Seawolves Get First Conference Win Against Vermont

By William Lahti

The Stony Brook Men's Lacrosse team rebounded from their loss to UMBC and picked up their first conference win of the year against the Vermont Catamounts. The 13-9 victory moved SBU to 5-4 overall and 1-1 in-conference.

Stony Brook jumped out to an early lead, with Bobby Trenkle scoring on the first possession of the game. Vermont scored 2 goals over the next 7 minutes, killing a penalty along the way.

From there, SB took off and never looked back, scoring 12 of the next 13 goals. Ryan Hughes started it off, in a run that would see 7 Seawolves score. By the end of the first, goals were scored by Owen Adams, Kevin Crowley, Bo Tripodi, and Rhys Duch.

The beginning of the second quarter was back-and-forth, with the first goal coming from Vermont's Liam Thomas. Senior Michal Trojanowski countered with a goal for SBU within a minute. As the goal was scored, Vermont drew a penalty for unnecessary roughness. The Seawolves capitalized, with freshman Jordan McBride scoring a goal 20 seconds into the man-up opportunity. Adams then scored the last goal of the half.

SBU scored 4 goals in the first 4 minutes of the 3rd quarter, with 2 coming from McBride. After that, Vermont turned the tables. Vermont's Derek Lichtfuss scored 2 goals that quarter, but the Catamounts were still down 13-5.

In the 4th, Vermont went on a tear, scoring 4 goals to cut the deficit to 4 with 6:15 to play, with the last goal coming while a man down. However, their run stopped there, and the score would stay at 13-9.

SB's next game will be the second of their 2 home conference games. It is against Hartford at 7PM Saturday.