*Photo from a previous season*
MILTON, Mass. – The Curry College men's lacrosse team dropped a 16-6 decision to Endicott College on Wednesday afternoon at Walter M. Katz Field.
Endicott freshman Nick Pagluiso (Shelton, Conn.) led all scorers with two goals and four assists in the game. Sophomore Domenic Russo (Northborough, Mass.) followed with three goals and an assist. Sophomore Nate Cuttitta (Williston, Vt.) and junior Craig Claflin (Natick, Mass.) each added a pair while seven other Gulls finished with one goal each.
The Colonels were led by freshman freshman Jack Dacey (Guilford, Conn.) who scored two goals on the afternoon. Senior Samuel Nielsen (Fairfield, Conn.), graduate student Jake Stebbins (Colchester, Vt.) and freshman Albie DiBella (Norwell, Mass.) each had one goal and one helper each. Junior Dane Hanson (East Providence, R.I.) rounded out the scoring for the home squad.
The first quarter was split pretty evenly with scoring. DiBella got the Colonels going with an unassisted tally at the 9:00 minute mark to give Curry the 1-0 lead. Endicott followed that with two straight, one from junior Kevin Flowers (Andover, Mass.) and the other from Claflin to give his team the 2-1 lead after 15 minutes.
The squads traded goals in the second quarter. Russo found the back of the net with 3:26 remaining while Dacey tallied his first of the day with a little over a minute to play in the stanza. The Gulls would enter the half with a 3-2 advantage.
Endicott would go on to outscore Curry 8-1 in the third quarter, including a run of seven straight, to build an eight-goal margin, 11-3.
The Gulls tacked on two more at the start of the fourth to extend its lead to 10, 13-3. Hanson put an end to the run with a man-up goal with 8:23 to go in regulation off a feed from Stebbins. Endicott answered back with three straight followed by two from the Colonels, one from Stebbins and the other from Dacey, for the 16-6 final.
Endicott goalie Austin Fournier (Martha's Vineyard, Mass.) finished with seven saves in the victory. Freshman Evan Falandys (Leominster, Mass.) faced 23 shots and made eight saves in the loss.
Curry (2-3 overall) remains home and will host the University of New England on Saturday, April 10 at 1:00 p.m. Endicott (4-1 overall) heads to Western New England University on Saturday for a 1:00 p.m. start.
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