COLCHESTER, Vt. - Senior Drew Collins (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna) and sophomore Sebastian Simonson (Spruce Grove, Alberta/Spruce Grove Composite) both netted nine points to lead 14 goal scorers as the Saint Michael's College men's lacrosse team dispatched the University of Bridgeport, 25-6, on Saturday at Duffy Field in the first meeting between the same-named Purple Knight squads. Saint Michael's received a vote toward this week's United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) national poll.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (3-1), Bridgeport (1-5)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Collins, 7 goals, 2 assists, 4 ground balls
• Simonson, 2 goals, 7 assists (tied school record)
• Senior Max Katavolos (Newburyport, Mass./Newburyport), 3 goals, 2 assists, 2 ground balls
• Junior Dylan Morgan (Ashland, Mass./Ashland), 2 goals, 3 assists
• First-year Stephen Deutsch (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury), 1 goal (1st career), 2 assists, 4 ground balls
• Senior Alex Chirgwin (Queensbury, N.Y./Queensbury), 1 goal, 2 assists
• Sophomore Teddy Rice (Wayland, Mass./Wayland), 2 goals (1st career)
• Junior Nathan Woods (Ottawa, Ontario/Kent School), 1 goal, 1 assist, 2 ground balls, 2 caused turnovers
• Sophomore Matthew Frawley (Melrose, Mass./Melrose), 1 goal (1st career), 1 assist
• Junior Kevin Riggs (Plainville, Mass./King Philip Regional), 2 assists
• Junior Josh Jenkins (Tyngsboro, Mass./Bishop Guertin), 1 goal (1st career), 6-for-8 faceoffs
• First-year Sean Murphy (Medway, Mass./Medway), 1 goal (1st career), 2 ground balls
• Junior Robbie Sinibaldi (New Port Richey, Fla./J.W. Mitchell), 1 goal
• First-year Owen Balfour (Mashpee, Mass./Mashpee), 1 goal (1st career)
• First-year Aidan Clark (Ramsey, N.J./Ramsey), 1 goal (1st career)
• Sophomore Cooper Wilson (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna), 12-for-13 faceoffs, 9 ground balls
• Junior Rocky Grillone (Brockton, Mass./Cardinal Spellman), 5 ground balls, 3 caused turnovers
• Senior Brian Sardella (Billerica, Mass./Billerica Memorial), 3 ground balls, 2 caused turnovers
• Junior Lochlan Sheridan (Marblehead, Mass./Marblehead), 4 ground balls
• First-year Aidan Burns (Hopkinton, N.H./Hopkinton), 3-for-6 faceoffs, 2 ground balls
• First-year Matthew Bellis (Groton, Mass./Austin Prep), 2 caused turnovers
• Sophomore Sean Regan (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford Sutherland), 3 saves in 30 minutes, win
• Junior Spencer Scardino (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna), 1 save, 1 ground ball in 15 minutes of relief
• First-year Mike Nelson (Worcester, Mass./Auburn), 4 saves in 15 minutes of relief (college debut)

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Nick Whelan, 3 goals, 3 ground balls
• First-year James Napoli, 2 goals, 1 assist
• Sophomore Tyne Hewlette, 3 assists
• First-year Sean Napoli, 7-for-17 faceoffs, 9 ground balls, 2 caused turnovers
• First-year AJ Surian, 6 ground balls, 2 caused turnovers
• Junior Peter Nazario, 14 saves

GAME FACTS

• Saint Michael's held sizeable leads in shots (58-26) and ground balls (53-35) while forcing Bridgeport into 30 turnovers and a 13-for-27 clearance performance.
• Balfour, Clark, Deutsch, Frawley, Jenkins, Murphy and Rice all scored their first college goals.
• Saint Michael's handed out 24 assists on 25 goals, registering the most helpers by any Division II men's lacrosse team in 2023. No Northeast-10 Conference squad had as many assists since at least 2013, prior to the NCAA compiling a complete database.
• In all, 17 Saint Michael's players recorded points.
• Simonson recorded his fifth consecutive five-point game while tying a school record for assists, achieved four other times, most recently by Brian Loughlin '19 on April 13, 2019. Simonson posted the most assists by an NE10 player this year, exceeding the six Collins notched just last Sunday.
• Collins scored the most goals by a Purple Knight since Pete Donnally '13 had seven on March 23, 2013.
• Katavolos pushed his career point total to 98.
• Wilson moved into ninth in program history with 126 career faceoff wins.
• Sardella tied Bobby Frank '18 for eighth in program annals with 47 career caused turnovers.
• Saint Michael's is fourth in this week's New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (NEILA) poll.
• The Purple and Gold has now played four games in as many states this season.

THE ACTION

• Collins had three goals and one assist while Simonson turned in one goal and three assists en route to helping the homestanding Purple Knights lead 7-0 by 13:22 of the second quarter.
• A 6-0 run that bridged halftime featured four goals from Collins and was capped by Rice scoring his first college goal at 8:22 of the third, making it 14-2.
• Frawley (5:18), Jenkins (5:05) and Balfour (3:54) all tallied their initial career tallies in quick succession.
• In the fourth quarter, Deutsch netted his first at 9:15, Murphy put home a second effort with 6:44 left for his initial strike, and Clark potted his first goal at 4:23 off of junior Alex Daigneault's (Colchester, Vt./Colchester) feed, with the assist going as Daigneault's first college point in his first contest.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Next Saturday vs. Assumption University, 3 p.m.
• The Greyhounds received votes toward this week's NEILA rankings.