Box Score SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--The Western New England University men's lacrosse team outscored visiting Roger Williams University 7-2 in the second half to earn an 11-4 victory Tuesday night over the Hawks in Commonwealth Coast Conference play at Golden Bear Stadium. Western New England has won seven-straight to up its record to 10-4 and 6-0 in the CCC, one-half game up on idle Endicott College for the conference lead. Roger Williams falls to 10-4 on the season and 4-2 in the conference.

Senior Jon Bota scored all three of his goals in the second half to help the Golden Bears pull away from a pesky RWU squad that trailed 4-2 at halftime. Junior Patrick Dillon and sophomore Justin Bard scored two goals apiece, and senior Dan McKenna and sophomore Keegan Dudeck both added a goal and two assists.

Tim Kelly led the RWU offense with a goal and an assist, and Will Siefert also had two points on assists. AJ Core, Jon Gomer and Doug Brown all came off the bench to account for the Hawks' other goals.

Western New England finished the first quarter with a 4-1 lead on two goals from Dillon, Bard and junior Mike Jednak. Core put RWU on the scoreboard with 6 minutes and 15 seconds remaining.

Kelly scored the only goal of the second quarter with 19 seconds left as WNE took a 4-2 lead going into halftime.

The Hawks got to within 4-3 on Gomer's 12th goal on an assist from Kelly with 8:53 to go in the third. Dudeck snapped WNE's scoring drought of nearly 25 minutes at the 5:39 mark and Bota followed with back-to-back goals at 4:17 and :04. The Golden Bears led 7-3.

Bota opened the fourth-quarter scoring with WNE's second man-up goal on the night in four opportunities for an 8-3 advantage. After Brown scored RWU's last goal at 10:20, WNE got insurance tallies from sophomore Max Berteletti, McKenna and Bard.

Senior goalie Brandon Body finished with 13 saves to move to 9-4 for WNE, which outshot RWU 47-34. Junior Wade Modestow was terrific at the face-off "X" by gaining game highs of six ground balls and 9-for-12 on face-offs.

Western New England will host arch-rival Endicott College at 4 p.m. Saturday in a showdown for first place in the CCC.

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