The Cabrini Men’s lacrosse team continued you their undefeated win streak to 6-0 with a 20-11 victory over the visiting Nazareth Golden Flyers. The No. 6 Cavaliers’ win tied their best start in the program’s history.
The Cavaliers didn’t control the game from the start as the Golden Flyers took an early 2-0 lead over the Cavs with over two minutes in the first half of play. The Cavs didn’t panic as they relied on the leadership from their upperclassman.
Junior Anthony DiNenno scored the first goal for the Cavaliers coming out of a timeout, marking his first goal of the year. Just 40 seconds later senior Corey Elmer assisted junior Tyler Johnston to notch the game up at 2-2.
Going into the second quarter the Cavs trailed the Golden Flyers 3-2 by giving up a goal in the final seconds before the end of the first.
But the Blue and White wasted no time as Sobeski netted his first goal of the game only one minute into the second quarter.
Junior Mike Leyden gave the Cavs the lead less than a minute later. Cabrini quickly took a 6-4 lead over the Golden Flyers after Johnston and Elmer scored back-to-back goals in just over a minutes’ span.
However the Golden Flyers didn’t go away as they tied the game at 6-6.
Sobieski’s goal gave the Cavaliers a short lived 6-7 lead as the Golden Flyers repeated their end of quarter heroics, scoring a goal with seconds left at the end of the quarter to tie the game at 7-7 just before halftime.
In the second half the Cavaliers tightened up their play and dominated the game. The Cavaliers caught fire as they tallied five unanswered goals. Two goals came from Sobieski, while junior Anthony DiSanzo, Elmer and DiNenno each tallied one more to their totals, extending the Cavs lead to 12-7.
Once again for the third time, the Golden Flyers continued to fight, scoring a goal in the final minute of the quarter cutting Cabrini’s lead to 12-8.
In the fourth the Cavs opened up strong as Leyden scored his 15th goal of the season. Sophomore Brian Kittredge got in on the action, assisting freshman Mike Crowley for a goal.
Nazareth continued to fight cutting the Cavaliers lead to 15-10. However it wasn’t enough as the Cavaliers went on their second 5-0 scoring run of the game. Eventually the Golden Flyers tallied one last goal.
Elmer tied a game-high seven points off of three goals and four assist. One of his goals went on to tally the 100th of his career.
Sobieski had a team-high five goals while Johnston tied Elmer with a team high seven points with a team high five assists.
Leyden and DiSanzo each had three goals. Freshman goalie Austin Marshall tallied his fist win with 10 saves in the second half.
The Cavaliers look to have their best start in program history as they prepare to take on Whittier College at Edith Rob Dixon Field at 3:00 p.m.
