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Zach Bradbury finished with 11 ground balls and 13 faceoff wins
11
Winner Marywood MUML 5-8, 2-2
9
Wesley WEML 2-9, 1-3
Winner
Marywood MUML
5-8, 2-2
11
Final
9
Wesley WEML
2-9, 1-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Marywood MUML 1 5 3 2 11
Wesley WEML 1 2 2 4 9

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | | Jay Monahan, Assistant Director of Sports Information

Men's Lacrosse Thwarts Wesley Rally to Even Atlantic East Mark

Dover, Del. – Marywood University held off a second half Wesley College comeback to even its Atlantic East Conference men's lacrosse record with an 11-9 victory on the road. The Pacers let a five-goal lead slip to two in the fourth period before holding off the Wolverines.
 
The Pacers (5-8, 2-2 Atlantic East) benefited largely off of the ground. Marywood picked up 40 ground balls to the Wolverines' 18 and won faceoff chances by a 17-7 margin.
 
Zach Bradbury led the cause with 11 ground balls and two caused turnovers. He won 13 of 17 ground balls at a 72.2 percent clip.
 
Senior Matt Mitarotonda provided the Pacers with three goals, two assists for five points. He also contributed three ground balls.
 
Zach Vaughan contributed on the offensive side of the ball with three goals and an assist. Vaughan sits just eight points shy of joining the 100 Point Club.
 
Providing three points were Eric Morin (2g-1a), Zach Beja (3a), and Luke Shedler (1g-2a). Shedler and Beja each had three ground balls.
 
Jeff Johnsen factored in with five ground balls.
 
Sophomore goalkeeper Matt Leen garnered his fourth straight game of double-digit saves. He put away 11 shots for a .550 save percentage.
 
The Pacers went down early when the Wolverines' (2-9, 1-3 Atlantic East) Leo Kelly scored 67 seconds into regulation. Marywood responded with five unanswered goals. Patrick Dingwell evened the score a minute later from Beja. After a full period's worth of scoreless play, Shedler broke open the impasse with an unassisted goal to take the lead. Mitarotonda had back-to-back goals in 22 seconds.
 
Wesley tacked on a pair of foals from Nick Bruhn and Kyle Mackall-Lloyd to move within two (5-3) with 2:22 left in the first half. Mitarotonda added his third of the half with 11 seconds left off of a Vaughan feed for a 6-3 lead at halftime.
 
Marywood came out of the break with three of the first four goals. Consecutive Vaughan tallies gave the Pacers a 9-4 advantage with 1:29 remaining in the third period.
 
Wesley crawled back with Zach Farnell goals sandwiching a Derek Hallock goal, trimming the Pacers' lead to 9-7 with 10:54 to go. Eric Morin gave the Pacers' a well-needed cushion on a Mitarotonda give at 6:49. After another Wesley score, Johnsen pushed the lead back to three (11-8) at 3:29.
 
The Wolverines' Zach Farnell posted a goal with just over three minutes remaining.
 
Johnsen picked up a ground ball to win the succeeding faceoff. Wesley reclaimed possession with a clear but were unable to get a shot on goal in the last two minutes.
 
Marywood travels to rival Gwynedd Mercy University Wednesday night at 7 pm.
 
 
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