Box Score
Scoring Summary
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The Western New England men's lacrosse team completed a perfect season in the Commonwealth Coast Conference with a 20-5 victory over visiting Curry Saturday afternoon (Apr. 21).
The Golden Bears, ranked 18th nationally, improved their record to 10-3 overall and 7-0 in the conference. WNE closes out its regular season at city rival Springfield on Wednesday (April 25).
Twelve individuals scored goals and 18 players scored points as Western New England held a commanding 54-19 advantage in shots.
Senior midfielder
Joe O'Keefe (Branford, CT) led the way with three goals and an assist. Junior attacker
Corbett Corrigan Harreys (Essex, CT) and sophomore attacker
Adam Knapton (Canandaigua, NY) each tallied three times.
Senior attacker P
atrick White (Milton, CT) contributed a pair of goals and assists while junior midfielder
James Reardon (Longmeadow, MA) scored twice.
Curry took an early 1-0 lead when junior midfielder
Joseph Natale (Haverhill, MA) scored just 2:18 into the game. It was 2-2 after the opening period before the Golden Bears outscored their guests by a 6-1 margin to take an 8-3 lead at the break.
Western New England ran off six answered goals at one point in the third quarter for a 15-4 lead.
Senior
Joe Martin (Springfield, MA) took 12-of-13 face-offs while classmate
Josh Tullis (Medford, NY) was 8-of-9 and sophomore
Jesse DeLucca (East Lyme, CT) 5-for-5. Martin finished with eight ground balls while junior midfielder
Corey Johnson (Maybrook, NY) picked-up seven.
Freshman goalie
Brandon Body (Newtown, CT) made five saves and allowed five goals in 50 minutes to raise his record to 5-0.
Curry freshman attacker
John Castellano (Scarsdale, NY) notched a pair of goals while Natale finished with a goal and assist.
Sophomore defender
Jimmy Mascioli (Arlington, MA) had three ground balls. Senior goalie
Michael Hibbard (North Chelmsford, MA) compiled 14 saves.
Martin, O'Keefe, Tullis, White,
Brewster Knowlton (Somers, CT),
Liam Bokanovich (Sandwich, MA),
Nick Jez (Somers, CT),
Andrew Mariani (East Brunswick, NJ),
Jonathan Roy (Lewiston, ME).
Western New England also honored the 1987 Golden bears team during its 25th Anniversary of winning the progrm's first Pilgrim League Tournament title. The coach was
Joel Castleman who is a member o the school's Downes Athletic Hall of Fame.
Contact: Ken Cerino, Western New England athletic communications director (413) 782-1227
kcerino@wne.edu
