{"id":30376,"date":"2022-02-20T11:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=30376"},"modified":"2022-02-20T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T17:08:03","slug":"mens-lacrosse-terriers-take-down-19-bryant-behind-fourth-quarter-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/02\/20\/mens-lacrosse-terriers-take-down-19-bryant-behind-fourth-quarter-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Lacrosse: Terriers take down No. 19 Bryant behind fourth-quarter surge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Junior face-off man Conor Calderone takes a draw against Merrimack on Feb. 12, 2022. Calderone went 50% on face-offs against #19 Bryant on Feb. 19, and scored his first goal as a Terrier. JOE EACHUS \/ WTBU SPORTS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Joe Eachus<\/em><\/p>\n

The Boston University men’s lacrosse team battled their way to a 13-8 win over No. 19 Bryant on Saturday behind a dominant second-half team performance.<\/p>\n

The Terriers (2-0, 0-0 PL) and Bulldogs (1-1, 0-0 NEC) were neck-and-neck for much of the first half, until BU took the lead with 11 seconds to go and never relinquished it.<\/p>\n

“This was a team win,” BU head coach Ryan Polley said. “We were really good in a lot of places.”<\/p>\n

Senior midfielder Jake Cates led the Terriers with four goals, while junior attackman Vince D’Alto added a hat trick and one assist.<\/p>\n

“We’re gonna depend a lot on Jake to be a great player for us on a weekly basis, but he’s certainly capable and he proved that tonight,” Polley said.<\/p>\n

Sophomore attackman Bennett Abladian led the Bulldogs in scoring with a hat trick of his own,<\/p>\n

Junior face-off man Conor Calderone scored the game’s first goal 12 seconds in, taking a face-off win down the field for an unassisted score.<\/p>\n

From there, the Terriers and Bulldogs traded the lead for almost the entire first half, until two man-up opportunities for the Bulldogs in the second quarter threatened to let Bryant run away with the lead. BU’s man-down defense held, not allowing a goal over both man-up opportunities.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got to give a ton of credit to our man-down unit. … We ended up getting two stops in a row, keeping the score 6-4,” Polley noted.<\/p>\n

Once the second penalty expired, BU went on a 3-0 run to end the half, with senior attackman Timmy Ley scoring the go-ahead goal with 11 seconds on the clock.<\/p>\n

After halftime, Bryant continued to battle, evening up the score twice before BU was able to go on a 5-0 run from the late third quarter until the end of the game.<\/p>\n

BU had 18 shots on goal to Bryant’s 22, but senior goalie Matt Garber had a strong 14-save performance. Garber also added three ground balls to help the Terriers narrowly win the ground ball battle, 35-26.<\/p>\n

Calderone was also excellent once again at the face-off X, going 12-24 and winning 4-5 in the fourth quarter during the Terriers’ late-game run.<\/p>\n

“I’m really proud of Conor. … We were really concerned with the offense [Bryant] created off the face-off, so for [him] to battle for 50\/50 was a huge part of the game,” Polley also said.<\/p>\n

BU moves on to face UMass Amherst next Saturday on Nickerson Field, with face-off scheduled for 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Eachus The Boston University men’s lacrosse team battled their way to a 13-8 win over No. 19 Bryant on Saturday behind a dominant second-half team performance. The Terriers (2-0, 0-0 PL) and Bulldogs (1-1, 0-0 NEC) were neck-and-neck for much of the first half, until BU took the lead with 11 seconds to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19139,"featured_media":30191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1029,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30391,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376\/revisions\/30391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}