Brandon Sankey at DeSales 2/17/18
Pat Jacoby
8
Elizabethtown ETOWN 3-3
21
Winner Franklin & Marshall FMC 6-1
Elizabethtown ETOWN
3-3
8
Final
21
Franklin & Marshall FMC
6-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Elizabethtown ETOWN 1 3 2 2 8
Franklin & Marshall FMC 7 2 7 5 21

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse |

Blue Jays fall to No. 12 Franklin & Marshall

LANCASTER, Pa. -- Elizabethtown edged Franklin & Marshall by a goal in the second quarter, but the 12th-ranked Diplomats were too strong in the first and third. F&M outscored the Blue Jays 14-3 between those two quarters to post a 21-8 victory in a rematch of last year's NCAA Division III Championships Second Round game.

Luke Keating registered a double hat trick, including three first-quarter goals, as the Diplomats jumped out to a 7-1 lead through 15 minutes.

Elizabethtown (3-3) got back within four early in the second on a Mike DiGenova tally at 12:37 and a beautiful individual effort from Alex Filbert, who darted in from the left untouched to make it 7-3 with 11:44 to go.

Griffin Liebsch scored in the final 10 seconds of the opening half with the help of Brandon Sankey's second assist of the day to cut F&M's (6-1) lead to 9-4 at halftime.

While DiGenova and Mike Scrafano each managed to strike for their 10th goals of the season in the third, the Diplomats increased their lead to 16-6 with three of Sean Rogers' four goals and another by Keating.

Kyle Scheuerle had a pair of fourth-quarter goals and five different F&M players scored to close out the victory. Scrafano collected a pair of unassisted markers in the final period for his second hat trick of the season.

Elizabethtown surrendered a season-high 51 shots (31 on goal) and were victimized by 24 turnovers. The Blue Jays have faced a pair of nationally-ranked teams (Christopher Newport and F&M) and another on the cusp (Lynchburg) in the last eight days of what is arguably the program's toughest non-conference schedule in its 17-year history.

Scrafano, DiGenova (two goals, assist) and Sankey (three assists) carried the load offensively for the Blue and Gray with three-point afternoons. Kyle Pienik won 13 face-offs on 28 tries and snagged a team-high four ground balls, while junior defenseman Jon Knapp had three caused turnovers and a pair of ground balls.

Keating (six goals, two assists) and Rogers (four goals, four assists) led seven multi-point scorers for the Dips with eight points apiece. Twelve F&M players managed their way onto the scoresheet in all.

Jack Myers stopped a game-high seven shots in the first half. Brandon Calle, Tom Mahoney and Christopher Tongel (E-town debut) split duties in the final two quarters. Calle stopped a shot in 24:06 of action and Mahoney had one save.

Elizabethtown ventures into Landmark Conference play next Saturday at Susquehanna.
 
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