Timmy Ley cradles the ball while facing a Colgate defender
Matt Woolverton
11
Colgate COLGATE 1-3, 1-1 PL
16
Winner Boston University BU 4-1. 2-1 PL
Colgate COLGATE
1-3, 1-1 PL
11
Final
16
Boston University BU
4-1. 2-1 PL
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Colgate COLGATE 6 2 2 1 11
Boston University BU 3 3 4 6 16

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse |

Terriers Storm Back to Defeat Colgate, 16-11

BOSTON – Down by five early in the second quarter, the Boston University men's lacrosse team stormed back to earn a 16-11 win over Colgate Saturday afternoon at Nickerson Field.
 
Colgate (1-3, 1-1 PL) took an 8-3 lead with 9:22 left in the second quarter, but BU (4-1, 2-1 PL) scored 13 of the final 16 goals of the game to swing the scoreboard and earn its second straight win in conference play.
 
Junior Timmy Ley paced the attack with four goals as part of a five-point afternoon. Sophomore Vince D'Alto matched Ley with a five-point effort on three goals and two assists, while fellow sophomore Louis Perfetto also posted a multi-goal game with two scores and two assists. Freshman Tommy Bourque recorded the first two-goal game of his BU career while classmate Christian Quadrino added a goal and an assist.

Sophomores Anthony Forziati and Thomas Niedringhaus both found the back of the net, with their back-to-back strikes giving BU a 12-10 lead early in the fourth quarter. Junior Nik McFarland notched his first goal of the campaign while classmate Matt Hilburn also scored. Sophomore defender Patrick Morrison notched his first collegiate assist in addition to collecting two ground balls.
 
Sophomore Roy Meyer led the defense with a career-high four caused turnovers and freshman Dane DeGoler scooped up a career-best five ground balls to lead the squad. In addition, sophomore Robert Gallop gathered a career-best four ground balls. Junior Matt Garber made 11 saves, including four in the fourth quarter, to earn his fourth win of the season. Seniors Kevin Snyder and Sean Christman came up big in the final 15 minutes, as they combined to go 5-of-8 at the faceoff X in the fourth quarter.

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Ley answered an early Colgate goal when he worked from behind the cage before pivoting past a defender and finishing outside the crease to tie the game at 1-1.
  • Colgate capped a 3-0 run with a man-up goal to pull ahead, 4-1, with 5:55 to play in the opening frame.
  • D'Alto and Ley went for back-to-back solo strikes within a 37-second span to cut the gap to one, but the Raiders went on their own 2-0 run to take a 6-3 edge at the end of the first quarter.
  • Colgate tacked on another pair of scores before Ley caught Colgate goalkeeper Sean Collins (15 saves) sleeping on the clear and slashed the ball out of his stick. Perfetto was in perfect position for the scoop and score to spark a 3-0 run to end the half.
  • Ley and McFarland each snapped the back of the net as part of that run that cut the gap to 8-6 heading into the break.
  • Bourque and D'Alto kept the Terriers within one until D'Alto five-holed the keeper to tie the score, 9-9, with 5:20 left in the third.
  • Colgate briefly retook the lead, but Hilburn was timely with his first goal of the season on an EMO to knot it at 10-10 as the third quarter came to a close.
  • Perfetto found Forziati in front of the crease for the go-ahead goal just 24 seconds into the fourth frame before Niedringhaus and Perfetto furthered the lead to three, 13-10, with 10:38 to play.
  • The Raiders got back within two with a goal in transition, but Ley delivered a highlight-reel behind-the-back goal to keep the Raiders from getting any closer.
  • Quadrino and Bourque closed out the game with unassisted markers to finalize the 16-11 score.
GAME NOTES
  • All six starting offensive players for BU notched at least one point.
  • Ley extended his goal scoring streak to 20 straight games.
  • He leads BU with 24 goals and is first on the squad with 29 points, just one ahead of D'Alto (16g, 12a).
  • Perfetto is tied with D'Alto for the team lead in assists with 12 and has notched an assist in all 11 career games with BU.
  • D'Alto has notched at least one point in all 11 of his games as a Terrier.
  • Forziati has scored in two straight games and three of the last four fixtures.
  • BU went a perfect 23-for-23 in clear attempts while forcing the Raiders into seven failed clears (20-of-27).
  • Junior Will Carson had four ground balls and was one of six Terriers to cause at least one turnover.
  • Meyer now leads BU with 11 caused turnovers.
  • The Terriers finished with 34 ground balls to 31 for Colgate. 
  • BU has scored a man-up goal in all five games this year.
UP NEXT
  • The Terriers will hit the road and visit Lafayette on Saturday, March 27.
  • Game time is set for noon.
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