LATROBE, Pa. -- The Grove City College men's lacrosse team fired in six goals over the final 14 minutes Wednesday afternoon at Saint Vincent as the visiting Wolverines rallied for a 15-12 Presidents' Athletic Conference victory at UPMC Field. Grove City erased a 5-2 deficit in the first half, then rallied from down 11-10 in the fourth quarter for the road triumph.
Sophomore attack
Matt Blythe (Mendon, N.Y./Honeoye Falls-Lima) tied the game with an unassisted goal at the 9:42 mark of the fourth quarter. Grove City then took the lead for good 73 seconds later as freshman midfielder
Boden Davidson (Scottsdale, Ariz./Scottsdale Christian) scored a man-up goal. Senior midfielder
Brett Gladstone (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) assisted Davidson's tiebreaking goal.
Blythe pushed the lead to 13-11 with 5:57 remaining as he scored off an assist from junior midfielder
Luke Jayne (Vero Beach, Fla./Saint Andrew's). Freshman attack
Mac Faircloth (Greensboro, N.C./Page) sealed the win with a pair of unassisted goals in the final four minutes.Â
Blythe and Faircloth both paced Grove City with four goals each. Davison scored a season-high three goals while classmate
Kobi Bui (Harleysville, Pa./Souderton) scored twice. Gladstone and freshman attack
Rigdon Greene (Marietta, Ga./Pope) also scored.Â
Gladstone and Jayne both assisted two goals while Blythe and Bui each added an assist for Grove City, which led 7-5 at halftime.Â
Blythe and senior defender
Bailey Decker (Howard, Pa./Bellefonte) both caused two turnovers to help pace the Grove City defense. Senior long stick midfielder
Addison Bennett (Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield) recorded four ground balls and senior midfielder
David Kraus (Sewickley, Pa./Quaker Valley) collected three ground balls.Â
Saint Vincent finished the game with 15 turnovers while Grove City had nine. Grove City held a 41-37 edge in total shots.Â
Senior
Jack Petit (Pensacola, Fla./West Florida High School of Advanced Technology) earned the win in goal by stopping 12 shots.
Grove City (3-7, 2-0 PAC) will host Westminster at 3 p.m. Saturday in conference action at Robert E. Thorn Field.
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