Men's Lacrosse Downed By Harvard's Early Offense

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Massachusetts	0	1	2	4	7
Harvard	4	1	1	5	11

Massachusetts

Harvard

GAME INFORMATION
Harvard 11, Massachusetts 7
Records: Massachusetts (0-3) • [RV/RV] Harvard (3-0)
Location: Jordan Field; Cambridge, Mass.

HIGHLIGHTS

Buddy Carr led the Minutemen with three points on a goal and two assists. It was his seventh career game with three or more points and first of the 2017 season.

Tyler Bogart earned his second consecutive multi-goal game with two scored at Harvard. Bogart netted back-to-back goals in the third quarter.

Dan Muller bumped his consecutive games with one point streak to 10 contests via the first UMass goal of the day. It was his second tally of the year.

Tom Meyers won 14-of-21 faceoffs. It marked his most faceoff victories on the season and the second-most for his career (16 at No. 20 Penn State; March 19, 2016).

D.J. Smith made 10 saves in his third start of the season, including four in the first quarter, two in the second, three during the third and one in the fourth. It was his third consecutive game with 10 or more saves.

Dom St. Laurent scored his first goal since the 2015 season during the fourth quarter at Harvard. St. Laurent missed the entirety of the 2016 campaign due to injury and returned to the lineup as a redshirt sophomore for 2017.

Dylan Gruder had a career-high three caused turnovers from his spot at short-stick defensive midfield. He added three groundballs

Luc Valenza led the close defense with five groundballs and two caused turnovers. Through three games of the year, Valenza has 10 groundballs and four caused turnovers, more than the junior collected during his first two seasons of college lacrosse.

FIRST QUARTER
Harvard scored the opening four goals of the contest, including a pair from Morgan Cheek. After Cheek assisted Nigel Andrews in widening the lead to 3-0 with seven minutes, 49 seconds to go, UMass head coach Greg Cannella called timeout to regroup.

Massachusetts responded and matched Harvard shot-for-shot through the quarter, but Crimson goalkeeper Robert Shaw kept the Minutemen scoreless with seven first quarter saves.

SECOND QUARTER
Dan Muller put the Minutemen on the scoreboard in the second quarter with his conversion only 59 seconds into the frame. Muller weaved toward the Crimson goal and beat Shaw with a low shot before Shaw could react to Muller's attempt.

Harvard answered back and bumped its lead back to four goals via the only other score during the frame. Cheek helped Joe Lang put one in with 7:36 to play in the second.

THIRD QUARTER
Massachusetts cut back within three of tying after Tyler Bogart put in back-to-back shots at the 8:37 and 6:13 marks. Bogart scored in transition to make it 6-2 on a feed from Buddy Carr after Carr picked up a loose ball in the midfield and slotted a cross-field pass to Bogart. Bogart ran in uncontested and beat Shaw low for the goal.

Bogart made it consecutive tallies two minutes, 24 seconds later after Grant Consoletti sent a pass from behind the Crimson goal to Bogart in front of the cage. Bogart caught and fired in-motion from 10 yards for his second goal of the day.

FOURTH QUARTER
Massachusetts continued to chip away at the deficit and make use of quick strikes in transition or immediately following faceoffs as the Minutemen climbed back within one of tying, 7-6.

Jake Marino notched his second career goal – his first of the season – after a Tom Meyers faceoff victory. Luc Valenza collected the groundball, raced up the right side and sent a pass to Marino eight yards out from the left post. Marino stepped into a cross-cage blast and made it 6-4 Harvard only 14 seconds into the stanza.

After a Dalton Follows man-up score for the Crimson, Carr and Dom St. Laurent posted another two-goal series for Massachusetts. Carr scored only 10 seconds after a Meyers faceoff victory at the 11:26 mark of the fourth. St. Laurent followed 70 seconds later with his first of the year.

Cheek responded for Harvard and pushed the home side's lead back to a pair with 5:34 to play only for Consoletti to answer 28 seconds later. Carr saw Consoletti open during a man-up chance and Consoletti buried the attempt for his first goal of the year.

Back within one, the Minutemen pushed for the tying goal, but the Crimson notched three straight scores to put the game out of reach. Ryan Graff, Lang and Cheek accounted for the tallies.

UP NEXT
Massachusetts continues the four-game road swing with a Wed., March 1 contest at No. 12 Albany (1-1). Faceoff is set for 3 p.m.

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Team Stats

Bogart Tyler

Consoletti Grant

Muller Dan

Marino Jake

Players Mentioned

Tyler Bogart

Buddy Carr

Grant Consoletti

Dylan Gruder

Jake Marino

Tom Meyers

Dan Muller

D.J. Smith

Dom St. Laurent

Luc Valenza