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Will Ford had two goals in the setback for the Panthers.
7
Middlebury MIDDLEBURY 0-1, 0-1
16
Winner Amherst AMHERST 1-0, 1-0
Middlebury MIDDLEBURY
0-1, 0-1
7
Final
16
Amherst AMHERST
1-0, 1-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Middlebury MIDDLEBURY 2 4 0 1 7
Amherst AMHERST 2 6 4 4 16

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse |

#9 Men’s Lacrosse Falls To #16 Amherst

The ninth-ranked Middlebury men's lacrosse team dropped a 16-7 decision at #16 Amherst in its season opener on Saturday. Six different Panthers tallied a goal in the loss, which marked the 73rd meeting between the teams.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • The Mammoths took a 1-0 edge with 2:34 elapsed. Alex Giacobbe cut to his left and rolled off a pair of defenders before burying his attempt into the right panel. 
  • Middlebury answered with 9:57 remaining in the opening stanza when Nick Marvin ripped a low arm shot from 20 yards out to knot the score at 1-1.
  • The Panthers took the lead a minute later as Brendan Hickey found Will Ford, who muscled through traffic and found the back of the net to make it 2-1.
  • Amherst tied the contest with 1:15 left in the first quarter. Brendan Reilly rolled out from behind the goal and fired a pass to Ben Wick, who slipped it over Hayden Kern's left shoulder.
  • The Mammoths opened the second quarter with goals from Thompson Lau and Bob Gross to take a 4-2 lead at the 11:19 mark.
  • Middlebury responded less than a minute later with two markers. Logan White scored a quick stick tally off a feed from Billy Curtis to make it a one-goal game. Curtis added himself to the score sheet 14 seconds after the ensuing faceoff, firing the ball into the back of the net despite being sandwiched by two Amherst defenders to make the score 4-4. 
  • Deadlocked at five, Amherst tallied three-consecutive goals over 1:17 of game action to build an 8-5 advantage.
  • The Panthers made it a two-goal game (8-6) off the stick of Ford, who sliced a shot from about 25 yards out into the upper left corner with 1:20 remaining.
  • Amherst came out firing in the second half, scoring eight unanswered tallies that spanned nearly 20 minutes of game action to build a 16-6 lead with 10:49 remaining in the fourth.
  • John McCarthy tallied the final marker at the 4:36 mark for the 16-7 Amherst victory. 

NOTES

  • Ford led the Middlebury offense with two goals, while Curtis was the other Panther with double-digit points (1G, 1A). 

The Panthers stay on the road, heading to Troy, N.Y. to face #6 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.

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