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BABSON PARK, Mass. - The Babson College men's lacrosse
team dropped a hard contested matchup to visiting Union College
Saturday afternoon, 8-5, in a nonconference game at MacDowell
Field. Seven different players scored for Union in the win and
sophomore Ted McKenna finished with a game high four points
tallying one goal and three assists for the Dutchmen. With the
loss, Babson drops to 1-2 on the season while Union improves to 1-1
with their single loss of the season coming to #15 ranked SUNY
Geneseo, 10-5.
Union got the scoring started just over five minutes into the
first quarter when senior Andrew Higgins (Wrentham, Mass.) received
a pass from first-year teammate Robert Young (Ithaca, N.Y.) to put
the Dutchmen up 1-0. Babson answered four minutes later to tie it
up, 1-1, with 5:40 left in the quarter when first-year
Benjamin Jette (Old Lyme, Conn.) found sophomore
Paul Grip (Shrewsbury, Mass.) to put the Beavers
on the board. Union junior Brendan Kinnane (Little Compton,
R.I.) scored a man-up unassisted goal with 2:03 remaining in the
first quarter to give the Dutchmen the 2-1 advantage at the first
break.
The Dutchmen came out strong in the second quarter scoring the
next two goals putting them up 4-1 with 7:42 remaining in the half.
Babson junior Thomas Cykana (Minnetonka, Minn.)
then received a pass from sophomore Brian Magner (Norwell,
Mass.) at the 6:25 mark to bring the Beavers to within
two, 4-2. Union's Meyer scored another for the Dutchmen when
McKenna set him up with 4:44 remaining in the half to put Union up
5-2. A Union timeout with 28 seconds remaining in the half proved
to be effective when the duo of McKenna and Meyer struck again,
this time with Meyer assisting McKenna for the goal with 20
seconds left in the half to give Union a solid 6-2 lead at the
half.
In the third quarter, the Beavers were able to limit union to
one goal which came three minutes in when Young scored off a
McKenna assist. The next goal didn't come until 12 minutes later
when Babson first-year James Schmidt (Shelburne,
Vt.) scored off a pass from senior co-captain Max
Artz (Gates Mills, Ohio) to make the score 7-3 entering
the final period of play.
The Beavers outscored Union 2-1 in the final quarter with Babson
receiving goals from sophomore Thomas Mallon (Manhasset,
N.Y.) and first-year Alex Patinkin (Providence,
R.I.) but were unable to get any closer as the Dutchmen
took the 8-5 victory.
Babson received goals from Grip, Cykana, Schmidt, Mallon and
Patinkin and Artz finished with two assists for the Beavers.
Junior defensemen Chrisitan Ebert (Boxford, Mass.)
finished with a game high nine groundballs.
Young finished with two goals and one assist for Union and
McKenna tallied four points with one goal and three assists.
The Beavers outshot Union, 38-26 with 18 total shots on net to
Union's 15. Sophomore Sean Aaron (Great Falls, Va.) proved to be
the deciding factor for Union coming up with 13 saves on 18 shots
on goal. Babson senior goalkeeper Mike Saucier
(Nahsua, N.H.) finished with seven saves on the day.
Babson returns to action Wednesday, March 10th when they visit
Eastern Connecticut State University for their first away game of
the season at 4:00pm. Union will host Ithaca on March 10th also at
4:00pm.
