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Box Score

UMBC UMBC 8-4, 3-3 AE

NJIT NJIT 2-9, 0-6 AE

UMBC UMBC

8-4, 3-3 AE

Final

Apr. 22, 2023

NJIT NJIT

2-9, 0-6 AE

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
UMBC UMBC	5	3	1	3	12
NJIT NJIT	1	3	4	2	10

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | 4/22/2023 8:48:00 PM

Men's Lacrosse Battles In Tough Defeat To UMBC

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NEWARK, N.J. — The NJIT men's lacrosse team hung tough with its latest matchup but were unable to pick up the victory in a 12-10 America East defeat against the UMBC Retrievers Saturday afternoon at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.

HIGHLIGHTS

Owen Corry tied for the lead among all scorers with three goals while Jack Bowie was the only other Highlander with multiple goals (2) and three total points with an added assist. Five other Highlanders added goals against UMBC - Logan Hone, Garrett Muscatella, Gavyn Willson, Isaac Vanzomeren, and Will Labartino - while Brandon Wasitowski was the only other NJIT player with multiple points after assisting on a pair of goals.
Vanzomeren (8-14, 7 GB) and Billy Kroeger (6-12, 3 GB) were each .500 or better from the faceoff X and accounted for ten of the Highlanders' 16 ground balls
Liam Brown made 14 saves against UMBC, moving his season total to 179.

1ST QUARTER

Bowie connected with Hone at the 10:12 mark to tie the match at 1-1 but the Highlanders found themselves down 5-1 by the end of the half after the Retrievers closed the period on a 4-0 run.

2ND QUARTER

UMBC scored two of the first three goals of the second to takes its largest lead of the game (7-2) with 6:14 left in the half but NJIT mirrored the Retrievers on the back end with two-of-three goals to close the half (Willson from Wasitowski at 4:04 and Corry with 53 seconds left) to keep the deficit at four (8-4) at the half.

3RD QUARTER

Less than a minute and a half into the second half, an unassisted Bowie score brought UMBC's lead down to 8-5 (13:31). UMBC would push back ahead by four, 9-5 with a goal at the 11:09, but a flurry of goals were on the way for the Highlanders that would change the complexion of the game.
Corry would score his second goal with 10:27 on the clock and spark a three-goal surge over 41 seconds that moved the Highlanders from down three to behind by just one goal (9-8) for the first time since the midpoint of the first quarter. Solo strikes from Vanzomeren (10:13) and Muscatella (9:46) followed Corry's in the exciting sequence.
The NJIT defense complemented the Highlanders' newfound firepower by keeping the Retrievers scoreless over the final 11 minutes of the period.

4TH QUARTER

The shutout stretch for the Highlanders continued for the first two minutes of the fourth before UMBC scored their tenth goal and went ahead 10-8 with 12:57 remaining in the contest.
Labartino's goal off a Ryan Sininsky assist brought NJIT back within one (10-9, 10:58) and Corry tied the game for the first time since the first (10-10) with the help of Wasitowski with 7:16 to go.
However, the Highlanders could not replicate its shutout efforts from the third as UMBC would score about a minute later and add an insurance goal near the end.

OTHER NOTES

Corry's hat trick was the third of the season and sixth of his career.
Today was the second game this year that Wasitowski recorded multiple assists (none in two previous seasons).
Saturday's game was NJIT's cleanest of the year in terms of penalties - the Highlanders were only called for one infraction and there were only three flags thrown between the two teams.
Brown's 179 saves place him second all-time at NJIT, passing the 178 stops Nick Marzullo made in 2016.

SENIOR DAY

On Friday, the team began a new tradition of honoring its senior class at a private reception with the coaches, family, friends and support staff. The nine Highlanders that were recognized were: Matthew Bowerman, Liam Brown, Owen Corry, Keegan Ford, Beck Gozdenovich, Nick Gutierrez, Bill Kroeger, Josh Schreibeis, and Gavyn Willson.