Fairfield’s experience too much for Quinnipiac
By Marty Joseph, QBSN Staff Writer
The Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse team fell to Fairfield University, 9-6 at the Quinnipiac Lacrosse Turf Field in Hamden, Conn Wednesday afternoon.
Sophomore Dylan Webster (Brampton, Ont.) led the offense for the Bobcats (0-3) with four goals, and Brandon Kuring (New Milford, Conn.) had three assists. Michael Sagl (West Islip, N.Y.) had a goal and an assist, while Basil Kostaras (Southlake, Texas) and Matt Diehl (Towson, Md.) had a goal and an assist respectively.
The Stags (5-0) jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first quarter with goals by Drew Federico and Eric Warden in the opening five minutes of play. Colin McLinden assisted on Federico’s goal, as Warden scored unassisted.
The Bobcats played tough and refused to quit all afternoon against the No. 17 team in the nation. Webster was set up by Sagl with two minutes and 37-seconds remaining in the first quarter to cut the deficit in half for the Bobcats.
Webster added his second of the game to tie the game early in the second quarter before John Snellman single-handedly took over the game. Snellman scored a natural hat trick for the Stags in just a minute and 25-seconds to put the Stags up for good at 5-2. The hat trick was Snellman’s fourth of the season and third in as many games.
Sam Snow stretched the lead for Fairfield to 6-2 in the early stages of the second half. Webster netted his hat trick goal just over six minutes later off a pass from Diehl to cut the deficit to three.
Fairfield scored the next two goals of the game to end the third and open the fourth quarters, which took the wind out of the sails of the Bobcats. Federico’s assist on Brent Adams goal to make it 7-3, capped off his team leading four point performance on the afternoon.
The teams traded back to back-to-back goals in three consecutive possessions with just under five minutes remaining. Kostaras added his fifth goal of the season to make it 8-4.
The goal stretched Kostaras’s goal scoring streak to eight games. Reed Marko was rewarded with a goal after a strong defensive game on the afternoon just 23-seconds later to put the Stags back up by five. Webster capped off his afternoon with his fourth goal just 17-seconds after that to make it 9-5.
Sagl beat Fairfield goaltender Charlie Cipriano with 54-seconds remaining in the game to make it 9-6, where the game would end.
Cipriano improved to 5-0 on the season with 14 saves on the afternoon as Dylan Torey (Darien, Conn.) had his best game in his young career by keeping the Bobcats in the game from start to finish, stopping 17 shots in a losing effort.
“I thought we did a good job today,” head Coach Eric Fekete said. “We tried to focus our energy in the right direction, and as we cut the mistakes out and get more experienced and more mature I think it gets better and better. The team’s getting better everyday and I couldn’t ask for anything more because the team’s working really hard, and when you have young guys it’s a developmental process.”
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