Cahill tallies six points to lead
Ravens
Box
Score
Brendan Cahill scored three goals and added three assists in the
win over Massachusetts Boston on Saturday.
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RINDGE, N.H. (March 13,
2010) – Freshman attacker Brendan Cahill
(Hollis, N.H.) scored three goals and added three assists
and junior attacker Nate Wood (Binghamton, N.Y.)
scored a game-high five goals on Saturday afternoon to lead the
Franklin Pierce University men's lacrosse team to 15-3 victory over
Massachusetts Boston in non-conference action at Sodexo Field. In
all, six different Ravens tallied three or more points in the
contest.
With the win, Franklin Pierce
improves to 2-0 (0-0 Northeast-10) and surpasses its win total from
a year ago. With the loss, Massachusetts Boston falls to 0-2 (0-0
Little East).
Franklin Pierce opened the game
with the first nine goals of the contest over the first 10:38 of
the first quarter. In that stretch, Cahill scored twice and added a
pair of assists, while Wood scored three goals. Sophomore
midfielder Ryan Dintaman (Northfield, Mass.)
picked up two assists in the first quarter and both sophomore
attacker Jimmy McInnis (Amherst, N.H.) and
freshman midfielder Scott MacDonald (Marshfield,
Mass.) each notched a goal and an assist. A goal by junior
midfielder John Scanlan (Great Neck, N.Y.) on a
feed from Dintaman just under five minutes into the game would
later prove to be the game-winner.
Massachusetts Boston got on the
scoreboard with 3:37 to play in the first quarter, when senior
attacker Dale Nunn popped home an unassisted score. Franklin Pierce
would make it 10-1 heading into halftime when Cahill scored on a
feed from McInnis with 4:54 to play in the second quarter. Franklin
Pierce attempted 21 shots in the first half to 20 for Massachusetts
Boston.
The two teams traded goals in the
third quarter, with Franklin Pierce emerging with a 13-3 lead. Wood
scored twice in the quarter, while McInnis added a goal and an
assist. Freshman attacker Ryan Cassidy and senior midfielder Al
Craven scored in the third period for Massachusetts Boston.
Franklin Pierce added goals from
Scanlan and MacDonald in the fourth quarter to create the 15-3
final. The Ravens finished the afternoon with a 44-35 advantage in
shots.
In net, junior goalkeeper
Shea Campbell (Centerport, N.Y.) made 13 saves to
pick up the win for Franklin Pierce. Freshman Jake Gostanian
stopped 10 shots between the pipes for Massachusetts Boston.
The Ravens return to the field on
Thursday, March 18, when they travel to Mercy for a non-conference
contest at 1 p.m.
