunday afternoon at 12pm when they battle the Maroons of Roanoke College.
