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Team picture vs Tusculum MLAX
Paul Evans
15
Mars Hill MHUM 4-10
18
Winner Newberry NBY 9-6
Mars Hill MHUM
4-10
15
Final
18
Newberry NBY
9-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Mars Hill MHUM 2 3 4 6 15
Newberry NBY 5 4 6 3 18

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | | Justin Mordecai, Athletic Communications Assistant

Men's Lacrosse Gets the Dominating Win over Mars Hill on Senior Day

Westmoreland gets his 10th Hat Trick of the Season

Newberry, S.C. - On a day where we honor seniors, the Newberry College men's lacrosse team got their second-straight win in conference play as they took down Mars Hill, 18-15, on Saturday (Apr. 16) at Setzler Field. Newberry improves to 9-6 (5-4 SAC) with the win and Mars Hill (MHU) falls to 4-10 (0-9 SAC).

Newberry opened Saturday's contest with an all-senior starting lineup therefore, it is only fitting that senior Brice Kirsch (Boiling Springs, S.C.) got the Wolves on the board first less than a minute into the first quarter. Sophomore Baker Westmoreland (Charlotte, N.C.) found the back of the net less than a minute later to put Newberry up, 2-0, early on. Mars Hill responded with a score but Westmoreland had other plans as he netted his second goal of the day to go up, 3-1, midway through the first. Sophomore duo Miles Jones (Jupiter, Fla.) and Mac Ryan (Lake Villa, Ill) both closed the first quarter with goals to head into the second with the momentum and a 5-2 lead.

MHU cut the deficit down to two to begin the second quarter but sophomore Zach Thompson (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) fired back with a goal to keep Newberry out in front by three, 6-3. Senior captain Zachary Sunderland (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) tacked on another goal for the Wolves as the scoring surge continued. MHU added two more goals which were quickly answered by Thompson and Westmoreland's second goals of the day to give Newberry a 9-5 advantage headed into the halftime break. 

Juniors Curtis Bukta (Ontario, Canada) and Scott Reed (Ontario, Canada) started the second half on a mission as they both netted goals to extend Newberry's lead to, 11-5. The Wolves continued to pile on the goals in the third as they outscored MHU, 6-4, in the quarter to enter the final period with a 15-9 lead. 

Sophomore Owen Harrison (Apex, N.C.) and freshman Sawyer Morais (Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada) tacked on two more scores to begin the fourth followed by senior Connor Bates (Boiling Springs, S.C.) scoring a goal off of a won faceoff to give Newberry their biggest lead of the day at, 18-9, just a minute into the fourth quarter. MHU went on to score six unanswered goals but Newberry's lead was too much as the Wolves took down the Lions, 18-15, on Senior Day.

Bukta led the Wolves in points today with a six-point performance on two goals and game-high four assists. Eleven different Wolves scored goals in the win and they won the ground ball battle, 31-26. 

Newberry College Men's lacrosse will finish their season on the road as they head to Harrogate, Tenn. next Saturday (Apr. 23) to take on the Lincoln Memorial Railsplitters. Faceoff is set for 4 p.m.
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