LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. \u2014 Caden Olmstead had a career-high seven points with six goals, the defense kept the pressure on, and Siena Men\u2019s Lacrosse rolled past Manhattan 15-9 on Saturday at Hickey Field to pick up a conference victory.<\/p>\n
The Saints (6-2, 2-0 MAAC) also received two goals and four assists from Patrick Radomski, two goals and three assists from Conor Hufnagel, and two goals and an assist from Gavin Blenk.<\/p>\n
Manhattan (2-6, 0-2 MAAC) was led by Connor Engel, who scored four times, and Sean Shelko, who had three goals.<\/p>\n
Siena\u2019s defense was spearheaded by Jacob Wells, who had a team-high four caused turnovers and two ground balls, while Riley Hegarty contributed with three caused turnovers and three ground balls.<\/p>\n
The Saints were propelled by a dominant first quarter, in which they scored seven goals, setting the tone for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n
Siena took an early lead against the Jaspers in the first quarter, with Caden Olmstead opening the scoring at 14:27, assisted by Conor Hufnagel.<\/p>\n
The Saints continued their aggressive offense as Patrick Radomski and Nikolas Barbero added goals, with Radomski\u2019s goal assisted by Olmstead at 12:31.<\/p>\n
Olmstead struck again at 8:32, this time assisted by Riley Hegarty, extending the lead.<\/p>\n
Manhattan\u2019s Connor Engel responded with a goal at 7:19, but Olmstead completed his hat trick at 5:58.<\/p>\n
Despite another goal from Engel with a man-up advantage, the Saints\u2019 Conor Hufnagel scored at 3:41, assisted by Radomski, and Olmstead capped the quarter with his fourth goal at 00:13, securing a 7-2 lead for the home team.<\/p>\n
In the second quarter, Siena capitalized on an early extra-man opportunity with Olmstead scoring from a Radomski assist at 14:46. Manhattan responded with Sean Shelko\u2019s goal at 7:07, narrowing the gap.<\/p>\n
Engel added another for the Jaspers at 3:29, with Shelko scoring again at 2:11 to bring the visitors closer.<\/p>\n
Despite several attempts by both teams, including multiple saves by Siena\u2019s Vito DeBellis, the quarter concluded with Siena maintaining an 8-5 lead.<\/p>\n
Siena extended its lead in the third quarter with a series of efficient plays. Radomski opened the scoring at 14:40 with a goal assisted by Liam Lennon. Shortly after, Olmstead netted another goal at 14:13, thanks to an assist from Gavin Blenk. Blenk found the back of the net himself at 7:41, further increasing Siena\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n
Manhattan responded with a goal by Liam Peabody at 6:24, but the Saints\u2019 Patrick Linton answered with a goal at 4:10, assisted by Hufnagel, to keep the momentum on the home team\u2019s side.<\/p>\n
By the end of the quarter, Siena held a commanding 12-6 lead over Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Siena began the fourth quarter with momentum, as Gavin Blenk scored just 39 seconds in, following a faceoff win by Logan Banek. Travis Fry added another goal at 10:08, extending Siena\u2019s lead. Hufnagel found the net at 6:33, assisted by Liam Lennon, maintaining the offensive pressure.<\/p>\n
Manhattan responded with a man-up goal from Engel at 5:25, and Sean Shelko added another shortly after, reducing the deficit. Alex Bales\u2019 goal at 2:07 brought Manhattan closer, but Siena\u2019s defense held, securing a 15-9 victory.<\/p>\n
Next up, Siena will play at Marist (4-2, 2-0 MAAC) on Wednesday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. \u2014 Caden Olmstead had a career-high seven points with six goals, the defense kept the pressure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[11496,75,84,83,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-170993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-college-sports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}