FRANKLIN, Mass. – Alec Speirs and Diego Alvarez-Segee each recorded five points as the Dean College Bulldogs defeated the University of Southern Maine Huskies by a score of 12-1 in a non-conference men's lacrosse contest on Wednesday afternoon. Speirs had three goals and two assists while Alvarez-Segee scored four goals and had an assist. Manny Alvarez-Segee also contributed four points with two goals and two assists. Junior Rhys Bridges (Oakland, Maine/Messalonskee) scored for the Huskies in the fourth quarter with freshman Rodrigo Araujo (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Governor Livingston) assisting on the goal.
 
Elijah Beland earned the win and made five saves in the first three quarters before being replaced by Dane Duarte.
 
The Records:
Southern Maine: 2-7
Dean: 7-0
 
Series History:
The Bulldogs and Huskies have now played three times. Dean leads the series 3-0.
 
The Goaltenders:
Southern Maine: Brycen Wolfahrt (2-7), 30:00, eight goals allowed, six saves
Southern Maine: Addison Dietz, 30:00, four goals allowed, 15 saves
Dean: Elijah Beland (5-0), 45:00, no goals allowed, five saves
Dean: Dane Duarte, 15:00, one goal allowed, four saves
 
How It Happened:

• The Alvarez-Segee brothers had a hand in all four first quarter goals for the Bulldogs. Diego got the scoring started with a goal 37 seconds into the game and then Manny doubled the lead 1:16 later. The brothers teamed up for the third goal with Manny passing to Diego. The fourth Dean goal came from Speirs with Manny Alvarez-Segee providing the assist.
• Speirs scored twice in the second quarter and each Alvarez-Segee brother scored as well to put the Bulldogs ahead 8-0 at the half.
• Dean added two more goals in the third quarter to take a 10-0 lead. Speirs assisted on both scores, first on Kyle Pianka's goal and then on a goal by Diego Alvarez-Segee.
• A Connor McCarthy goal put Dean ahead 11-0 with 10:32 left in the quarter. The Huskies finally broke through on a goal by Bridges from Araujo with 5:14 to go. The final goal of the afternoon came with eight seconds left in the game when Pianka passed to Aj Woodward to make the score 12-1.

 
Inside The Stats:

• Dean had a 33-10 lead in shots on goal.
• All goals were scored at even-strength as both teams went 0-for-5 with the extra man.
• The teams each won eight faceoffs with sophomore Nick Shevchenko (Gray, Maine/Gray-New Gloucester) recording all eight wins for the Huskies. Josh Hackett won five for Dean while Gavin McCarthy went 2-for-2 and Collin Murphy was 1-for-1.
• The Huskies led 38-36 in ground balls. Sophomore Owen Gaulrapp (Windham, Maine) led all players with five followed by Shevchenko, Dietz and sophomore Lucas Rego (Dracut, Mass./Lowell Catholic) each recording four.
• Dean had 16 caused turnovers with Ryan Clunie recording six.

 
Up Next:
The next game for Southern Maine will be on Sunday at noon against Western Connecticut State University at home.