St. John's Pulls Away in Second Half to Defeat Dartmouth

Tuesday, March 19

Queens, N.Y.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

2-4

St. John's

3-4

Dartmouth

St. John's

Daniel Hincks men's lacrosse action versus UMass

Freshman Daniel Hincks

Photo by: Belle Smart

St. John's Pulls Away in Second Half to Defeat Dartmouth

3/19/2019 5:52:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score Box Score Photos by Belle Smart

By: Charlotte Brackett

QUEENS, N.Y. – Dartmouth men's lacrosse suffered a 15-8 loss to St. John's in a mid-week road contest at DaSilva Field.

The Big Green (2-4) were led by Ben Martin with two goals and two assists, while Matt Paul and Harlan Smart had a pair of points apiece. Foster Burnley led the team with a season-high seven ground balls.

All three of Dartmouth's goalies saw time in net. Daniel Hincks played the first 38 minutes and made three saves during that time before making way for George Christopher, who made one stop. Alex Burnley made his season debut, playing the final minute.

"Today, St. John's was the better team," head coach Brendan Callahan said. "I give their goalie a lot of credit making 19 saves to keep us off the board when we had created some chances. I was happy to see our clearing get better, and we did a better job of limiting turnovers. We played too much defense in the second half and gave some talented shooters too many looks at the net. St. John's plays a different style than we have seen this year and we will learn a lot from this one as we head into Ivy play."

Despite a 12-6 shot advantage in the opening quarter, the Big Green found themselves trailing, 3-1, midway through due to some strong goaltending by Brody Agres. Fast forward to the final 1:42 and goals by Smart and George Prince less than a minute apart had tied things up, but a Red Storm (3-4) tally with 13 seconds to go put the home team up after the first 15 minutes (4-3).

St. John's took off in the second quarter, scoring three more markers in the first eight minutes to jump further ahead. Trevor Ballantyne ended the Red Storm's run at 3:12 with his third goal of the season to get the Big Green within three (7-4) to end the first half.

Dartmouth made it a one-goal game following tallies by Martin and Paul (7-6) at the start of the third, but an 8-2 St. John's rally over the next quarter and a half gave the win to the Red Storm. Smart and Martin added one more goal apiece in the fourth.

The Big Green outshot the Red Storm, 38-31.

Dartmouth will open Ivy League play on Saturday when it hosts Harvard.