{"id":126373,"date":"2026-03-01T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:01:15","slug":"lehigh-falls-to-bucknell-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126373\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Falls to Bucknell in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0 The Lehigh Mountain Hawks fell to the Bucknell Bison 12-11 on Saturday afternoon at the Ulrich Sports Complex. With the loss, Lehigh drops to 2-3 overall and 0-1 in Patriot League play. Bucknell improves to 5-1 overall and 1-0 in the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We weren&#8217;t good enough on faceoffs or ground balls today,&#8221; Lehigh head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/coaches\/will-scudder\/3450\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"3450\" target=\"_blank\">Will Scudder<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>First-year <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/finn-morgan\/20073\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20073\" target=\"_blank\">Finn Morgan<\/a> netted a game-high four goals in the loss and added two assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/luke-breslin\/20024\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20024\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Breslin<\/a> followed with three goals for Lehigh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/kasey-heath\/20036\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20036\" target=\"_blank\">Kasey Heath<\/a> made a season-high 15 saves in goal for the Mountain Hawks in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Bucknell scored the game&#8217;s first two goals, but <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/finn-morgan\/20073\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20073\" target=\"_blank\">Finn Morgan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/luke-breslin\/20024\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20024\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Breslin<\/a> each found the back of the net in the first quarter to tie the score 2-2 heading into the second quarter.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FINN MORGAN ties it 2-2 after one minute from the first goal\ud83d\ude24<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcfa: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aFSKlgqMZc\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/aFSKlgqMZc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cMH14IS7tX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cMH14IS7tX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 LehighMLAX (@LehighMLax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LehighMLax\/status\/2027780114738463048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 28, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfter <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/peter-theodoropoulos\/20057\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20057\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Theodoropoulos<\/a> gave Lehigh a 3-2 lead, the Bison scored four straight, taking a 6-3 lead into halftime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael Meyer, who finished with three goals, scored the opening goal of the second half to extend Bucknell&#8217;s lead to four.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh answered with five straight goals to take an 8-7 lead into the fourth quarter. <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/finn-morgan\/20073\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20073\" target=\"_blank\">Finn Morgan<\/a> scored twice during the run, while <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/andrew-kelly\/20039\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20039\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kelly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighsports.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/luke-winkler\/20061\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"20061\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Winkler<\/a> and Theodoropoulos each added a goal.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FINN MORGAN ties it 2-2 after one minute from the first goal\ud83d\ude24<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcfa: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aFSKlgqMZc\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/aFSKlgqMZc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cMH14IS7tX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cMH14IS7tX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 LehighMLAX (@LehighMLax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LehighMLax\/status\/2027780114738463048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 28, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\nBreslin opened the fourth-quarter scoring to give the Mountain Hawks a 9-7 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Bucknell responded by scoring four of the next six goals to tie the game at 11 with 3:14 remaining. Less than 30 seconds later, Will Hopkins scored the go-ahead goal for the Bison.<\/p>\n<p>Bucknell held off Lehigh over the final two minutes to secure the 12-11 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLehigh returns to action next Saturday when Boston University visits the Ulrich Sports Complex for a 2:30 p.m. game.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0 The Lehigh Mountain Hawks fell to the Bucknell Bison 12-11 on Saturday afternoon at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-126373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}