Stockton and Wilcox Score Game-High Two Goals as No. 15 Men's Lacrosse Defeats Roberts Wesleyan, 7-5
Box Score ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Apr. 2, 2016) – Led by a game-high two goals from both senior Kyle Stockton (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue-Medford) and junior Nick Wilcox (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg), the No. 15 Mercy College men's lacrosse earned their third straight win with a 7-5 victory over ECC foe Roberts Wesleyan College on Saturday afternoon at the RWC Lacrosse Field.
The Mavericks (7-2, 3-1 ECC) improve to 2-0 on the road, while the Redhawks (3-8, 1-3 ECC) have now dropped three in a row.
Also scoring for Mercy was junior Daniel Speicher (Seaford, N.Y./Seaford) and freshman Ryan MacSpadyen (Toronto, Ontario/Seneca College) who both finished with a goal and an assist. Freshman Bobby Chillianis (Bethpage, N.Y./Bethpage) added a goal and senior Robert Rossi (North Massapequa, N.Y./Adelphi) contributed two assists. Sophomore Ross Schnitzer (Scarsdale, N.Y./Loyola University Maryland) helped lead the Mavericks defense with three caused turnovers. Senior A.J. Pellati (West Islip, N.Y./West Islip) made the start in net and went the first half with three saves. Sophomore Michael Schneider (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) played the entire second half, making six saves to pick up the win and improve to 2-2 on the year.
Roberts Wesleyan was led by Alex Bianchi who had a team-high three points on a goal and two assists. Keith Keehn played the full 60 minutes in net and made 16 saves in a losing effort.
Mercy, playing just their second road game of the year, found themselves in a low-scoring affair as the two teams combined for just 12 goals on the day. The game remained scoreless until 3:18 left in the first quarter when Stockton found the back of the net off an assist from Speicher to give the Mavericks a 1-0 lead.
The score stayed 1-0 after the first quarter as Keehn made three saves in the closing minutes of the period to keep Mercy off the board. Nearly half of the second quarter would go by before Speicher netted his seventh goal of the season to put the Mavericks up 2-0 with 8:15 left in the half. The Redhawks finally got on the board with just under three minutes left in the period and the two teams headed into halftime with Mercy up 2-1.
The second half saw the Mavericks come out firing but Keehn made four saves to start the third quarter to keep the game at 2-1. Following a pair of Mercy penalties, the hosts took their first lead of the game, 3-2, on a pair of man-up goals with 9:15 remaining in the third quarter. However, the Mavericks were not going to go down without a fight and Chillianis, Stockton and Wilcox ensued with three straight goals less than three minutes later to give Mercy the lead back for good at 5-3 with 6:19 left in the period.
The score remained 5-3 after the third quarter, but Wilcox and MacSpadyen changed that early in the fourth quarter as they scored a pair to increase the Mavericks lead to 7-3 with 11 minutes left. Roberts Wesleyan then scored just over a minute later to cut the Mercy lead to 7-4. However, Schneider came up with crucial stops down the stretch and allowed just one goal the rest of the way to seal the win for the Mavericks.
Mercy outshot the Redhawks 39-32, while Roberts Wesleyan held a 19-15 edge in groundballs. Mercy went 3-of-7 on man-up opportunities, while the Redhawks went 3-of-4.
Head Coach Jordan Levine and the Mavericks resume action on Tuesday, April 5th, hosting Dominican in an ECC matchup at 3 p.m.
