Brian Izzo | The Informer
While drinks went down into students’ stomachs this weekend for Spring Fling, the men’s lacrosse team went down to Stony Brook with an overtime loss.
By a 10-9 score in the final home game on Al-Marzook field it only took six seconds for the Sea Wolves to score in the sudden death period and create a three-way tie for second place with Hartford, Stony Brook and UMBC.
“The kid made a great play,” Peter Lawerence, Hartford (7-5, 2-2) head coach said in a Hawks All-Access video on Stony Brook defender J.J. Laforet face-off win that lead to the game winner. “I wish we had just slid to him.”
“We told our guys coming into knowing that he’d do that and when he goes into transition he wants to shoot himself and thats exactly what he did.”
Just before overtime, it was Kevin O’Shea who scored for the Hawks, his third of the game and the fourth time he has scored three times in one game, to tie the game with 2:08 left to play.
Thinking his Hawks easily hit the goal cage at least five times in those final minutes to net a goal and prevent overtime, Lawrence said, “We had so many chances there in the end, we were getting the looks we wanting to, [we] just couldn’t get the ball into the back of the net.”
Throughout the whole game both America East teams went back in forth as stnoy Brook scored the first two goals, followed by a Hartford goal, followed by another Stony Brook goal and then another HArtford goal to close out the first.
In the second, Stony Brook scored first followed by two Hartford goals, but it was Stony Brook who next scored to start the third quarter.
Hartford would go on to score three straight, followed by a Stony Brook goal and then another Hartford one before entering the fourth, where Stony Brook scored their own three straight goals, before Hartford scored the final.
O’Shea led Hartford on offense, with three goals on eight shots, while Andrew Cacchio scored three goals as well, on three shots.
In goal for the Hawks, Frank Piechota made 10 saves on 33 shots, while allowing the 10 goals.
Jeff Tundo led Stony Brook on offense with three goals on seven shots, while Dan Shaughnessy made 10 saves on 28 shots by Hartford and allowing nine goals in the cage for the Sea Wolves.
Up next for the Hawks, in their final game of the season, is Vermont in Burlington, VT on Saturday, April 27, before the America East tournament begins on May 2.