Box Score BOX SCORE
When and Where: April 30, 2016 – Worcester, Mass. (Multi-Sport Stadium)
Score: Assumption College 15, Southern New Hampshire University 10
Records: SNHU 9-5 (7-4 Northeast-10), Assumption 3-11 (3-8 Northeast-10)
Senior Cameron Joyce (Braintree, Mass.) scored twice to become the third Southern New Hampshire University men's lacrosse player to amass 200 career points, but a six-goal third quarter pushed Bentley University past the Penmen, 15-10, in Northeast-10 Conference action at the Multi-Sport Stadium.
Joyce joins Mike Cesere '02 and Chuck Monturio '97 as the only members of the 200-point club. Cesere registered 252 points during his four seasons in a Penmen uniform while Monturio compiled 232.
The two teams were deadlocked through the first 15 minutes of play after exchanging goals in the opening quarter. The Greyhounds cracked the scoring just over four minutes into the contest before junior Keifer Heckman (Peabody, Mass.) knotted it at one at 6:15. After Travis Reid pushed the hosts back in front by one with 6:23 to play in the first, Heckman again answered for the Penmen 3:21 later.
The second quarter belonged to Southern New Hampshire, as it found the back of the net four times and built a two-goal cushion. Joyce opened the scoring with his 48th 1:15 into the period and after Dan Matisoff potted a man-up marker for the Greyhounds, sophomore Khyan Gaddy (Albany, N.Y.) tallied his third of the year with just over three minutes left in the first half. Heckman completed his hat trick off a feed from sophomore Devin Calkins (Bow, N.H.) at 12:31 to make it a 5-3 Penmen advantage before sophomore Corey Cairo (Wading River, N.Y.) followed another Assumption strike with his eighth of 2016, and sent the teams to the locker room with SNHU out front, 6-4.
The Greyhounds took control of the game in the third with a pair of three-goal runs that added up to a 6-1 advantage in the quarter and a 10-7 lead overall. Reid set up the first goal of the frame for Patrick O'Brien 55 seconds in before he recorded back-to-back goals of his own at 2:21 and 2:38. Cairo stopped the run with just under 12 minutes to go in the stanza, O'Brien netted his second of the period before Mike Curcio and Dan Farrell rounded out the scoring.
After Farrell started the fourth with his second of the evening, Joyce deposited his second and 49th of the year to make it 11-8. Calkins trimmed the deficit to a pair with 6:40 left in regulation, but Assumption closed out the remaining six minutes by recording four of the game's final five scores to provide the final margin of victory.
Junior Tyler Walsh (Northampton, Mass.) suffered his first setback of the season between the pipes for the Penmen after turning aside nine shots in 56 minutes of action. Heckman totaled a team-high five points on four goals and an assist, while Calkins etched his name onto the scoresheet three times on a goal and two helpers.
Notes:
- Southern New Hampshire had its program-best eight-game win streak snapped. The Penmen had not lost a game before Saturday since March 26 against Le Moyne College.
- Joyce has now compiled 83 points this season on 49 goals and 34 assists.
- Assumption controlled the faceoff battle on Saturday, as it emerged victorious in 17-of-26 trips to the X.
What's Next:
Southern New Hampshire will host the first playoff game in school history on Tuesday (May 3) when it welcomes Pace University (11-5, 7-4 NE-10) to Larkin Field for a 7 p.m. tilt.
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