WASHINGTON, DC – The Susquehanna men's lacrosse team rose to 3-0 in Landmark Conference play (9-2 overall) with a 13-10 comeback victory at Catholic Wednesday, overcoming a 10-7 deficit after three quarters for six unanswered goals in the fourth. Brennan Lorence, who became SU's career goals leader in last game's 13-3 win Friday at Moravian, added to his legend with a game-high seven goals, including four in the final quarter.

Wednesday's game was delayed one hour due to lightning and storms in the area. When things settled down and play began the River Hawks held an early 2-0 lead thanks to Lorence opening the scoring with 12:55 remaining, followed by fellow high-scoring mate Jack Gaillard nearly one minute later. Catholic responded with two straight to tie the game, but a Matthew Faggioli goal put Susquehanna back up 3-2 after one period of play. The second quarter welcomed an exchange of goals where neither side could add any more to their fleeting one-goal leads. After the Cardinals opened with two straight to take a 4-3 lead, the River Hawks bounced back with two of their own, the first by Nick Remund and Lorence's second of the day, to go back up 5-4. After another Catholic score tied things up again at 5-5, Connor Aitken had the final say in the first-half scoring when he scored off a feed from Jack Gaillard to make it a 6-5 contest at the half.

Lorence was the proprietor of Susquehanna's lone goal of the third quarter as Catholic took control with five scores in the period to carry the largest lead of the game on either side entering the fourth up 10-7. SU goalie and reigning Landmark Defensive Player of the Week Jozef Korpics made his mark in the fourth quarter, turning away three saves in the period as he registered 14 on the day. The defense deserved equal praise as Catholic committed 20 turnovers, including 12 caused by Susquehanna, a game-high four from Aidan Kennedy and three from Ted Zaborowski.

Lorence kicked off the fourth-quarter scoring with his fourth of the day off a feed from Steven Musser with 11:43 to play. The next goal from Aitken was nothing short of gutsy. As documented all season long, Korpics is a mobile goalie, sometimes leading the charge himself. After a key save bounced to Dylan New, he gave it back to Korpics who ran down the left sideline to create a scoring play. With the Catholic defense focused on Korpics, he easily found a wide-open Aitken down the left wing who dropped it down low to cut the Cardinals' lead to 10-9 with 10:01 remaining. Korpics kept with the same script the next trip down, even firing a shot that went wide. He succeeded by drawing a penalty to set up a man-up opportunity, which Lorence cashed in on as he sniped one from the left side off another feed from Musser to tie the game at 8:21.

Exactly one minute later Lorence again provided the heroics, coming up the gut to split the defense and deliver the go-ahead strike. Another minute later, Matthew Faggioli found similar success, pushing his way through the defense and delivering a quick strike to the bottom right corner for a two-goal lead. Catholic looked to get back in by winning the faceoff, but were unsuccessful on five shots that they were able to fire off on their trip down before the possession clock ran out. The River Hawks took the ball back on their scoring end and doubled their pleasure by draining the shot clock down to three seconds before Lorence fired a sniper in the face of tight defense to add some final insurance to their late lead.

Lorence's seven goals puts him at 37 on the season, 24 from his Landmark Conference record set last year, and 133 for his career. Gaillard's season number moved up to 37 points on 12 goals and 25 assists, while Aitken and Faggioli moved into double digits in goals on the year with 11 and 10, respectively. Korpics is 9-2 on the season with 120 total saves, a .625 save percentage, and a 7.26 goals allowed average in nearly 600 total minutes of action.

The River Hawks are one win away from matching their win total from last season with six more Landmark games to play. They resume things this Saturday when they host new Landmark member Lycoming in a 1 p.m. showdown at Sassafras Field.