BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian College men's lacrosse team dropped a hard-fought, non-conference match, 13-12 in double overtime, to visiting Immaculata University at Rocco Calvo Field Wednesday.
The Greyhounds, now 10-4 overall, were playing their final home game of the season and honored senior midfielders Dave Fiumara and Pat Moscatello before the contest.
"While we were able to score some goals today, we had a lack of execution of our game plan on defense and weren't able to get some timely saves that ended up costing us in the end," said Head Coach Dave Carty.
Freshman attack Mark Laratta led Moravian with six goals and an assist as he tied the school record with 38 goals on the season. He also moved into fourth with 47 points this spring. Freshman attack James Carroll contributed three goals and two assists as he raised his season totals to 36 goals and 43 points.
Freshman midfielder Christopher Klodowski had a goal and an assist for the Blue and Grey while freshman attack Jack Gozzard and Fiumara each scored one goal. Freshmen midfielders Rick Guerra and Alec Oriolo each contributed one assist with Guerra winning 8-of-12 face-offs.
Freshman goalie Kurt Dick made nine saves for Moravian while freshman midfielder Hayden DuPont had a team-high eight ground balls after winning 9-of-16 face-offs. Freshman defender John Polich added six ground balls, and junior defender Ed Delia had five ground balls while causing three turnovers. Freshman defender Brian Biase also had three caused turnovers to go with four ground balls while freshman defender Anthony Pontone scooped up three loose balls and two caused turnovers and Oriolo had a pair of caused turnovers and two ground balls.
The Mighty Macs scored the first two goals of the match before Laratta tied the contest at 2-2 with 6:45 left in the first quarter. Laratta scored again but the Hounds trailed 4-3 after 15 minutes of action. Moravian scored the first five goals of the second quarter with Laratta making the lead 8-4 with 4:45 before the intermission but a pair of man-up goals from Immaculata had the Blue and Grey leading 8-6 at halftime.
The squads traded goals in the third quarter with Laratta scoring with Moravian a man-down and Klodowski finding the cage with the Hounds a man-up as Moravian led 11-9 after 45 minutes of action. Laratta netted his sixth goal of the afternoon just over four minutes into the final period for a 12-9 lead but the Might Macs scored three times in the final five minutes to force overtime. The squads were scoreless in the first four minute extra session before Immaculata found the cage with the game winner with just 48 seconds left in the second overtime.
Moravian will close out its 2016 regular season on Saturday, April 23 in a non-conference match at Drew University beginning at 1:00 p.m.
