Blog Post #3
- mbarrett603
- Apr 15, 2024
- 3 min read
The Bobcats win one, drop one to move to 9-3 on the season
The 11th game of the season saw the Bobcats make the trip up to Rochester to face Roberts Wesleyan on Saturday April 6. The Redhawks were into the game following a big win against D’Youville. And Roberts Wesleyan duly started the game hot scoring the first three goals of the game. The Bobcats did come back towards the end of the first quarter making the score 4-4 at the end of the first with help from Bubba Love, Owen McCallum, and Austin Sipes. The second quarter was a close battle with the Bobcats going into the half with a 10-8 lead thanks to McCallum and Chase Buckwalter. In the third quarter, the Bobcats seemed to find their feet and went on a 5-3 run to make the score 14-9. In the fourth quarter, the Bobcats ran away with the game with the ending score being 20-13.
Offensively, the Bobcats had a lot of help from Buckwalter and Love having four goals each. Also, McCallum and Sipes finished with three goals each. Defensively, Nate Jones made six saves in goal and Nick Agresta tallied a caused turnover. With the win, the Bobcats moves to 9-2 with a undefeated record in the ECC of 3-0.
Game No. 12 on the season was against conference rival and 5th-ranked Mercy on Saturday April 13. Mercy was coming off a conference win against Molloy. To start the game Mercy went up by one in the first quarter. Gregg Dort Jr. then responded with a goal off of a face-off. Mercy then extended the score to a 4-1 lead over the Bobcats. To end the quarter, the Bobcats kept it close with help from Buckwalter and McCallum to make it a 4-3 game with Mercy leading. To start the second, Mercy went on a 7-0 run to make the game 11-4. After that, graduate Love was able to get his first goal of the game to make the score 12-5 going into the half. To start the third quarter Love had himself two goals to earn a hattrick to make it a 12-7 game. Then Sipes found Love to cut down the lead again to 12-8. Mercy then scored again to make it a five-goal game at 13-8. Before the third quarter ended Mercy was able to get one more goal in making a 14-8 game. At the beginning of the fourth quarter both teams started slow offensively. After a timeout, freshman Henry Sykes scored his first goal of the game making it 14-10 to put the Bobcats back within four. After Sykes' goal, Mercy was awarded a penalty and went on the man up. They used the opportunity and put another goal on the board to give them a lead of five, 15-10. McCallum then scored another goal to cut the lead back to four. Late in the fourth quarter both teams traded goals with Love earning his sixth goal of the game. The time left was not enough for the Bobcats to complete their comeback. Mercy won the game 16-12.
Love led the offense in scoring with six goals. With his fourth goal of the game, Love also became the new record holder for most career points. He broke the record with 223 career points passing Devin Colegrove. The other top scorer was McCallum with three goals. The remainder of the goal scorers were Buckwalter, Dort Jr, and Sykes all finishing with one goal. Defensively, Agresta had six groundballs and Luke McCullough had four. In goal, Jones made seven saves for the Bobcats.
With the loss, the Bobcats sit at 9-3 on the season going into Wednesday's key match up with Seton Hill.
Introducing freshman midfielder JT Calhoun
This week we will be featuring freshman JT Calhoun. JT is a first-year student-athlete from Hampstead, Maryland who played at Manchester Valley. JT has appeared in multiple games this season. He has also tallied his first career college goal in a game against Davis & Elkins. We asked JT a couple of questions about his first season of lacrosse and how it was going for him. The first question we asked him was about the transition from high school to college. He said, “The team made it easy and fun." We also asked him about the team environment this season. He responded by saying, “It’s a really close team. It’s like a family.”
