STONY BROOK, N.Y. - Junior attackman Jordan McBride scored a game-high six goals, including five in the first half, and added an assist as 17th-ranked Stony Brook University (2-1) jumped out to a 9-4 half-time lead and held on for a 14-11 victory over the Tigers (0-2) at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
The Seawolves' leading scorer, McBride has now scored 14 goals with 3 assists this year.
The Seawolves took a quick 2-0 lead in the opening five minutes of the first quarter as McBride scored back-to-back goals in a 50-second span. However, the Tigers responded as senior midfielder Will Harrington and sophomore attackman Stephen Norris scored to tie the score at 2-2 with 7:45 remaining in the stanza.
After junior midfielder Kevin Crowley regained a one-goal lead for Stony Brook, Norris tallied his second goal of the period off a feed from sophomore defender John Kenyon to even the score at 3-3 with 5:17 remaining in the quarter.
But, Stony Brook opened the second quarter by scoring six straight goals, including three from McBride, to take a commanding 9-3 lead with 2:16 left in the first half. Harrington ended the Towson drought with 16 seconds left, scoring off a pass from junior attackman Tim Stratton to narrow the margin to 9-4.
After junior midfielder Timmy Trenkle scored to give the Seawolves a 10-4 lead, the Tigers narrowed the margin to 10-6 when senior midfielder Christian Pastirik and Harrington tallied back-to-back goals.
However, the Seawolves responded with a pair of goals from Crowley and senior midfielder Tom Compitello to regain a six-goal advantage with 9:28 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Led by two goals from Harrington, the Tigers answered by scoring four straight goals to cut the deficit to 12-10 with 4:57 left. But, the Seawolves secured the victory with goals from McBride and sophomore midfielder Robbie Campbell.
Norris scored the Tigers' final goal with 1:11 remaining for his third goal of the game.
While McBride led the Seawolves with six goals and an assist, Crowley contributed three goals and two assists. Compitello added a goal and an assist as the Seawolves outshot the Tigers by a 43-31 margin.
Harrington scored a career-high five goals to lead the Tigers in the loss while Pastirik added two goals with a career-high four assists.
The Tigers will travel to the University of Maryland next Saturday for an 11 a.m. game against the Terrapins. Meanwhile, Stony Brook travels to Delaware next Saturday.
College Men's Lacrosse: #17 Stony Brook University 14, Towson University 11
Towson (0-2) 3-1-2-5 / 11
Stony Brook (3-2) 3-6-2-3 / 14
Goals: TOW - Will Harrington 5, Stephen Norris 3, Christian Pastirik 2, Tim Stratton 1; SBU - Jordan McBride 6, Kevin Crowley 3, Tom Compitello 1, Timmy Trenkle 1, Kyle Belton 1, Steven Waldeck 1, Robbie Campbell 1. Assists: TOW - Christian Pastirik 4, Pat Britton 1, John Kenyon 1, Stephen Norris 1, Andrew Poulos 1, Tim Stratton 1; SBU - Kevin Crowley 2, Tom Compitello 1, Tim Hawkins 1, Vonzel LeGall 1, Jordan McBride 1, Chris Scott 1, Timmy Trenkle 1. Saves: TOW - Rob Wheeler 5 (30:00, 9 goals allowed), Travis Love 5 (29:16, 5 goals allowed), David Edens 0 (0:44, 0 goals allowed); SBU - Charlie Paar 8 (57:34, 8 goals allowed), Nick DiGiacomo 0 (2:26, 3 goals allowed). Shots: TOW - 31; SBU - 43. Extra-Man Opportunities: TOW - 5 for 7; SBU - 2 for 3. Attendance: 848.
Post-Game Notes:
- The Tigers and the Seawolves met for the first time in men's lacrosse on Saturday.
- Harrington recorded the fourth "hat trick" of his college career against the Seawolves ... He had three four-goal games last year for the Tigers.
- Harrington recorded the first five-goal game by a Towson player since Bill McCutcheon tallied five goals against Air Force last year.
- Norris tallied the first multi-goal game of his college career ... It was also his second career multi-point game as he tallied two points against Bucknell last week.
- Pastirik entered Saturday's game with just one assist in his career ... He is the first Tiger to record four assists since Jonathan Engelke had four assists against Delaware on April 5, 2008.
- Pastirik also recorded the first multi-point game of his career ... Entering Saturday's game against the Seawolves, he had tallied just seven career points (6 goals, 1 assist).
- All of McBride's points this season have been scored at home ... He had 8 goals with 2 assists in the Seawolves' 21-14 victory over Siena in the season opener.
- Love tallied a career-high five saves against the Seawolves on Saturday ... His previous career high was four saves against UMBC last year.
- Freshman Ryan DeSmit took the first face-offs of his brief career against the Seawolves on Saturday ... He won 3 of 9 face-offs.
- The Tigers scored five extra-man goals for the first time since May 12, 2007 when they had five goals in the NCAA Tournament against Cornell.
