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MANCHESTER, N.H. - No. 1 Le Moyne College broke open what
had been a one-goal game at halftime with five unanswered goals in
the third quarter to lead the Dolphins to a 11-5 Northeast-10 men's
lacrosse victory over Southern New Hampshire University Saturday
afternoon at Larkin Field. Le Moyne remained unbeaten on the
season at 13-0 and 9-0 in the NE-10, while the Penmen finish the
regular season 4-9 and 4-5 in the league.
Despite the loss, the Penmen still
have earned a berth into the six-team Northeast-10 Tournament by
virtue of Pace's 12-6 loss to Bentley Saturday. Southern New
Hampshire will be either the No. 5 or No. 6 seed and will travel
for a first-round game on Tuesday, April 28. It marks SNHU's
first NE-10 Tournament appearance since 2006.
Jack Harmatuk led Le Moyne with
three goals and an assist, while Brian Welch totaled three
goals. Matt Chadderdon had a pair of goals for the Dolphins,
while Brooks Robinson, Sean Connors and Brian Orlando all had
single tallies. Andrew Brown (Marshfield,
MA) led SNHU with two goals, while Keith Merluzzo
(Billerica, MA) and Dustin Latham (Penacook, NH)
each totaled a goal and an assist. Terrence
Nash (Oceanside, NY) had the other Penmen goal.
Nash gave SNHU a 1-0 lead 1:52 into
the game when he converted a feed from Sean Ball
(Salem, NH). Chadderdon would tie the game for Le Moyne with
5:08 left in the first quarter and Welch put the Dolphins up 2-1
with 1:49 left in the frame. It took the Penmen just 15
seconds to tie the score, as after a Gary McKay
(Billerica, MA) faceoff with, Brown converted a pass from Latham to
tie the score after one.
Le Moyne got man-advantage goals
from Harmatuk at 4:37 and Chadderdon with 4:59 left in the second
quarter to go up 4-2, but the Penmen would cut the advantage to one
37 seconds before intermission when Latham scored a man-up goal on
a pass from Merluzzo. After halftime, the Dolphins took the
lead for good 1:01 in on a Welch extra-man goal, and shutout the
Penmen while scoring five times to take a 9-3 lead. The
guests extended their lead to 11-3 with the first two goals of the
fourth quarter.
Doug McIver played the first 54:04
in goal for Le Moyne and made nine saves before giving way to
Sebastian Baker, who surrendered two goals without a save.
Brendan O'Brien (Hopkinton, MA) made 14 saves for
Southern New Hampshire as the Dolphins outshot the Penmen 45-24.
