When and Where: March 29, 2025 – Garden City, N.Y. (Motamed Field)
Score: #1/2 Adelphi University 27, Southern New Hampshire 5
Records:  SNHU 3-5 (1-2 NE10), Adelphi 10-0 (4-0 NE10)

Southern New Hampshire University Men's Lacrosse knew it had a difficult assignment on Saturday at #1/2 Adelphi University.  The Panthers remained unbeaten with the win on Saturday in Garden City, N.Y.  

STANDOUT PERFORMERS

• Redshirt freshman Ryan Dzierzgowski (Longmeadow, Mass.) - 2 caused turnovers, ground ball
• Senior Gavin Kostandin (Exeter, N.H.) - man-up goal
• Freshman PJ Cunningham (Bronx, N.Y.) - goal, ground ball
• Sophomore Sean Dwyer (Ballston Spa, N.Y.) - goal
• Redshirt freshman Nate Pedrick (Londonderry, N.H.) - goal
• Freshman Blake Wozniak (Garden Grove, Calif.) - goal
• Redshirt freshman Joey Gallo (Derry, N.H.) - 2 assists

KEY MOMENTS

• Kostandin's man-up goal came with 8:11 to play in the first period and Gallo earned the assist.
• Cunningham also scored an unassisted goal in the first quarter.
• Pedrick scored with 5:05 to play in the half.
• Dwyer scored the first goal of the second half with an assist to junior Aiden Blouin (Barre, Vt.).
• Wozniak scored in a man-up situation at 12:36 of the fourth quarter, assisted by Gallo.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Michael Durnin (5 G, 3 A), Noah Gibson (6 G, 1 A), and Braden Donnellan (1 G, 5 A) led the Panthers.
• Adelphi had a 61-16 shot advantage and won clears 11-13 vs. 11-21 for the Penmen.
• Adelphi had a 54-34 edge on ground balls and won 23 of 36 face-offs.
• SNHU went 2-for-3 in extra-man opportunities while the Panthers were 0-for-3.
• The Penmen started sophomore Matt Roy (North Andover, Mass.) in net.  Senior Patrick Cassidy (No. Chelmsford, Mass.) and junior John Batchelor (Longmeadow, Mass.) also played.  The trio combined to make 12 saves.

NOTES

• Adelphi entered the game ranked #1 in the Inside Lacrosse Poll and #2 in the USILA/Blatant Lacrosse Coaches Poll.  
• The Panthers have won 13 consecutive Northeast-10 Conference games and have outscored all opponents 194-60 this season.
• Adelphi has won all 16 meetings with SNHU in Men's Lacrosse.

UP NEXT

• The Penmen will play a third consecutive nationally ranked team when they visit #13/15 Bentley University on Wednesday.
• The next home game will be on Saturday April 5 against Pace University.  Game time is 2:00 p.m.

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