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Joshua Wesolowski '19

Susquehanna SUS 11-8

Elizabethtown ETOWN 11-7

Susquehanna SUS

11-8

Final

May. 04, 2019

Elizabethtown ETOWN

11-7

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Susquehanna SUS	0	3	1	2	6
Elizabethtown ETOWN	2	4	7	1	14

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | 5/4/2019 9:30:00 PM | Nairem Moran

Tough Third Quarter Downs Susquehanna Men’s Lacrosse in the Landmark Championship

Elizabethtown, Pa. – The quest for the program's third Landmark Conference championship title came up short for the third-seeded Susquehanna University men's lacrosse team Saturday afternoon. Top-seeded and two-time defending champion, Elizabethtown College (11-7), broke open a 6-4 game with seven unanswered goals in the third quarter to defeat Susquehanna (11-8), 14-6.

Junior attackman Michael Hatala (Glen Cove, N.Y./Glen Cove) paced the River Hawks in the season finale with two goals while sophomore attackman Colton Dick (Owings, Md./Northern) finished the day with a goal and an assist.

Gaining the Landmark's automatic qualifying bid to the NCAA Tournament with today's win, Elizabethtown now awaits the announcement of the 36-team field for the 2019 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Tournament.

Susquehanna 6, Elizabethtown 14

How It Happened

Etown staked a 2-0 lead in the first quarter with unassisted goals from Nick Cost at 12:29 and Mike Scrafano with 30 seconds to go.
Hatala put the River Hawks on the scoreboard with his 17th of the season off an assist from Dick at 13:44. The Blue Jays then rattled off three in a row to widen the gap to 5-1 at 6:56. SU then used goals from Dick and freshman attackman Jack McLaughlin (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) to head into halftime down by only 6-3.
Sophomore midfielder Ryan Bucher (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove) won the opening face-off and raced down for his first goal of the season, just six seconds into the third period to pull the River Hawks within 6-4.
Elizabethtown responded by unleashing seven straight to stretch its lead to 13-4 with four ticks remaining in the third.
Susquehanna won the fourth frame, 2-1, but all three goals were scored in the final four minutes of the game.

Inside the Box Score

Susquehanna earned the edge in ground balls, 31-28, as junior long-stick midfielder Jacob Fox (Brookfield, Conn./Brookfield) and Bucher led the way with four ground balls each.
The River Hawks won the battle at the X with a 13-of-21 effort. Bucher went 8-of-12 while junior Joe Acquaviva (Wyckoff, N.J./Don Bosco Prep) finished 5-of-9.
The SU defense also killed all five of Etown's five extra-man opportunities.
The Blue Jays outshot SU, 42-26, and held the River Hawks scoreless on four extra-man chances.

Top Performers

Senior midfielder Jack Gerrity (Scotch Plains-Fanwood, N.J./Scotch Plains Fanwood) and junior defenseman Patrick Donnelly (Webster, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) each tallied an assist.
Senior captain Dan Murphy (Sayville, N.Y./Sayville) paced the defensive effort with three caused turnovers and two ground balls while senior captain Dylan Abplanalp (Grasonville, Md./Kent Island) registered nine saves and three ground balls.

Scrafano and Cody Richter led the Blue Jays to their third straight Landmark title with two goals and two assists each while Tom Mahoney turned away nine shots in 55:33 minutes of action.

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