GREENSBURG, PA. - Max Eismann grabbed a career-high 20 saves, and the rest of the defense employed a bend-but-don't-break style as the USILA #12 Seton Hill University men's lacrosse team outlasted #11 Mercyhurst, 13-11, in a clash of the top two teams in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference on Saturday afternoon at Dick's Sporting Goods Field.
// NOTABLES
• Seton Hill improves to 7-3, 2-0 in the G-MAC, while Mercyhurst slips to 7-3 and 3-1 in the conference.
• Mercyhurst outshot Seton HIll, 57-36 (31-23 on-goal).
• SHU won 17-of-28 Face Offs.
• Both teams were 1-for-5 in man-up opportunities.
// SHU LEADERS
• Bennett Johnson scored a game-high 4 goals, while John Miller and Zack Estabrooks came away with 2 goals apiece. Jay Scerbo, Logan Maloni, Robert Hofseth, Collin Mitchell, and Ryan Manbeck all chipped in a goal in the win..
• Max Eismann finished with a career-high 20 saves in all 60:00 spent in the net.
// HOW IT HAPPENED
• Jay Scerbo set the tone of the game by winning the opening Face Off and racing down to find Bennett Johnson for the opening goal of the game just seven seconds into play. After a Mercyhurst goal tied the game at 1-1, SHU would score the next five. Logan Maloni's goal at 11:29 in the first started off the run followed by two-in-a-row from Bennett Johnson to give SHU a 4-1 lead heading into the second quarter. SHU picked up where they left off when Johnson scored again at 13:13 to make it 5-1, and Robert Hofseth's goal at 9:30 capped the run to push the lead out to 6-1. The Lakers would respond with a run of their own, scoring four out of the next five goals of the game to cut the SHU advantage to just two, 7-5, with 9:51 remaining in the 3rd. However, goals from Zack Estabrooks (2), Collin Mitchell, Scerbo, and Ryan Manbeck gave Seton Hill their largest lead of the game, 12-6, with 7:30 showing on the 4th quarter clock. Merychurst would go on to outscore Seton Hill, 5-1, but the damage had already been done as the Griffins held on for the 13-11 win.
// UP NEXT
• Seton Hill starts a two-game road trip when they travel to Wheeling, WV to take on Wheeling Jesuit on Tuesday, April 10th. That game is scheduled to start at 7:00 PM.
// FOLLOW US
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