Box Score

Highlights | Interview with Coach Peluso

HOBOKEN, N.J. (April 24, 2013) – Nine different players scored goals and six had multiple points as the 11th-ranked Stevens Institute of Technology men's lacrosse team moved to 11-3 overall and 5-1 in the Empire 8 with a 19-11 win over Hartwick College Wednesday night at the De Baun Athletic Complex.
 
Stevens will host Ithaca College in its regular-season finale Saturday at 2 p.m. A win would lock up the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Empire 8 Tournament slated to begin one week from today.
 
Senior midfielder Nicolas Philippi (Mullica Hill, N.J.) started a 10-goal first half for the Ducks less than one minute into the action, and after the Hawks tied the game at one apiece, markers from freshman midfielder Zachary Raposo (Tewksbury, N.J.) and senior midfielder Rich Dupras (Hillsborough, N.J.) gave the Ducks a 3-1 edge.
 
Hartwick closed the gap to one, but Stevens ran off three-straight tallies to bridge the first and second quarters, opening up a 6-2 lead with 14:14 to play in quarter number two. Junior attack Charlie Cronin (Northampton, Mass.), senior midfielder Harrison Dorne (Morristown, N.J.) and sophomore attack Michael Maroon (Virginia Beach, Va.) had the goals with Maroon picking up an assist as well.
 
Hartwick notched a pair, fighting back within two (6-4), but the Ducks rang the bell four-straight times to push their lead to 10-4 and eventually settled on a five-goal margin at the intermission. Freshman Connor O'Shea (Ridgewood, N.J.), Cronin, Dorne and Cronin again pocketed the goals.
 
Philippi started the third much like the first to get the Stevens lead back to six, but the Hawks did not go down quietly, getting a pair to close within four with 10:22 to play in the quarter.
 
For the next 11:11 of game time it was all Stevens as the Ducks sealed the win, scoring six of the game's next seven tallies to open a 17-8 lead with 10:49 on the clock. O'Shea, Dorne twice, freshman Matt Ferentini (South Salem, N.Y.), Dupras and Philippi all scored, and O'Shea added two assists.
 
Sophomore Matthew Deiner (Millstone Township, N.J.) earned the win in goal for Stevens with seven stops to improve to 10-3 on the year.
 
The Stevens ride made a major difference in this game as Hartwick converted just 7-of-21 clears, and the man-down unit kept Hartwick at a 2-for-7 conversion rate. The Ducks earned a 44-40 margin in ground balls and a 56-32 edge in shots, also finishing the game plus-17 in turnovers (26-9).
 
O'Shea led Stevens with six points on three goals and three assists along with three ground balls and two caused turnovers. Dorne had four goals, while Cronin had three. Philippi tallied three times and handed out one assist, with Dupras netting a pair. Maroon had a goal, two assists and four ground balls. Freshman defender Tim Fair (West Deptford, N.J.) had two caused turnovers and three ground balls, and fellow rookie Troy Gassaway (Severna Park, Md.) had two ground balls and two caused turnovers. Senior midfielder Brian Seldeen (Wayne, N.J.) picked up four ground balls, and freshman midfielder Brett Incollingo (Yardley, Pa.) scooped up five. Incollingo also won 13-of-22 face-offs he took.
 
The Hawks (5-8, 1-5 E8) were led by five tallies from junior midfielder Zach Gropper (Syosset, N.Y.).
 
All of Saturday's action can be seen live at www.Empire8.TV starting at 1 p.m. Prior to the opening face-off, Stevens will honor its senior class as part of Senior Day. It will also be Spring Sports Day 2013.
 
Tickets to the game are $4 and all Stevens students, faculty and staff can watch free with a valid ID.