Box Score Southern Maine Rolls Past UMaine Farmington 25-2
GORHAM, Maine -- The University of Southern Maine men's lacrosse team scored a single-game record 25 goals, including 13 consecutive to open the game, to defeat the University of Maine at Farmington 25-2 in a non-conference match Wednesday afternoon at Hannaford Field.
The win was the third straight for the Huskies to open the season. The 3-0 start is the best in the 16-year history of the program. The Beavers fell to 0-2.
Sophomore attack Nate DelGiudice (Oakland, Maine/Messalonskee) led the Huskies' offense with 10 points on five goals and five assists. DelGiudice's 10 points were two shy of the school single-game record. USM's 25 goals broke the previous single-game mark of 21 set in 2003 against Emerson College and equaled in 2009 against Saint Joseph's College (Me.).
Senior Austin Watts (Westbrook, Maine) had four goals, junior Keegan Smith (West Gardiner, Maine/Gardiner Area) contributed three goals and one assist, senior Jeff Urmston (Bellingham, Mass.) had two goals and two assists, and sophomore Drew Shane (Casco, Maine/Lake Region) had a hat trick. In all, 11 different Huskies scored a goal.
USM employed all three goalies in the cage as well as in the field. Sophomore John Bossi (Billerica, Mass.) earned his second win of the season playing the opening half and making four saves. Classmate Zach Bessette (Readfield, Maine/Maranacook) played 25:44 recording four saves while rookie Chris Camire (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) got 4:16 of playing time without making a save.
Freshman Justin Roberge (Sanford, Maine) and senior Travis St. Pierre (Sebago, Maine/Mountain Valley) scored the UMF goals. Rookie goalie Caleb Carr (Augusta, Maine/Cony) had 10 saves.
The Huskies came out firing on all cylinders taking a 10-0 lead in the first quarter. Smith scored all three of his goals in the opening 15 minutes. DelGiudice and junior Seth Wing (West Gardiner, Maine/Gardiner Area) each had a pair of markers.
In the second quarter, USM pushed the lead to 13-0 before Roberge put the Beavers on the board at 10:06 after taking a pass from rookie Skylar McMillan (Gardiner, Maine).
The goals kept coming for USM in the third quarter as five different players found the net. Shane was the lone repeat scorer in the period.
St. Pierre netted the Beavers second goal 19 seconds into the fourth quarter converting a feed from senior Cameron McAllister (Yarmouth, Maine). DelGiudice, Watts and junior Sam Fortin (Brunswick, Maine) added goals for the Huskies.
The Huskies dominated the stat sheet out shooting the Beavers 49-16 for the game and winning the battle for ground balls 44-25. USM rookie faceoff man Josh Murphy (Readfield, Maine/Maranacook) won 14 of 25 faceoffs and scooped up a game-high 11 ground balls.
Southern Maine is back in action at Hannaford Field on Saturday (3:00 p.m.) hosting Lasell College. UMaine Farmington travels on Sunday (1:00 p.m.) to play Wheelock College at Dexter Southfield in Brookline, Mass.
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