Big Green Open 2016 with 10-8 Road Loss to Sacred Heart

Saturday, February 20

Fairfield, Conn.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

0-1

Sacred Heart

2-1

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Dartmouth	0	3	3	2	8
Sacred Heart	2	1	2	5	10

Big Green Open 2016 with 10-8 Road Loss to Sacred Heart

2/20/2016 3:12:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – After mounting a comeback in the second and third quarters following a scoreless first, the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team ultimately fell to Sacred Heart, 10-8, in the season-opener on Saturday.

Senior Cameron Lee scored the Big Green's first goal of the season and was one of three Dartmouth players to end the day with three points. He had two goals and an assist, junior Wiley Osborne had one goal and two helpers and freshman Will Randell opened his collegiate career strongly with one tally and a pair of assists.

It took exactly eight minutes for either team to get on the board in the first quarter – thanks to aggressive, back-and-forth action and good defense – but it was Sacred Heart (2-1) that broke the stalemate with a Bryce Jurk goal. With 4:55 remaining, Joe Saggese found the back of the net to increase the Pioneers' lead to two. Senior Blair Friedensohn had three saves in the low-scoring quarter.

Sacred Heart would make it 3-0 five minutes into the second, but Dartmouth (0-1) soon turned things around to take the lead. With 9:15 left on the clock and just 44 seconds after the Pioneer goal, Lee scored the Green's first marker of the season. Tallies by Randell and sophomore Evan Key a minute and a half apart tied the score at three-all, which would be how the score would remain for the last six minutes of action.

Dartmouth kept the momentum going into the third and, before long, was sporting a 6-3 lead thanks to goals by KC Beard, Harrison McCarthy and Cody George, with Beard's being the only man-up marker of the game for either team. After keeping Sacred Heart scoreless for over 20 minutes, the Pioneers got two in quick succession to lessen the Green's lead (6-5).

The fourth quarter was where things got interesting. Sacred Heart outscored Dartmouth, 5-2, tying the score twice before taking a two-goal lead with 4:30 left on the clock, an edge the Pioneers would manage to hold on to until the end of the game.

Sacred Heart outshot Dartmouth, 23-13, and went 18-for-22 in face-offs. The Green were 1-for-2 with the extra man and held the Pioneers to 0-for-3. Friedensohn stopped 13 shots in the loss, while Sacred Heart's A.J. Boyd had eight.

Next Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 27-28, Dartmouth will head to Colorado for the Denver Pioneer Classic, facing Air Force at 1 p.m. on Saturday before taking on host Denver at 3:30 p.m. the next day.