Box Score
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. – SUNY Cortland scored the game's first four goals and never looked back as the third-ranked Red Dragons defeated No. 14 Gettysburg 11-4 at John J. Burns Park on Long Island in the fourth annual Supervisor's Trophy Game Saturday afternoon in a non-conference men's lacrosse game.
Cortland (3-0) received two goals and two assists from Cody Consul while Nick Wolak added two goals and an assist. Mike Tota and Joe Slavik notched two goals apiece for the Red Dragons, who have now won three of the four Supervisor's Trophy games.
Sophomore
Martin Manilla continued his hot start for the Bullets (2-2), posting his fourth-straight hat trick to start the season with three goals. He has now scored 14 goals for the year.
Classmate
Henry Tesar handed out two assists while junior #J.T. McCook
tied a season-high with 12 saves. Sophomore Nick Avedisian
finished 11-for-19 on face-offs while senior Billy Grayson# picked up four ground balls.
It was the 400th game coached at Gettysburg for
Hank Janczyk, who is now 314-86 at the helm of the Bullets.
Cortland scored twice in the game's opening four minutes before Nick Wolak potted back-to-back goals to make it 4-0 with 2:54 left in the opening quarter. Freshman
Bijan Firouzan put the Bullets on the scoreboard with 1:52 on the clock when he circled the cage before slipping in a shot down low for his first collegiate goal.
The Dragons extended their lead to 7-2 at the half by outscoring Gettysburg 3-1 in the second quarter. Slavik and Brendan Bellew scored 25 seconds apart to make it 6-1 with 11:45 left in the half, and that's how the score remained until Manilla buried his first goal of the game, taking a pass from junior
Ryan Fumai and sending a shot into the lower left corner of the net. Tota struck with 10 seconds left in the stanza to give Cortland its five-goal advantage.
Manilla scored again with 9:04 to go in the third quarter, converting a feed from Tesar to make it 7-3. Cortland was whistled for a cross-checking penalty on the goal, but Gettysburg's only shot on the man-up opportunity was saved by Mike Kaminski, who finished with nine stops. Tota scored again with 3:43 left in the quarter to make it an 8-3 game with 15 minutes left to play.
Consul scored twice – including a man-down goal – in just under three minutes early in the fourth quarter as the Dragons lead swelled to 10-3. Manilla scored his last goal with 2:27 left before Brian Winterfeldt answered 24 seconds later to set the final score.
The Bullets return to action on Wednesday, when they visit No. 19 Cabrini College at 3:30 p.m. in another non-conference tilt.