Box Score

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Senior Sean Fumai (Weston, Conn./Weston) tied a career-high with five goals and the 13th-ranked Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team earned a 17-6 Centennial Conference (CC) victory at Muhlenberg on Sunday.
 
The win was never in doubt for the Bullets (6-4, 2-1 CC), who raced out to a 6-1 first-quarter lead.
 
Fumai, who also dished out one assist to tie another career-best with six points, scored four of his goals in the opening half to help stake the Orange and Blue to a 10-3 halftime advantage.
 
Sophomores Blake Gray (Reisterstown, McDonogh School) and Jack Harvey (New Providence, N.J./New Providence) added three goals and one assist apiece for Gettysburg, which posted its second-highest scoring output of the season, while classmate Tommy Heller (Livingston, N.J./Livingston) notched one goal and a career-high four assists.
 
Defensively, junior goalie Tim Brady (Charlotte, N.C./Providence) made 15 saves – one shy of his career-high – over the opening 55 minutes before giving way to senior Ryan Goodall (Dover, Mass./Dover-Sherborn), who blanked the Mules over the last five minutes while turning aside three shots. In addition, freshman long-stick midfielder Christian Atalese (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) finished with three ground balls and three caused turnovers while junior Geoff Fulgione (North Andover, Mass./Brooks School) contributed six ground balls.
 
Niko Del Moro scored two goals to lead the Mules (2-6, 0-2 CC) while Frankie Feaster won 15 of 24 face-offfs.
 
The Bullets never trailed after Harvey struck less than three minutes into the contest. Fumai followed up two minutes later before Del Moro answered for Muhlenberg to make it 2-1 with 7:45 on the clock. However, that's when Gettysburg put together a 4-0 run to end the quarter. Gray cashed in 7:07 showing before Fumai drained back-to-back tallies 14 seconds apart less than a minute later. Harvey completed the spurt with his second goal at the 4:29 mark, handing his team its early five-goal cushion.
 
The Mules threatened at the start of the second quarter, scoring the first two goals of the period to make it 6-3. But Gettysburg closed the stanza on another 4-0 run, starting with Gray's second tally at the 7:17 mark. Fumai buried his fourth goal with 5:24 left in the half before Harvey reached his hat trick two minutes later. Junior Patrick Decker (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) completed the run with a man-up goal with 1:21 showing on the first-half clock.
 
Gettysburg continued to pull away in the second half, when seven players accounted for the team's seven goals. In a low-scoring third quarter, freshman Michael McCormick (Lorton, Va./Paul VI Catholic) converted with 7:09 remaining to make it 11-3. The Mules scored just over a minute later before Heller struck with seven ticks showing, pushing the Bullets' lead to 12-4 heading into the final stanza.
 
After Muhlenberg scored a minute and a half into the fourth quarter, Gettysburg closed the game on a 5-1 run. Fumai, sophomore Mike Risser (Chester Spring, Pa./Downingtown East), junior Ivan Morris (Houston, Texas/Houston Christian), Gray, and freshman long-stick midfielder Eric Carr (Huntingdon Valley, Pa./Academy of the New Church) accounted for goal apiece.
 
The Bullets held advantages in shots (43-36) and ground balls (35-26) and were successful on 20 of 22 clear attempts.
 
Gettysburg picks up its schedule on Saturday, when it hosts Swarthmore at 1 p.m. in another Centennial Conference affair.