Lee Ferris

Box Score

Alvernia ALVERNIA 1-1

Mt. St. Mary (N.Y.) MSMC-M 1-0

Alvernia ALVERNIA

1-1

Final

Feb. 25, 2023

Mt. St. Mary (N.Y.) MSMC-M

1-0

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
Alvernia ALVERNIA	1	2	1	0	4
Mt. St. Mary (N.Y.) MSMC-M	5	2	0	3	10

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | 2/25/2023 9:12:00 PM

Knights Take Season Opener From Alvernia

Gallucci posts five points to lead offense

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Newburgh, N.Y. – Sal Gallucci (Massapequa, N.Y.) totaled five points and Maxwell Green Wright (Central Islip, N.Y.) finished with four points as the Mount Saint Mary College Men's Lacrosse team opened the 2023 season with a 10-4 home victory over Alvernia Saturday afternoon.

Mount Saint Mary moves to 1-0 with Saturday's victory, while Alvernia drops to 1-1 through its first two contests of the year.

How It Happened

Mount Saint Mary broke the game open in the first period, scoring five of the six goals in the stanza.
Gallucci and Nick Gurello (Selden, N.Y.) each scored their first goals of the season in the initial four minutes of the tilt to give the Knights an early 2-0 lead.
Following an Alvernia man-up goal cut the advantage to a single shot, the Knights got two straight goals from Green Wright and a Mike Travers (Staten Island, N.Y.) man-up tally to close out the scoring in the first quarter. Gallucci assisted on the second Green Wright tally and the Travers marker to close out a three-point quarter.
Each team scored twice in the second frame with Alvernia pulling to within 5-3 with the first two markers of the quarter.
Gurello scored his second of the game to push the Knights in front 6-3 ahead of a Joe Keating (Pleasantville, N.Y.) tally, off a feed from Green Wright, to send the Knights to the intermission leading 7-3.
Mount Saint Mary finished the opening half with a 19-9 advantage in shots.
The Knights held a 17-14 edge in groundballs prior to halftime.
Alvernia won six of the 11 face-offs taken prior to the break.
Goals were at a premium after halftime, with the teams combing for just four markers.
The Golden Wolves found the only goal of the third period, a Peter Capasso tally, to bring them to within 7-4 heading into the final frame.
Mount Saint Mary scored the only three goals of the fourth period to pull away for the six-goal lead.
Gurello finished off a hat trick at the 12:39 mark, burying a pass from Gallucci to make the score 8-4.
Keating scored his second of the game with 5:49 left to play to open a 9-4 lead.
Gallucci rounded out his big day with his second goal of the contest, finishing off a pass from Green Wright, to close out the scoring in the game.

For The Knights

Galucci scored twice and assisted on three other goals.
Green Wright scored twice and assisted on two goals, adding three groundballs and a caused turnover.
Gurello recorded a hat trick and totaled four groundballs and two caused turnovers.
Keating tallied twice and collected two groundballs.
Travers scored once and recorded one assist.
Anthony Paggiotta (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) won six face-offs and scooped five groundballs.
Tim Doyle (Selden, N.Y.) picked up five groundballs.
Joseph Angelillo (Pompton Plains, N.J.) caused two miscues and picked up four groundballs.
Carmine Comitini (Staten Island, N.Y.) forced two turnovers and secured three groundballs.
Making his collegiate debut, Kenny Leen (Miller Place, N.Y.) earned the win in goal with four saves.

For Alvernia

Colin McFadyen led the Golden Wolves with two goals, adding two groundballs.
Capasso finished with a goal and an assist, adding three groundballs.
Christian Wright led all players in the game with 10 groundballs.
Jack Kenney went 11-for-17 in face-offs and earned six groundballs.
Dane Sabarese made nine saves in goal.

Game Statistics

Mount Saint Mary closed the day with a 28-19 advantage in shots, including a 19-8 edge in shots on goal.
Groundballs went to the Knights 38-33.
Alvernia won 11 of the 17 face-offs in the game.
Alvernia scored twice with the man advantage.
Mount Saint Mary went 1-for-2 with the extra man.
The Knights went 16-for-20 in clearing chances.
Alvernia finished 12-for-19 in clearing opportunities.

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