SCRANTON, Pa. – Senior Thomas Palen scored a career-high five goals, but Scranton overcame a late two-goal deficit to top Elizabethtown, 10-9, in Landmark Conference action Saturday afternoon.

With the loss, the Blue Jays fall to 1-1 on the year and in league play, while the Royals improve to 3-1 overall and in the Landmark.

Palen's five goals ties him for eighth all-time in program history in single-game goals. Senior Mike Scrafano, juniors Alex Kilgour and Owen Yake, and sophomore Grady Meredith each finished with a goal and an assist. Junior Nick Cost tallied a team-high three assists.

Scranton was led by juniors Cole Lukasiewicz and Sean Crotty who each finished the afternoon with three points (two goals, one assist).

Etown netted the first goal in the game just over a minute into the game, as Cost found Palen for the early tally.

The Royals responded with four consecutive goals in the opening period before Kilgour scored his first in an Etown uniform, making the score 4-2 after one.

The Blue Jays cut the deficit to one at the start of the second quarter when junior Parker Tribble found Yake for his lone tally of the game with 13:29 remaining in the first half.

Scranton, however, went on a second run, scoring the next three goals to hold a 7-3 lead with just under 12 minutes to go in the third period.

Etown rallied with six unanswered goals, capped off by a Scrafano strike from Kilgour, making the score 9-7 with 10:01 left on the clock.

The home team would have the final say, depositing the final three goals of the game and holding the Blue Jays scoreless over the final 10 minutes for the 10-9 win.

Graduate student Tom Mahoney (1-1) registered his third career game with 20+ saves, stopping 22 shots. This is the second most career saves for the fifth year with his top mark, 27, coming against York during his sophomore year.

Senior Shayne Fallon (3-1) made 10 saves in goal for the Royals.

Etown remains on the road this Wednesday, April 14 for their first of back-to-back games against Moravian, Opening face-off is set for 4 p.m. For updated spectator policies from the other Landmark schools, please visits the conference's spectator policy landing page.