Box Score The #6 Griffin men's lacrosse team took the trip to battle #8 NYIT on Saturday afternoon.  Neither team held more than a two goal advantage in the contest but NYIT was able to escape with a 12-11 victory.  Seton HIll falls to 1-1 on the season.

The team's exchanged goals in the first period and the score was tied at three after one period of play.  James Delaney scored two goals and Matt Delmonico added another in the Griffin first period.  NYIT scored the first two goals of the second period to take a 5-3 lead.  Kevin Cala cut the lead to 5-4 with a goal with 10:21 to play in the second.  NYIT added a goal to make it 6-4 before Dylan Lefebvre and Taylor Mansfield tied the score at six with two goals before the half. 

NYIT scored three of the first four goals of the third quarter to take a 9-7 lead with 9:04 to play in the third.  Cala and Mansfield answered with goals to tie the score at 9 with 7:17 left in the third.  NYIT took a 10-9 lead with just over a minute to play in the third.  NYIT scored less than 5 minutes into the fourth to take an 11-9 lead.  Dylan Gelven scored to cut the lead to 1 but NYIT answered 50 seconds later to push the lead back to two.  Delmonico scored the final goal of the game with 1:28 left.

James Delaney, Kevin Cala, Matt Delmonico, Taylor Mansfield and Dylan Gelven each scored two goals for the Griffins.  Chris Ilse made 13 saves in net in the loss.

SHU will travel to Mars Hill on March 2nd.