ARLINGTON, Va. – Nine Bobcats found the back of the net and the Frostburg State men's lacrosse team improved to 7-0 on the season Saturday as they took down Marymount, 14-7.
Frostburg showed a balanced attack, with six goal scorers also tallying an assist. Seniors Chris Rios (2 goals, 1 assist) and Devin Colegrove (1g, 2a), and juniors Spenser Love (2g, 1a), Nick Stailey (2g, 1a), and Tate Rolland (1g, 2a) all had a three-point game to power the Bobcats' offense.
FSU got on the board early with Rios sandwiching goals around a mark from Aikin to put the Bobcats up 3-0 with 8:14 to go in the first quarter. Marymount's Matt Justice found a pass from Kellan McCarthy with 1:34 to go to pull within two.
Frostburg then scored all four goals in the second quarter, one from Rolland (6:11), two from Love (3:21, 1:53) and one from freshman Nick Pontorno (1:15), to take a cushy 7-1 lead into the locker room at the half.
Just one minute into the third quarter, Colegrove found senior Greg Bourne to give the Bobcats an 8-1 lead, but the Saints' Brent Sulhoff (10:57) and Nico Burns (9:02) had the next two goals to bring the score within five, 8-3, and the closest they would come in the remaining minutes.
Frostburg kept the pressure on and, 11 seconds later, freshman Keegan Colegrove gave FSU its six-goal lead back with an unassisted tally. Bourne then had his second of the game, again finishing a pass from Devin Colegrove with 4:19 left to go in the third. However, after a Frostburg penalty, Marymount's Burns had his second-straight goal to bring the game back within six, 10-4, heading into the final 15 minutes.
Devin Colegrove and Stailey opened the fourth quarter with a goal apiece for a 12-4 FSU lead, but the Saints' Michael Mene slipped one past the Bobcat defense with 9:33 remaining. Stailey answered back just 15 seconds later and Pontorno took advantage of a man-up situation after a Saints' penalty to give the Bobcats their largest lead of the game, 14-5, with 3:37 to play.
Justice (1:31) and Mike Stidham (0:52) scored in the final minute and a half to bring the game to its final 14-7 mark, but ultimately it was the decisive 5-0 Bobcat run in the second quarter that put the game out of reach for the Saints.
Bourne (2g), Keegan Colegrove (1g, 1a), Pontorno (2g), and Aikin (1g) rounded out the scoring for Frostburg while sophomore Chris Santina added an assist. Junior keeper Tom Kraemer picked up his seventh win of the season and had eight saves in the crease.
Marymount (2-4) was led by Justice and Burns' two goals each while keeper Mike Kempel finished with eight saves in the loss.
The Bobcats return home to begin a four-game home stand starting with McDaniel on Wednesday with face-off at 7:00 p.m.
