March 16, 2005

Box Score

Newark, DE - The Georgetown University fifth ranked men's lacrosse team (3-1) narrowly defeated the University of Delaware 9-8 Wednesday evening, March 16 at Rullo Stadium.

Delaware (4-3), which had a two-game win streak snapped, led 6-2 midway through the second quarter and still led 7-6 with 3:46 left in the third quarter before the Hoyas finished off the comeback. Garrett Wilson broke a 7-7 tie on a goal with 12:28 left to play and Matt McBride tallied what proved to be the game-winner with 4:24 remaining to save the Hoyas.

After Georgetown's Brice Queener opened the scoring on a goal just 1:22 into the game, the Blue Hens answered back, scoring four straight goals, including one each by Dan Deckelbaum and Dave Powers, to take a 4-1 lead early in the second quarter.

After Georgetown's Dave Paolisso scored to cut the lead to 4-2, the Hens got goals again by Deckelbaum and Powers just three minutes apart to go up 6-2 with 8:48 left in the opening stanza. Georgetown narrowed the halftime margin to 6-4 on goals by Nick Miaritis and McBride in the final four minutes of the stanza.

The Hoyas came out strong in the second half, tying the game at 6-6 when Trevor Casey scored just 14 seconds into the half and Andrew Baird scored an extra-man goal with 7:17 remaining. Powers gave the Hens their last lead of the night at 7-6 when he took a feed from Cam Howard and finished off his third hat trick of the season with a goal with 3:46 left in the third quarter.

Georgetown's Pete Cannon scored with just six seconds left in the third stanza to tie the game at 7-7 and the Hoyas went up for good as Wilson and McBride tallied for the 9-7 lead. Delaware gave it one last shot, pulling to within one at 9-8 when Andy Hipple scored with 20 seconds left but couldn't score again.

Georgetown won its second straight as McBride scored two goals, Cannon had a goal and two assists, and Sean Denihan had two assists. Goalkeeper Rich D'Andrea stopped 10 shots. Georgetown held a 45-28 advantage in shots.