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\t\t\t\tScranton sophomore David Dubas attempts to knock the ball away from Bowdoin\u2019s Nico Schermer during an NCAA Division III men\u2019s lacrosse tournament game Saturday in Brunswick. Schermer scored on the play, and Bowdoin won, 16-6. (Cooper Sullivan\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n
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BRUNSWICK \u2014 Even the No. 2-ranked team in the nation gets jitters during the NCAA Division III men\u2019s lacrosse tournament.<\/p>\n
Those nerves Bowdoin felt didn\u2019t last longer than the first quarter Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Polar Bears (17-1) overcame a slow start and rolled to a 16-6 victory over Scranton (14-7) in the second round. Bowdoin will play either Amherst or Stevens at 3 p.m. Sunday in Brunswick.<\/p>\n
The visitors established their presence early with a physical style and superb goaltending from Carsen Kirchner (22 saves), as the Landmark Conference champs took a 2-1 lead with 6:24 left in the first quarter. <\/p>\n
A Scranton timeout shortly after the go-ahead goal gave Bowdoin a chance to regroup.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Coach Bill Mason) was like, \u2018All right, we got the jitters out. Let\u2019s go play.\u2019 And so I think after that, we played a lot more free,\u201d Bowdoin junior attack Chris Berry said. \u201cHe always says, \u2018Look for the spark play,\u2019 and I think we got a couple spark plays. Nico (Schermer) had a nice goal, Alex Byrne had a nice goal, Brooks (Kitchel), so three pole goals pretty much in succession, they fired us up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Polar Bears saw success when they trusted their simple reads and played as a connected unit. They scored nine straight goals from 2:38 left in the first quarter to 4:18 left in the second and took an 11-3 lead into the halftime break.<\/p>\n
Thirteen players scored for the Polar Bears, with two goals apiece from Casey Ryan, Sam-Raye Steiner and Hudson Greene. Berry, who scored Bowdoin\u2019s opening goal, led all players with five assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure exactly what the shooting percentage was today, but I know it probably wasn\u2019t great for me,\u201d Berry said. \u201cSo being able to dish it to other guys who I know (are) seeing the ball better, maybe, or can put it back in the back of the net, that is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bowdoin outshot Scranton 57-22 (38-20 on goal). The Polar Bears comfortably controlled the other facets of the game, winning the face-off battle (17 of 26, including seven straight by Phoenix Kelly-Zuckerman in the middle quarters) and the ground-ball margin (42 to 19). Bowdoin goalie Alec Delgado stopped 14 shots.<\/p>\n
Facing back-to-back games for the second-straight week, Berry and Schermer know the importance of focusing on recovery and remaining hungry for another win.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can definitely lean on that experience, the type of prep, recovery, sleep, just everything that we had last week (in the NESCAC tournament) and know that we just need to be a little bit better,\u201d Mason said. \u201cEspecially coming out of the first quarter into the second quarter, and relying on just our depth, our guys\u2019 ability to make the plays that are needed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quinn Carson led Scranton with three goals. Brendan Donahue scored once and assisted twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton sophomore David Dubas attempts to knock the ball away from Bowdoin\u2019s Nico Schermer during an NCAA Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-188227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188227","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=188227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}