COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's lacrosse team lost to defending national champion Adelphi University, 19-4, on Saturday in both teams' Northeast-10 Conference openers on Duffy Field. The Purple Knights were 18th in this week's Inside Lacrosse national rankings and received votes toward the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) poll, while Adelphi was No. 1 in the former and No. 2 in the latter.
 
During a contest that featured two of the nine remaining undefeated Division II teams, senior Cooper Wilson (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna) broke the program record for career faceoff wins and classmate Cristian Reyes (Norwood, Mass./Xaverian Brothers) reached the 100-point milestone for his career.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (4-1, 0-1 NE10), Adelphi (7-0, 1-0 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Cristian Reyes (Norwood, Mass./Xaverian Brothers), 2 goals, 3 ground balls
• Senior Cooper Wilson (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna), 1 goal, 12-for-22 faceoffs, 5 ground balls
• Senior Sebastian Simonson (Spruce Grove, Alberta/Spruce Grove Composite), 2 assists, 4 ground balls
• Sophomore Thomas Cahill (Georgetown, Mass./Georgetown), 1 goal
• Junior Sean Murphy (Medway, Mass./Medway), 3 ground balls, 1 caused turnover
• Sophomore Taylor Wiercinski (Groton, Mass./Lawrence Academy), 3 ground balls, 1 caused turnover
• Junior Gavin Proutt (Baltimore, Md./Boys' Latin School of Maryland), 2 caused turnovers
• Senior Sean Regan (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford Sutherland), 16 saves in 45 minutes, loss
• Junior Mike Nelson (Worcester, Mass./Auburn), 3 saves in 15 minutes of relief

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Kyle Lewis, 3 goals, 3 assists
• Junior Ryan Bauco, 3 goals, 1 assist
• Sophomore Braden Donnellan, 2 goals, 2 assists
• Junior Noah Gibson, 3 goals
• Graduate student Dylan Renner, 8 saves in 49:32, win
• First-year Michael Hendrickson, 9-for-14 faceoffs, 7 ground balls
• Sophomore Ries Bower, 5 caused turnovers, 4 ground balls

GAME FACTS

• Wilson now has 496 career faceoff wins, eclipsing Justin Richmond's '21 prior school mark of 495. Wilson also already set school records for season faceoff wins and career and season ground balls.
• Reyes became the 25th player in program history to record 100 career points, totaling 94 over the last 32 games since the beginning of his sophomore season.

THE ACTION

• Lewis scored the opening goal at 11:15 of the first quarter before Wilson won the ensuing faceoff and tallied just six seconds later.
• Gibson tallied twice to key a 4-0 Adelphi response, but Simonson fed Cahill for a strike at 11:33 of the second period to make it 5-2.
• The Panthers answered with the next 11 goals through the end of the third quarter.
• Reyes scored twice in the fourth quarter, reaching the 100-point barrier on a goal at 12:16.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Tuesday vs. Frostburg State University, 1 p.m.