Ferreira's six goals and seven points lead Ravens to
their first win of the season
Boxscore
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Luke Ferreira matched his career
high with six goals at Rollins on Sunday.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. (March
16, 2008) - Senior captain Luke
Ferreira (Farmington, Maine/ Mount Blue) tied his career
high with six goals as Franklin Pierce University earned its first
victory of the season with a 13-10 win over Rollins College in
non-conference men's lacrosse action on Sunday afternoon at
Showalter Field.
Ferreira came one goal short of
tying the program's single-game record of seven, achieved on two
occasions by Jimmy Ward '04, and added an assist for a career
high-tying seven points. The Ravens also received offensive support
from sophomore Lucas Hamory (Canton,
Mass./Canton), who set new career highs with three goals
and two assists for five points, and junior Jason Flanigan
(Shrewsbury, Mass./Shrewsbury), who found the net twice.
Senior captain Russell
Hodson (Chilmark, Mass./Martha's Vineyard) also had a good
day for the Ravens, scoring once and dominating the face-off
position by winning 15 of his 21 draws on the afternoon.
Four Rollins players had two goals
apiece for the Tars. Sophomore Christopher Gorman (Casselberry,
Fla./Lake Howell) added four assists to his pair of goals for a
team-high six points, while classmate Charlie Shelly (Parkland,
Fla./Woodberry Forest) had two goals and two assists for four
points.
Freshman goaltender D.A.
Ivie (Alpharetta, Ga./Blessed Trinity) made his first
career start for Franklin Pierce and earned his first collegiate
victory by making four saves on 14 shots. The Ravens kept freshman
goalie Zach Cole (Rumford, R.I./Moses Brown) very busy on the other
end, putting 31 shots on net and forcing Cole into 18 saves.
Rollins came out strong, scoring
the first three goals of the game, and held a 5-2 lead 6:07 into
the second period after Gorman's first of the day. Ferreira
single-handedly brought the Ravens back, however, scoring five of
the game's next six goals to turn the team's three-goal deficit
into a 7-6 lead with 8:36 remaining in the third quarter.
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Lucas Hamory posted a career-high
five points on three goals and two assists at Rollins on
Sunday.
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The game was knotted at seven when
Franklin Pierce scored three consecutive goals to take a 10-7 lead,
led by the first career tally for freshman Jon Martinez
(Waterbury Center, Vt./Rice Memorial) and one from Hodson
only 19 seconds apart. A quick counter attack by Hamory
lengthened the Raven lead to three heading into the fourth quarter.
The Tars came back with three goals
of their own to re-tie the game at 10, capped by a man-down goal
from Andy Katz (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand) with 5:22 left in the
game, but the Ravens responded with the final three goals of the
afternoon to earn the victory. Flanigan notched the game-winning
tally 31 seconds after Katz's score, and insurance tallies by
Hamory and Flanigan provided the final margin.
Franklin Pierce (1-1, 0-0 NE-10)
will complete its brief two-game Florida swing on Tuesday evening,
when the Ravens travel west to Saint Leo, Fla., to take on Saint
Leo University beginning at 7 p.m. Rollins (2-6, 0-1 SSC) returns
to action on Monday afternoon when the team hosts Dominican
College (N.Y.) at 3 p.m.
