{"id":502441,"date":"2026-03-04T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502441\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:31:10","slug":"conn-college-uses-big-third-quarter-to-down-mens-lax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502441\/","title":{"rendered":"Conn College Uses Big Third Quarter to Down Men&#8217;s Lax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/salve_seahawk_head_3C.png\" alt=\"Salve Regina\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Salve Regina<\/p>\n<p>3\/14\/2026 | 1:00 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 14 (Sat) \/ 1:00 PM ET&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/salve_seahawk_head_3C.png\" alt=\"Salve Regina\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Salve Regina&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/opponent-history\/salve-regina\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    NEW LONDON, Conn. \u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United States Coast Guard Academy men&#8217;s lacrosse team was was defeated by Connecticut College, 6-10, on Tuesday in the two teams&#8217; annual match-up on the Mohegan Parkway. The Camels led by just one goal coming out of halftime before creating space with a 5-1 third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard drops to 1-3 after being held to less than ten goals in back-to-back games, while Conn College improves to 2-0. The Camels will open New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) play in their next one on Saturday, March 7th, against Middlebury College (0-1).<\/p>\n<p>Freshman attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/liam-miller\/10667\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10667\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Miller<\/a> (Radnor, Pa.) scored twice for a team-leading two points, while four other bears contributed a point each. <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/evan-granahan\/10642\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10642\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Granahan<\/a> (Aldie, Va.) rounded up five ground balls and was one of four bears with a caused turnover. <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/mason-tucker\/10663\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10663\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Tucker<\/a> (Alpharetta, Ga.) went 10-for-19 on face-offs. Junior goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/brett-tobasky\/10662\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10662\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Tobasky<\/a> (Brookline, Mass.) had 16 saves on the night.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Rainville led the game with four points on four goals, while Harrison Zmijewski tallied two points on two scores. Securing the game-high ground ball total was Liam Doherty with six, while Henry Dulmer and Liam Horkan caused two turnovers each. Camels net-minder Patrick Hogan made six saves on the night.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard seemed overpowered on both ends, mustering 24 shots while allowing 43 from their hosts; Conn outshot the Bears, 27-8, in just the second and third quarters combined. The Camels were also the better team on the clears, going 19-for-23 while the Bears were 17-for-27, and took better care of the ball with 16 turnovers on the night to USCGA&#8217;s 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Camels opened the scoring at 6:39, but Coast Guard responded with a pair of scores from <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/ezekiel-christian\/10635\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10635\" target=\"_blank\">Ezekiel Christian<\/a> (Stonington, Conn.) and <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/patrick-smith\/10661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10661\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Smith<\/a> (Leesburg, Va.) before the first quarter horn. Conn got both of them back while shutting out the Bears in the second quarter to take a 3-2 led into halftime, largely hindered from building a bigger lead thanks to 11 first half saves by Tobasky.<\/p>\n<p>Conn added opened the second half with two more goals to extend their scoring run to 4-0, but <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/ben-nocerito\/10656\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10656\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Nocerito<\/a> (Severna Park, Md.) stopped the bleeding with a score at 6:51. The Camels popped the stitches by adding three more to take an 8-3 lead into the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard flipped the script to start the fourth by scoring three unanswered in the first five minutes to cut the deficit down to 6-8 with 11:08 to play behind Miller&#8217;s two goals and another from <a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/roster\/max-silver\/10660\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10660\" target=\"_blank\">Max Silver<\/a> (Jupiter, Fla.). However, the Camels regained control and allowed just two shots from the Bears the rest of the way while scoring two themselves to put it on ice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coastguardathletics.com\/sports\/mens-lacrosse\/stats\/2026\/connecticut-college\/boxscore\/9376\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FULL BOX SCORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bears men&#8217;s lacrosse gets some time off until their next game on March 14th, which has them traveling to Salve Regina University (3-0) for both teams&#8217; New England Women&#8217;s and Men&#8217;s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) openers. The meeting will be the first for the two sides since last season&#8217;s NEWMAC quarterfinal, which the Seahawks claimed with a 10-8 result.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at Salve Regina 3\/14\/2026 | 1:00 PM ET &#13; Mar. 14 (Sat) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-502441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}