thanks to Daniel Supraner and Olivia Coiro for these press releases   Third Quarter Surge Propels No. 14 Florida Tech Past Lynn 11-8 Strong second half helps Panthers stay undefeated on the road this season BOCA RATON, Fla. (Men’s Lacrosse) – After going into halftime with a one goal deficit, No. 14 Florida Tech (10-2, 2-1 SSC) used a dominant third quarter to cruise past Lynn University (7-4, 1-1 SSC) for an 11-8 victory at Bobby Campbell Stadium on Friday night. With the win, the Panthers are now 5-0 away from Pirate Stadium this season, including a 2-0 record in conference road games. “We got back on track,” said head coach Ryan McAleavey. “It’s our second conference win. We really needed this one and it was a hard fought victory.” Senior Andrew Conley paced a Florida Tech offense that featured seven different goal scorers against the Fighting Knights. Conley finished with two goals and two assists, while sophomore Charlie Morrisette recorded a hat trick in the win. Junior Nick Wynne added one goal and two assists and fellow junior Jason Terry tallied two goals. Nick Wynne started the scoring with his unassisted goal just four minutes after opening faceoff. Lynn knotted it up at one goal apiece with a score by Jacob Van Leenen, but Conley answered less than a minute later to give FIT a 2-1 lead at the 8:17 mark of the first quarter. The Panthers pushed their lead to two goals when Morrisette drove by his defender and scored his first of the game The Fighting Knights controlled the second quarter, scoring all three goals of the stanza. Brian Kiel powered past the Panthers’ defense for his first goal of the contest and Mark Snellman found Austin Jerhoff open on the crease to tie the game up at 3-3 with 9:04 remaining in the half. Kiel found the back of the net again to give Lynn a 4-3 lead heading into halftime. Florida Tech tied it back up at 4-4 when senior Zach Wynne found Morrisette across the crease for a man up goal just 41 seconds into the second half. The Fighting Knights took the lead back off an outside rip by Tyler Janvrin, but the Panthers responded with a Nick Wynne to Zach Wynne connection on a man up opportunity to tie the game with 11:55 left in the third quarter. Nick Wynne then found Jason Terry for an absolute howitzer that singed the twine behind Lynn goalie Taylor Ferrino, giving FIT a 6-5 lead. Senior Christian Isola and junior Brian Bacarella each hit the back of the net to increase the Panthers advantage to three goals before Lynn’s Sam Turner ended the run with his in-close goal with 4:08 remaining in the third quarter. Just before the end of the quarter, Morrisette finished off the hat trick and pushed FIT’s lead back to three goals with his second man up tally of the night. Conley fired a shot past Ferrino to give the Panthers a four goal lead to open the fourth quarter. Lynn was able to close the gap to two goals off tallies by Turner and Kiel, but Terry pushed the game out of reach with an empty net goal with just 32 seconds left in the game. “Both teams played hard,” stated McAleavey. “They’re a great team but our guys are resilient and we just found a way to win. We were down at halftime but our team came out in the second half with the mission to not let this one get away from us.” The Panthers’ defense was impressive in the win, holding the Fighting Knights’ top three scorers to a combined one goal in the game “We knew what these guys could do and our goal was to shut them down this game,” said McAleavey. “Between our individual defensive performance and team defense we were able to not let them get comfortable in the game. The defense did a great job tonight in their assignments.” Florida Tech returns home for a matchup with SSC opponent Florida Southern on Saturday, April 11 at 7 p.m. at Palm Bay High School’s Pirate Stadium. Prior to the regular season home finale, the Panthers will recognize their seniors as part of Senior Night. Live video, audio and stats will be available at FloridaTechSports.com/live.   Box Score: http://www.floridatechsports.com/media/2014-15/mlacrosse/stats/fitm12.htm 2015 Schedule: http://www.floridatechsports.com/mlacrosse/schedule/ 2015 Roster: http://www.floridatechsports.com/mlacrosse/roster/   Daniel Supraner Assistant Director of Athletic Communications Florida Tech Athletics 150 W. University Blvd. Melbourne, Fla. 32901 Work: 321-674-7484 Fax: 321-984-8529   —————————-   Lynn Lacrosse Suffers First SSC Loss of Season to No. 15 FIT BOCA RATON, Fla.- Lynn University’s lacrosse team suffered its first Sunshine State Conference loss of the season to 15^th-ranked Florida Tech, 11-8, on Friday night. The Fighting Knights fall to 7-4 overall and 1-1 in league play while FIT improves to 10-2 overall and 2-1 in the SSC. Brian Kiel scored his first hat trick of the season leading the Blue & White with four points in the loss. Nick Wynne put the Panthers on the scoreboard with an unassisted goal four minutes into play but Jacob Van Leenen answered back with an unassisted goal of his own to even the score 1-1 two minutes later. Andrew Conley tallied FIT’s second goal at 8:17 and Charlie Morrisette added another goal with 1:24 left in the period for the Panthers to lead 3-1 after the opening 15 minutes. Lynn went on to score three unanswered goals in the second quarter to lead 4-3 at halftime. Kiel’s first goal brought the game within one goal at 9:48 and Austin Jerhoff found the back of the net on an assist from Mark Snellman 44 seconds later tying the game at 3-all. Kiel’s second goal gave Lynn its first lead of the game, 4-3. After the break, Charlie Morrisette scored a man up goal 41 seconds into the third quarter on an assist by Zach Wynne to once again tie the game. Lynn’s Tyler Janvrin notched an unassisted goal at 13:19 for a 5-4 Fighting Knights lead but the Panthers went on a 4-0 run to lead 8-5 with 5:13 to play in the period. Sam Turner scored his first goal of the game on Kiel’s lone assis at 4:08 to bring the game within two but Morrisette scored another man-up goal just before the two minute mark for a 9-6 lead the held until the end of the quarter. Conley made it a 10-6 game with an unassisted goal for the Panthers at 13:46 in the final frame. Sam Turner turned in his second point of the game at 5:15 making it a 10-7 game. Minutes later head coach Brian Kingsbury pulled Taylor Ferrino from goal and replaced him with Dante Egan. The change worked as Egan pulled himself from goal as to add another defender for the Fighting Knights. Caleb Cerf caused a turnover with 2:49 to play as Jordon Van Leenen grabbed the ground ball. Lynn was successful on the clear attempted and at 1:56 Brian Kiel scored on an assist from Janvrin bringing the score to 10-8 in FIT’s favor. With one minute remaining the Fighting Knights pulled their goalie and Jason Terry scored on the open net with 32 seconds left in regulation giving the Panthers a 11-8 lead that would hold until the final horn buzzed. Ferrino made 11 saves in between the pipes for the Blue & White and Vincent Genovesi won 9-of-21 face-offs. The Fighting Knights were successful on 12-of-14 clear attempts but served seven penalties in the loss. FIT outshot Lynn 35-27 and slightly edged the home team 26-24 in groundballs. Genovesi led Lynn with a team-best 7 groundballs and Cerf caused three turnovers for the Fighting Knights. Ferrino allowed 10 goals in 57 minutes and Egan was credited with one goal against in his first career appearance as a goalkeeper. Lynn returns to action on Wednesday, April 8, when the Fighting Knights host Rollins in SSC play. Face-off is set for 7 pm at Bobby Campbell Stadium. Fans can follow the action live at LynnFightingKnights.com. Don’t forget to ‘Like’ us on Facebook and follow @Lynn_Knights on Twitter and Instagram. ### Olivia Coiro Assistant Sports Information Director Lynn University 561-237-7279