ELIZABETHTOWN, PA – Five consecutive Elizabethtown scores over the second and third quarters spelled danger for the Susquehanna men's lacrosse team in their Landmark Semifinals matchup Wednesday night. The River Hawks had the game tight, behind just 4-3 on the heels of a Brennan Lorence score to start the second quarter, the Blue Jays' five-goal stretch catalyzed a 6-2 run for the Landmark's top seed in a 10-5 decision.

Despite the season-ending outcome, the game marked career milestones for Chris Ciccarello and Jack Gaillard, who each reached 100 career points. With both needing two, Ciccarello tallied three on two goals and one assist, while Gaillard hit it on the nose with a pair of assists to become the 17^th and 18^th respective Century Club members in program history.

E-Town got the first three scores of the night in the opening seven minutes, distributed by Ben O'Connor's first of his five goals of the game, Colin Kondracki's first of three scores, and Riley Langan's lone goal in his eight-point day. The River Hawks got on the board when Nick Remund got one in at the halfway point of the first quarter with 7:25 remaining. After Kondracki got his second score of the night with 1:53 left, Ciccarello cut the lead in half, scoring with 54 ticks left in the quarter from a Gaillard assist. With nearly eight minutes of silence to start the second, Brennan Lorence got SU within one from Ciccarello's Century Club-clinching assist to make it a one-goal game.

The momentum and Elizabethtown's silence would be fleeting, though, as the Blue Jays closed out the half with four unanswered goals, each coming from Gavin Gismondi, Colin Kondracki, Cummings, and O'Connor, to lead 8-3 at intermission. They then opened the third quarter with a man-up score from O'Connor for his third of the day. Ciccarello would get one back for the orange and maroon with a man-up goal of his own from a Gaillard feed, only for O'Connor to return to land his fourth score of the contest near the end of the third. A River Hawks goal from Steven Musser halfway through the fourth proved to be the only goal of the closing period.

Jozef Korpics presided in goal for the River Hawks, administering ten saves on 20 shots faced in a full 60 minutes of action. The sophomore Lorence upped his career totals to 96 goals and 130 points.

Head coach Stewart Moan's team completes their 2023 season with a 10-8 record, making the Landmark Tournament for the fifth straight season (save the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign). Their 4-3 conference record proved to be their best since 2019.