COLCHESTER, Vt. - The nationally-ranked Saint Michael's College men's lacrosse team held off Frostburg State University, 11-8, on Tuesday at Duffy Field. For the second straight week, the Purple Knights were 18th in the Inside Lacrosse national rankings and received votes toward the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) poll.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (5-1), Frostburg State (3-4)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Cooper Wilson (Niskayuna, N.Y./Niskayuna), 1 goal, 12-for-17 faceoffs, 5 ground balls
• Senior Cristian Reyes (Norwood, Mass./Xaverian Brothers), 5 goals, 1 assist, 3 ground balls
• Junior Sean Murphy (Medway, Mass./Medway), 2 goals, 1 assist, 3 ground balls, 3 caused turnovers
• Senior Sebastian Simonson (Spruce Grove, Alberta/Spruce Grove Composite), 1 goal, 2 assists
• Senior Ethan Hughes (Trumbull, Conn./Trumbull), 1 goal, 1 assist
• Sophomore Thomas Cahill (Georgetown, Mass./Georgetown), 1 goal, 1 assist
• Senior Sean Regan (Pittsford, N.Y./Pittsford Sutherland), 8 saves
• Sophomore Paul Mannke (Stoneham, Mass./Stoneham), 6 ground balls, 3 caused turnovers
• Junior Gavin Proutt (Baltimore, Md./Boys' Latin School of Maryland), 4 caused turnovers
• Sophomore Andrew Reynolds (Southport, Conn./Saint Joseph), 3 ground balls

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Sophomore Baylor Davis, 2 goals, 5 ground balls
• Sophomore JT Calhoun, 2 goals
• Senior Logan Covey, 13 saves
• Senior Seamus Kearney, 8 ground balls, 2 caused turnovers
• Senior Alex Walstrum, 5-for-11 faceoffs

GAME FACTS

• Wilson became the seventh active NCAA Division II player with 500 career faceoffs (508), and the only Northeast-10 Conference player on the list. He led the Purple Knights' 13-for-20 faceoff effort against the top-ranked faceoff squad in Division II, which entered the day winning 71.9% of its draws. Wilson's 12-for-17 performance featured holding Walstrum, who had the highest winning percentage among all NCAA Division I, II and III players (82.5%) while losing only 11 faceoffs all season, to a 5-of-11 showing. Senior Gregg Dort Jr., the Bobcats' second draw man who was 11th in Division II at 66.7%, went 2-for-9.
• Regan tied Mike Marino '97 for fourth in program history in career wins (18).
• The teams met for the first time.

THE ACTION

• Cahill, Simonson and Murphy scored during an early 2:54 flurry that gave the Purple Knights a 3-0 lead by 10:10 of the first quarter.
• Davis tallied twice in a 4-1 response, with first-year Jack Laye's buzzer-beating goal at end of the period tying the game.
• Reyes scored the only two second-quarter goals before assisting Murphy at 14:07 of the third to push the lead to 7-4.
• Calhoun broke the Bobcats' 20:06 drought with a man-up marker at 9:54 of the third before sophomore Jack Hooks scored 49 seconds later, but Hughes (4:19) and Reyes (2:02) responded in rapid succession later in the frame.
• Frostburg State never came closer than two goals from there, scoring only once between Hooks' strike and the final seconds of regulation.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at Southern New Hampshire University, 11 a.m.