This past Saturday, Marist men’s lacrosse defeated the Canisius Golden Griffins 20-16, earning their first MAAC victory of the season.
The Red Foxes (4-3, 1-1 MAAC) won behind a high-powered offensive display, led by junior attackman Jake Deacy and graduate student midfielder Stephen Bickel, both of whom recorded hat-tricks against Canisius (2-6, 0-2 MAAC). Marist had seven different multi-goal scorers in the game.
The hat trick from Deacy is his third of the season and his second in two games. Freshman midfielder Christian Colantonnio tallied a team-high five points (2 goals, 3 assists) on the day.
Marist opened up the game with a string of four straight goals behind Bickel’s pair of scores; freshman midfielder Sean Mullan and Deacy then followed suit. The Golden Griffins responded with a 4-2 goal-scoring run, capped off by freshman attackmen Mason Wolford with four seconds left in the first quarter.
The Red Foxes opened up the second quarter with a goal from freshman long-stick midfielder Michael Cassano, his first collegiate goal. That was answered by a pair of goals from twin brothers, sophomore midfielders Dylan and Devin Collins, cutting the Red Foxes’ lead to one. Goals from Colantonio and Deacy leveraged the Red Foxes to a 10-7 halftime lead.
In the middle of the third quarter, the Red Foxes tallied three straight goals in three minutes, giving the Red Foxes their biggest lead of the day, 14-9. At the end of the third quarter, Canisius scored two straight goals in the last minute to cut their deficit to three.
The fourth quarter was filled with 11 goals between the two teams. Canisius’s Wolford added two goals for his team in the fourth quarter, but a little too late, as six different Red Fox goal scorers lifted Marist to a 20-16 victory.
At the faceoff “X,” Marist junior midfielder Dylan Bedell played a big part in the victory by winning 21 of 37 faceoffs (57%), in addition to tallying a goal. Bedell earned the MAAC Face-off Specialist of the Week award for his stellar play.
After this week’s win, the team will arguably have one of their toughest challenges of the season as they take on Quinnipiac, ranked first in the MAAC thus far, on Saturday, March 23. Opening faceoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Tenney Stadium.
Edited by Marley Pope and Luke Sassa
Graphic by Cara Lacey; Photo from Marist Athletics
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