Massachusetts Men's Lacrosse Travels To UMass Lowell For Friday Tilt

Game 2	Massachusetts (1-0, 0-0 A-10) vs. UMass Lowell River Hawks (0-1, 0-0 PL)
Date \| Time	Friday, February 17, 2023 \| 1 PM
Location	Cushing Field \| Lowell, Mass.
Live Statistics	Sidearm
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Series History	Massachusetts leads 5-0 Last: Massachusetts 19, UMass Lowell 9 Garber Field \| Amherst, Mass. \| February 19, 2022
Twitter	@UMassAthletics \| @UMassMLacrosse
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Against UMass Lowell

- Massachusetts is 5-0 all-time against UMass Lowell since the series began in 2017. The teams have met in five of the past six seasons, with the exception of 2021.
- Last season at Garber Field, UMass downed the River Hawks, 19-9 as 13 different Gorillas logged points including a hat trick from Mike Tobin. It marked the largest margin of victory for Massachusetts since the Gorillas defeated Utah 16-2 on March 17, 2019.

A Knote-Worthy Performance

- Senior goalkeeper Matt Knote collected a host of accolades after last Saturday's win over Army.
- Knote was named USA Lacrosse Magazine Division I Player of the Week, to the USILA Division I Team of the Week and earned the first-ever Atlantic 10 Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week.
- The Speonk, New York, native made 19 saves and picked up the win in a 10-8 victory over Army at Garber Field last Saturday, also collecting four ground balls. He made 11 stops in the first half and allowed just one goal. The win marked the first for UMass vs. Army since 2014, ending a streak of seven straight wins by the Black Knights.

To Quickly Recap

- Massachusetts rode a 4-1 first half to a 10-8 season-opening win over Army at Garber Field on February 11.
- With the scored tied at eight and the potential of overtime looming, graduate student Tim Hoynes broke the deadlock at the 3:28 mark in the fourth quarter and senior Mike Tobin capped the scoring with a diving highlight reel goal at 2:25.
- Seven Gorillas combined for the squad's 10 tallies. Senior Matt Knote had 19 saves between the pipes and junior Ryan Henry was a career-best 7-for-10 over X.
- Senior Carter Carter Castillo posted his first career hat trick with three goals on three shots. He had two career goals over his prior three seasons. Redshirt sophomore Shane O'Leary scored twice for his fourth career multi-goal game. Dillon Arrant had a goal and an assist for his eighth career multi-point game. Gabriel Procyk dished two assists for his third career multi-assist game. Freshman Zach Auble picked up an assist for his first collegiate point.

Challenging Road Ahead

- UMass' 2023 schedule features six matchups against 2022 NCAA Tournament teams and three more against squads that reached the conference championship games in their respective leagues.
- The Gorillas have six games on the slate against teams ranked in the preseason Top-20 USILA and Inside Lacrosse polls: #14 Boston University, #8/7 Yale, #10/9 Rutgers, #16 Brown, #13/15 Saint Joseph's and #19/20 Richmond.

Back For More

- The Gorillas have four players on this year's roster entering their fifth seasons with the Maroon & White: midfielder Jack Gump, attack Gabriel Procyk, midfielder Tim Hoynes and attack Jackson Cummings.
- Procyk was second on the team in goals (26) and third in points (33). He is the leading active career points scorer with 119 points over 47 career games.

Out Of The Portal

- UMass has added five transfers to the squad ahead of the 2023 campaign: defenseman Giuseppe Chiovera from NJIT, defenseman Chris Campbell from Hartford and LIU, midfielder Will Abbott from Quinnipiac, attack Conor Foley from UMass Lowell and defenseman Ryan Sharkey from Canisius.
- Abbott and Sharkey are graduate transfers, Campbell and Foley are seniors and Chiovera is a sophomore.
- Sharkey was a two-time All-MAAC selection at Canisius (second team 2021, first team 2022).

Hammett & O'Leary Look To Build Off Breakout 2022 Campaigns

- Redshirt sophomores Caleb Hammett and Shane O'Leary enter 2023 looking to build off stellar seasons as redshirt freshmen in 2022.
- Hammett was an All-CAA First Team and All-CAA Rookie Team selection in 2022. He appeared in all 14 games and went 185-for-301 (.615) over X, leading the CAA in faceoff percentage and ranking fifth in the nation. The Hanover, Massachusetts native also paced the league in ground balls per-game (8.50) and ranked sixth nationally. He finished the 2023 campaign with 119 ground balls on the year.
- O'Leary was named to the All-Rookie Team after registering 16 points over 13 games on 14 goals and 2 assists during the regular season with 24 ground balls and four caused turnovers. The Byfield, Massachusetts, native opened the season with a hat trick at Army, tallying the first three goals of his career. He also put up three points (2g, 1a) at Yale and scored a pair of goals in a 12-9 win over UAlbany as both games were part of a six-game goal scoring streak for the midfielder. He finished the 2022 campaign ranked sixth on the squad with 17 points on 14 goals and three assists.

Welcome To The Troop

- Massachusetts has 10 first-year players on its roster this season: midfielder Zach Auble (Burlington, Mass.), face off specialist TJ Casey (Medfield, Mass.), attack Aiden Drunsic (Exeter, N.H.), defender Russ Hutchinson (Marblehead, Mass.), midfielder Brian Jackman (Oakville, Ontario), defenseman Zander Johnson (Downers Grove, Ill.), midfielder Liam Maher (Melrose, Mass.), goalkeeper Ryan Mazzariello (Watervliet, N.Y.), defenseman Kyle Swanson (Evanston, Ill.) and defenseman Rob Travers (Wycoff, N.J.).

Leading The Way

- Graduate student defenseman Jack Gump, senior goalkeeper Matt Knote and senior midfielder Mike Tobin have been named team captains for the 2023 season.
- Tobin logged 28 points on 13 goals and 15 assists in 2022 as a junior, finishing fourth on the team in scoring and earning a NEILA All-New England Second Team nod.

Preseason Accolades

- Senior defenseman Chris Campbell and senior goalkeeper Matt Knote were named to the inaugural Atlantic 10 Preseason All-Conference Team.
- The Gorillas were picked third in the preseason poll with 20 points, while Richmond was selected as the preseason favorite (33 points) with Saint Joseph's in second (29). Behind UMass, High Point (19), Hobart (18) and St. Bonaventure (7) round out the poll in fourth, fifth and sixth.
- Campbell comes UMass from LIU where he was an All-NEC first team and NEC All-Tournament Team honoree in 2022 after starting 14 games, collecting 31 ground ball and forcing 19 turnovers. The Shrewsbury, Massachusetts native previously spent two seasons at Hartford where he earned an America East All-Rookie Team nod in 2019. He started all 21 games for the Hawks over the 2019 and 2020 campaigns.
- Knote started all 14 games of his junior season in 2022, logging an 8-6-0 record with an 11.07 goals against average and a .527 save percentage, making 173 stops between the pipes to garner his second consecutive First Team All-CAA nod. The Speonk, New York native finished the 2022 regular season as the CAA leader in GAA and save percentage, while ranking second in saves per-game.
- Knote currently ranks 13^th all-time in the UMass record book in career saves (398) and holds a career save percentage of .536 and a goals-against average of 10.80 over 1912 minutes in net.

Looking Ahead

- Coming off Friday's game at UMass Lowell, the Gorillas will close out the opening month of the season vs. Boston University on Saturday, Feb. 25 at Garber Field at 3:15 p.m.
- Massachusetts will then host #6/5 Yale at Garber Field on Saturday, March 4 at Noon.

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