THE FACTS
No. 3 Salisbury (4-0) 12, No. 12 Gettysburg (1-1) 11
What: Non-conference men's lacrosse game
When: Saturday, Feb. 22
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Salisbury, ranked third in the latest USILA Div. III coaches' poll, used a 3-0 third quarter to open up a 9-6 lead and staved off a rally from No. Gettysburg to escape with a 12-11 win.
THE LEADERS
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Jack Dunleavy (New Providence, R.I./Seton Hall Prep) led the Bullets with four goals and one assist.
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Jackson Hearn (Houston, Texas/Episcopal Bellaire) added two goals and three assists. He also had three ground balls.
FOR THE FOES
• Brice Bromwell paced the Sea Gulls with three goals and five assists.
• Riley Strub added four goals and an assist.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Ryan Della opened the scoring off a feed from Riley Strub five minutes into the game before
Benny Kasoff (Leesburg, Va./Riverside) connected with
Charlie Johnson (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) in transition to tie the game with 2:34 showing.
• Goals from Michael Leahy and Strub in the opening 1:19 of the second quarter for a 3-1 advantage.
Patrick Maroney (Hingham, Mass./Boston College H.S.), however answered with 12:58 showing to spark a 4-0 run over the next 5:38. Dunleavy bounced one home to tie it before
Frank Barbera (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) was the first of two long poles to score for the Bullets off a pass from
Jackson Hearn. Hearn then found Dunleavy for a man-up tally to close the stretch. Salisbury countered with three straight of its own, including two Brice Bromwell-to-Strub connections to bookend the stretch.
Andy Marquet (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga) gave Gettysburg its second pole goal off a
Griffin Hough (Bourne, Mass./Tabor Academy) feed to tie the game at 6-all with 1:35 to play in the second quarter.
• Bromwell had a hand in all three third-quarter goals, scoring two and assisting on one. All three goals came in a five-minute stretch between 7:44 and 2:44. It was a quarter in which the Sea Gulls outshot the Bullets, 11-1.
• Connor Herraiz gave the visitors a 10-6 lead with 11:04 to play but another Hearn-to-Dunleavy connection for a man-up tally and Stoke Myers (Nashville, Tenn./Montgomery Bell Academy) cut the deficit in half with 7:56 showing. Della and Hearn scored 10 seconds apart and Bromwell closed a run of five goals in 1-minute, 53-second stretch. Dunleavy hit Hearn with 5:29 remaining to make it a 12-10 game and then Dunleavy closed the margin to one in the final six seconds but Salisbury won the final faceoff to thwart any potential game-tying goal.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Salisbury finished with a 40-38 edge in shots and won 14 of 26 faceoffs.
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Frank Barbera added four ground balls and two caused turnovers to his goal.
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Cisco Celotto (Westport, Conn./Staples) won 12 of 21 faceoffs with six ground balls.
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Murphy Hoey (Fairfield, Conn./Notre Dame West Haven) made a career-high 15 saves in goal.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at No. 18 Stevenson on Saturday. Game time is 7 p.m.
