BOX SCORE
RAPID REACTION: Head Coach Paul Calkins 

When and Where: April 12, 2016 – Manchester, N.H. (Larkin Field)
Score: Southern New Hampshire University 22, American International College 11
Records: SNHU 6-4 (5-4 Northeast-10 Conference), AIC 0-13 (0-10 Northeast-10 Conference)

Junior Keifer Heckman (Peabody, Mass.) scored a career-high eight goals and handed out three assists for a career-best 11 points to lead Southern New Hampshire University past American International College, 22-11, in Northeast-10 Conference men's lacrosse action at Larkin Field on Tuesday night.

Classmate Daniel Trainor (Billerica, Mass.) added eight points on four goals and four helpers, while senior Cameron Joyce (Braintree, Mass.) scored five times and set up a pair of markers to highlight the Penmen offense. Junior Cameron McGuire (Melrose, Mass.) registered his second consecutive hat trick and sophomore Zach Tanner (Woburn, Mass.) dished out three assists in the triumph.

After the Yellow Jackets jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead 2:21 into the contest, Southern New Hampshire staged a five-goal run to grab control. Joyce netted his first two scores of the night before single tallies by McGuire, Trainor and Heckman made it 5-1 with 7:12 left in the period. AIC stopped the run with a goal at 10:37, but three-straight from McGuire, Trainor and Heckman in the final 2:35 of the first extended the Penmen advantage to 8-2 through 15 minutes of play.

Joyce completed his hat trick less than four minutes into the second and Heckman followed suit with his third with 3:22 to play in the half. A man-up goal off the stick of Eric Overdahl brought the visitors back within seven, but Joyce set up Heckman on the man-advantage for his fourth of the evening to increase the SNHU lead to 11-3 at 13:02. The Yellow Jackets responded with back-to-back goals in a 29-second span to cut the margin to six goals, and the teams went to the break with the score 11-5 in favor of the hosts.

The two teams traded goals to start the second half, with Heckman collecting his fifth at 2:10 before Jack McIntyre potted his second for AIC just under three minutes later. After sophomore Cam Rewucki (Dover, N.H.) pushed the lead back to seven on his third of the season with 9:21 left in the third, the Yellow Jackets used another two-goal spurt to make it 13-8 midway through the quarter. The rest of the stanza belonged to the Penmen, as they scored five times over the final six minutes to put the game out of reach. Heckman started the run at 8:58 before junior Zach Jacobs (Tewksbury, Mass.) unloaded a missile to the top of the cage 1:59 later. Joyce ballooned the lead to 16-9 with 3:38 remaining, and on the ensuing faceoff, senior Ryan Pacheco (Manchester, N.H.) won the draw and raced the length of the field to set up Heckman for his seventh of the game. McGuire closed out the period with his third at 14:35 to make it a 10-goal game heading into the fourth.

Joyce and Heckman sandwiched their final tallies of the night around a Kevin Papineau strike to start the final quarter of regulation before back-to-back markers by Trainor capped the Southern New Hampshire scoring. AIC added a pair of late goals from Overdahl and McIntyre to provide the game's final score.

Junior Tyler Walsh (Northampton, Mass.) improved to 5-0 in goal for the Penmen after making six saves in the game's first 51:45. John Magliano suffered the setback between the pipes for the Yellow Jackets despite turning aside 12 shots in 53:45 of action.

Notes:
- SNHU has now won five-straight games for the first time since the 2008 season. The Penmen knocked off Molly College, AIC, Assumption College, Saint Michael's College and Franklin Pierce University during a stretch that spanned from March 26 through April 9.
- Southern New Hampshire outshot American International College, 54-24, with 36 of its shots going on frame. The Penmen also won the groundball battle, 40-27, and caused 17 turnovers compared to 12 forced errors by the Yellow Jackets.
- Pacheco picked up his first career point on Tuesday, and raked in a team-high six groundballs.
- A total of 11 SNHU student-athletes recorded at least one point, while seven Penmen generated multi-point efforts.

What's Next:
Southern New Hampshire continues Northeast-10 play on Saturday when it heads to Rindge, N.H. to take on Granite State rival Franklin Pierce University (4-6, 3-5 NE-10) at noon.

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