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Sports Men's lacrosse wins second straight game
By Chris Davis Sports editor The best way to describe the Mercyhurst College men's lacrosse season to date is like riding a roller coaster at an amusement park: The Lakers have gone on winning and losing streaks to start the opening portion of their schedule. After the Lakers started their season at 2-0, they dropped their next three to fall under .500 for the first time in over four years. Recently, Mercyhurst has improved its record back over the .500 mark at 4-3, including 2-1 in the East Coast Conference (ECC) after picking up a 9-8 victory over conference rival Molloy College on Saturday at Tulio Field. This was the Lakers' home opener, as it was their first home game of the season after their game against Limestone College was cancelled due to the weather. "Were a young team so every game is a building game," said junior captain Mike Bartlett, who tied with grad student Jordan Witt for the team lead with two goals. "The biggest part right now is coming together as a team because we can help push each other to get better." "After the half it gave us a good amount of time to adjust
and try and fix the little things that we can do to try to get that extra pass,
that extra goal trying to just build on that lead," The Lakers' offense gave junior goalie Jason LaShomb and their defense one its biggest cushions of the year, as junior Mike Thon found the back of the net with 10:06 left in the third quarter to give Mercyhurst a 8-2 lead. "I never try to give up any goals, but our offense is improving," said team captain LaShomb. "(The offense scoring goals) is going to help out our defense and take a little pressure off of them. Also our defense is playing real well right now. We just need a team effort on both sides of the field." "(LaShomb) coming up with big saves helps build momentum for us," Bartlett said. "We may throw the ball away or make a mistake and (the opposing team) brings it down and our defense has to step up and when Jay makes a big save it pushes us (the team) to go get the ball and do something on the offensive end." LaShomb made 11 saves overall for the Lakers during the game. He also led the team with seven ground balls. "I definitly think that we obviously could have played better," LaShomb said. "Obviously a win's a win and we need to just get better and grow from here. We also need to work on some things as we definitely need to get better." Mercyhurst would struggle throughout the final 18 minutes of the game, as the Lions scored six out of the final seven goals of the contest to make the final two minutes very nerve-wracking. "The defense is coming together real well," Lashomb said. "Obviously we need to make a few adjustments and we need to start playing a full complete game. Definitely with these better teams coming up with (C.W.) Post and (New York Institute of Technology) Tech and also with Seton Hill, who is a very good team this year." Head coach Chris Ryan emphasizes playing as a team for 60 minutes and the team is still looking for that. "We havent really found our 60 minutes yet so that's going be a goal that we will strive for and obvious we're going to push for that real hard," Lashomb said. "(Playing as a team) is going to be the biggest factor every day in practice," Bartlett said. "The question is if (the team) can push each other to get to the next level."
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