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BOX SCORE

Fighting Knights beat the Eagles 11-10

Daytona Beach, Florida – Coming off of a physical game vs Florida Tech, the Fighting Knights bounced back in their win vs Embry-Riddle. Today’s win for Lynn featured five multi-goal scorers.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Score: Lynn 11 Embry-Riddle 10
Records: Lynn (3-8, 1-2 SSC) Embry-Riddle (3-10, 0-3 SSC)
Series History: Lynn leads 3-0
Location: ERAU Lacrosse Field | Daytona Beach, Florida
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HOW IT HAPPENED:

• The Fighting Knights struck first and early today in their win. Just ten seconds into the game Xander Cosenza scored his 21st goal of the season for Lynn to go up 1-0.
• After the Eagles went up 2-1, Lynn came back with two goals of their own. Matthew Ilchuk and Tommy Ruddo scored to put Lynn ahead 3-2.
• The Eagles scored two more goals to take the lead again, but another goal from Ilchuk took the lead back. Colby Keefe had the assist on the goal.
• Cosenza scored a minute later for Lynn to go up 5-4 with 13:22 left in the first half.
• A goal from Embry-Riddle tied it up, but another goal from Ruddo from Thomas Murray put Lynn up 6-5.
• Coming out of the half with the lead, Lynn scored two straight goals to go up 8-5. Jalen Stanton scored from Joseph Michalski just :50 seconds in. Fisher Williams scored his first goal of the season from Michalski with just over ten minutes left.
• Michalski scored for Lynn after the Eagles put up two to keep Lynn’s lead at 9-7.
• Just over four minutes into the fourth quarter the Eagles tied the game at 9-9.
• Stanton scored again for Lynn to go up 10-9 with 06:58 left.
• The Eagles tied the game at ten with 03:17 left in the game, but Michalski’s 21st goal of the season just :38 seconds later would secure the win for the Fighting Knights.
• Michalski led the team with two goals and two assists.
• Ilchuk, Cosenza, Ruddo, and Stanton all had two goals.
• Williams’s first goal of the season came on his one shot on goal.
• Colin Casey had 13 saves on 23 shots in the win for Lynn. 

UP NEXT:

The Fighting Knights play again vs Rollins in Winter Park, Florida on Saturday, Apr. 9th at 4 P.M.

About the Lynn University Fighting Knights

Lynn’s NCAA Division II Fighting Knights have won 25 national titles, 14 individual national titles, and 47 conference championships. The Blue and White are a member of the Sunshine State Conference, the Division II “Conference of National Champions.” Lynn University is an independent college based in Boca Raton, Florida. U.S. News & World Report has recognized Lynn for its innovation, international students and value. To keep up to date on Lynn Athletics, follow @Lynn_Knights on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

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Men’s Lacrosse Edged by Lynn, 11-10

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida – The Embry-Riddle men’s lacrosse team came tantalizingly close to its first-ever Sunshine State Conference win on Wednesday night at the ERAU Lacrosse field, but Lynn scored the final goal of a back-and-forth affair to come away with the 11-10 victory. The Eagles (3-10, 0-3 SSC) mounted a fourth-quarter comeback highlighted to tie the contest twice in the final minutes, but the Fighting Knights (3-8, 1-2 SSC) got the game-winner with two-and-a-half minutes to play.

Lynn struck for the game’s first score just 10 seconds into the contest after a little more than an hour delay due to weather in the area. But after the initial goal, both defenses settled in and neither team scored until Christian Hofer scored his 22nd goal of the year with under six minutes to play.

Marcus Needham found Pete Abbes for the Eagles’ second goal, giving the home team a 2-1 lead, but Lynn found the back of the net twice to retake a one-goal lead. After Lynn’s go-ahead goal, Mark Urso, who was dominant for the Eagles at the face off, won the ensuing face off, weaving through the Lynn defense and firing a shot past the Knights’ keeper to tie things up at 3-3.

ERAU and Lynn traded the next four goals in the second quarter, all in the first three minutes of play, but it was the visitors who took a 6-5 lead into halftime with the final score of the period at the 4:03 mark. LU’s goalkeeper made several nice saves in the final few minutes of the half to keep his team in front.

Lynn pushed its lead out to 8-5 when it scored two goals in the first five minutes of the third quarter, but the momentum switched when Coleman Jacobs fed Trent McCauley for his first goal of the season at the 5:01 mark of the period, cutting the Eagle deficit to 8-6. Needham scored less than 50 seconds later to make it a one-goal game, however, Lynn would scored the final goal of the period for the second straight quarter to own a 9-7 advantage after 45 minutes.

Lars Hoeg used his 6-6 frame to halve the Lynn lead three minutes into the fourth, and less than two minutes later Joe Anderson buried his 10th goal of the year to tie the game at 9-9.

Embry-Riddle had five shots over the next few minutes to take its first lead since the first quarter, but the Blue and Gold couldn’t find the back of the net, and it was the visitors that went back in front with a score at 6:58.

With time running down, Jacobs picked up a ground ball and was able to find Hofer with 3:17 to play in regulation, leading to Hofer’s second goal of the day and ERAU’s 10th, tying the game at 10-10.

Lynn won the next face off and was able to once again get the go-ahead goal, this time with just 2:39 left to play, but the Eagles got two good looks from Jacobs and Abbes around the 60-second mark that would have tied the game, but one shot was wide and the other was saved.

Abbes and Hofer each scored twice, while Jacobs finished with one goal and two assists, as did Needham. Lucas Fraser (3-10) made 10 saves in goal for ERAU.

Embry-Riddle will host Saint Leo on Saturday, April 9 at 1 p.m. for Senior Day.