BOCA RATON, Fla. – The 15th-ranked Embry-Riddle men's lacrosse team suffered its first Sunshine State Conference loss of the season on Wednesday falling to Lynn (RV) 11-6 on the road. The Eagles struggled hold on to the ball in Wednesday's game as they matched their season-high turnover total with 22 in the loss.
Trey Dring led the Eagle offense with three goals, while
Carter Groezinger went the distance in the cage, collecting nine saves.
RECORDS
Embry-Riddle: 7-4, 3-1
Lynn: 7-3, 2-1
First Quarter
• Lynn scored the first goal of the game at the 10:20 mark, but the Eagles leveled the score less than a minute later thanks to an unassisted goal by
Christopher Harper.
• In a period where goals were tough to come by, the Eagles committed eight turnovers and one of those miscues led to another Lynn goal giving the home team a 2-1 edge.
Second Quarter
• The Eagles won five of the seven faceoffs in the second quarter.
• Lynn scored three times in the first eight minutes to increase their lead to 5-1.
• Dring scored twice in a 90-second span, but another Lynn goal gave the Fighting Knights a 6-3 advantage at the half.
Third Quarter
• The Eagles came storming back to start the third, shutting out the Fighting Knights for the first 11:30 of the period.
• The Blue and Gold got goals from
Christian Hofer and Dring during that span to cut the lead to 6-5.
• Lynn regrouped to score two in a row, but
Elek Zubor notched the first goal of his collegiate career to close the gap to two (8-6) heading into the fourth.
Fourth Quarter
• Lynn won the fourth quarter outscoring the Eagles 3-1 in the final 15 minutes.
• The Fighting Knights won the first faceoff of the period and scored three unanswered goals to go up 11-6.
• Embry-Riddle had four consecutive shots, but three went wide of the mark and the other was stopped by the Lynn goalkeeper.
• The Eagle defense held the Fighting Knights at bay over the last 7:17 of the game.
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Tim Keefe finished a pass from Hofer to close out the scoring with 11 seconds remaining.
UP NEXT
The Eagles are back on the road on Saturday, traveling to Saint Leo for a 3 p.m. game against the 13th-ranked Lions.
