MOUNT OLIVE (April 13) – After featuring nine different goal scorers, the University of Mount Olive men's lacrosse team secured a 15-8 win over Emmanuel on Senior Day in Conference Carolinas action at Ray McDonald Sr. Sports Complex.
With the win, the Trojans earned a seven-straight victory and improve to 9-3 overall with a 6-0 mark in league play. Mount Olive officially claims a share of the Conference Carolinas regular season title and can secure it outright with a win over Barton next week. Additionally, UMO claimed the No. 1 seed in the Conference Carolinas Championship which will be hosted on the campus of Barton this season. Meanwhile, the Lions fell to 0-15 this season with a 0-6 record in the conference action.
Offensively, fifth-year
Chaz Goodman led the Trojans with a six-point performance behind one goal and five assists while also collecting three ground balls. Senior
Aidan Lalonde scored a team-high four goals, as he reached the 40-goal mark in his final season. Sophomore
Hudson Karasek netted a hat trick while senior
Elijah Cobb delivered a three-point performance (one goal, two assists) on Saturday.
Following a tightly contest first quarter with the score tied at 2-2 after 15 minutes of the play, the Trojan offense erupted with eight unanswered goals, led by Lalonde who scored a hat trick in the span of eight-plus minutes. Additionally, Goodman totaled four assists in the second, as UMO took a 10-2 lead in halftime.
In the third quarter, the Lions worked the deficit down to 11-4 in the opening minutes before UMO countered with three straight goals, as senior
Jack Lewis, Karasek, and senior
Chapman Parker all added to the score sheet, 14-4. Emmanuel managed to score four of the final five goals of the contest, but UMO sealed the win by a 15-8 margin.
Defensively, sophomore
Kurtis Lensing registered 11 saves in the win while playing 51-plus minutes in the cage. Junior
Davin Ikert finished with two caused turnovers and two ground balls while fellow junior
Alan Usher recorded one caused turnover and three ground balls.
Redshirt junior
Josh Mauer finished an impressive 17-of-21 on faceoffs and matched a team-high with nine ground balls alongside junior
Brady Laurance.
The Trojans out-shot the Lions by a 48-27 margin while finishing 19-of-24 clears.
Mount Olive is idle for nearly a week before closing out the regular season on Friday, April 19, on the road against Barton at 7 p.m.
