Box Score MADISON, N.J. – Graduate student
Joost van der Horst posted four goals and three assists and the Drew University men's lacrosse team defeated Juniata College 14-3 in a Landmark Conference affair on Senior Day in Ranger Stadium Saturday afternoon.
Senior
Riley Zeer added three goals and two assists while classmate
Joey Larmore also scored three goals for the Rangers (7-7, 4-4 LC), who were playing their final home game of the season.
Sophomore
Nick Carabetta handed out four assists for Drew while freshman
Kullen Mcdermott added two goals. Between the pipes, senior
Sawyer Kennedy made 10 saves over the opening 51 minutes.
Drew posted a 63-26 shot advantage, but Griffin Umstead made 22 saves for the Eagles (1-14, 0-8 LC).
Van der Horst scored the game's first goal with 9:27 on the clock before Juniata tied it with 7:45 showing. Zeer followed with a tally at the 2:32 mark to put the Rangers in front to stay, and it was a 2-1 game at the end of the opening quarter, when Drew piled up an 18-4 shot advantage.
Larmore struck a minute and a half into the second quarter before the Eagles answered with 7:56 left in the first half. But that's' when Drew embarked on a 6-0 run spanning the second and third quarters. Mcdermott and Larmore each tallied inside the final seven minutes of the opening half to give the Rangers a 5-2 lead at the intermission before Zeer opened the third quarter with back-to-back goals. Van der Horst and Mcdermott followed with consecutive man-up tallies to push Drew's advantage to 9-2 with 5:30 remaining in the third quarter before Juniata stopped the bleeding with the final tally of the period at the 4:06 mark.
The Rangers settled any doubt in the final quarter, when they tossed in five unanswered goals. Van der Horst opened the period with his final two strikes before sophomore
Vincent Rubio, junior
Kody Lubischer, and Larmore all connected to set the final score.
Drew closes out the regular season on Wednesday, when it visits the University of Scranton in a Landmark Conference affair starting at 5 p.m.