
UT Men: #5 NYIT Defense Holds #10 Tampa 13-11
Written by Lee Roggenburg on . Posted in Uncategorized.
via press release – photo via UT web site
OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. – The No. 10 University of Tampa men’s lacrosse fell to No.5 New York Institute of Technology.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Final: NYIT 13, Tampa 11
Records: Tampa (10-4, 3-0 SSC), NYIT (9-1)
Location: Old Westbury, N.Y.
All-time Series: NYIT leads the series 2-1.
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HOW IT HAPPENED:
1st Period
- Tampa had the first goal of the game from Andrew Kew.
- The Bears responded back with three goals to take a 3-1 lead.
- Kew fired again with five seconds left in the period, assisted by Conor Whipple.
- NYIT tacked on another goal for a lead of 4-2.
- Jake Mosher McGraw has his first goal of the game at 11:32.
- The Bears answered with three goals to take a four-goal lead of 7-3.
- Mosher McGraw has another goal with 1:14 left in the period.
- With one second left, NYIT takes a 8-5 lead going into half-time.
- NYIT starts the period with back-to-back goals to have a lead of 10-5 over Tampa.
- Whipple has his first goal of that game at 6:10, assisted by Kew.
- The Bears answer back with two more goals, now leading the Spartans 12-6.
- The Spartans offense came alive in the final period of the game.
- Three minutes into the period, Whipple has an unassisted goal.
- At 3:43, Whipple attacks again with an assist from Sean Herdman.
- Two minutes later, Bryan Wright teams up with Whipple to decrease the deficit to 12-9.
- NYIT answers back at 1:19.
- Whipple has an unassisted goal to bring the game within three points.
- The final goal of the game comes from Wright, assisted by Whipple at 00:26, Tampa falling by two goals to NYIT.
- Whipple led the team in points with four goals and three assists.
- Charlie Cummins had three caused turnovers and two groundballs.
- Kew and Wright each tallied two goals.
- Luke Posner led the team in ground balls with four, also tallying a caused turnover.
- Sophmore, Andrew Kew broke the school record for goals in a season (62) with 67 thus far. The Oakville, Ontario native is on track to break the NCAA goals in a single season record of 72 this season.