BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian University men's lacrosse team scored five of the final seven goals to snap a 10-10 tie and record a 15-12 victory over Albright College on a rainy John Makuvek Field Wednesday evening as the Greyhounds earned their first win of the 2024 season. 

How It Happened

• The Hounds opened the scoring just over four minutes into the contest as graduate student attack Connor James netted an unassisted goal. Sophomore attack Ryan Kokoszka made it 2-0 just 40 seconds later off a pass from junior attack Dan Kelly. The Lions scored next before senior attack Trevor Dzama found the net off a pass from junior midfielder Vincent Devito. Albright scored again but the Blue & Grey would lead 4-2 after 15 minutes of action as Kelly put a feed from Dzama in the net late in the period
• The Lions began the second quarter with two goals to knot the contest at 4-4. Dzama restored Moravian's two-goal edge with a pair of goals in just under a minute. However, Albright scored twice to end the half including a goal with 17 seconds on the clock to send the teams to the intermission tied at 6-6
• Junior midfielder Aaron Judge had the Blue & Grey back on top just a minute and a half into the second half on a pass from Kokoszka, and senior attack Brennan Fluehr made it 8-6 when he found the goal off a Dzama pass. The Lions tallied a goal before Judge scored again. Albright netted two more tallies including one with ten seconds left to knot the score at 9-9. The Greyhounds had enough time on the clock as James beat the buzzer off a pass from Devito to put Moravian up 10-9 after 45 minutes of action. The goal for James was the 134th of his career, passing Mark Laratta '19 and the previous record of 133 goals
• Albright quickly tied the match for a fourth time less than two minutes into the fourth quarter. Judge gave the Hounds the lead for good at the 8:15 mark with a man-up goal on a pass from Dzama. Dzama netted a pair of goals to make the Blue & Grey lead 13-10 before the Lions cut the edge to a goal at 13-12 with 4:14 remaining. Kokoszka tallied a man-up goal and James sealed the victory with another marker at the 2:22 to finish the scoring

Inside the Numbers

• Moravian had eight players tally a point with Dzama leading the squad with five goals and four assists. Dzama's four assists put him six shy of 100 in his career
• James had a hat trick to go with two assists, and he now has 135 goals and 31 assists to sit fourth in program history with 166 career points
• Judge also had a hat trick while Kokoszka finished with two goals and an assist
• Kelly contributed a goal and an assist while Fluehr added one goal
• Devito registered three assists while junior midfielder Kyle Weiss had an assist to go with a pair of ground balls
• Junior goalie Thomas Lee posted 13 saves to earn his first win of the season
• Junior face-off specialist Gannon Mesko was 14-for-30 on face-offs, and he scooped up six ground balls while senior long stick midfielder Matt Baer had five ground balls and a pair of caused turnovers
• Junior defenders Jason Levy and Austin Hittle, junior midfielder Aden Moskovitz and sophomore defender Mike Sickler all contributed three ground balls while freshman defender Andrew Cassese and sophomore midfielder Frank Britsch both had two ground balls and a pair of caused turnovers
• The Hounds went 23-for-27 on clearing attempts, and the Blue & Grey were 2-for-3 on extra-man opportunities 

Up Next for the Greyhounds

• Saturday, March 9 at Immaculata University, 1:00 p.m.
• Wednesday, March 13 vs. Saint Joseph's (Maine) College, 2:00 p.m.