Men's Lacrosse 4/2/2021 12:00:00 AM

Men's Lacrosse Hosts No. 16 Vermont on Saturday

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The UMBC men's lacrosse program quickly developed healthy America East rivalries with New York foes UAlbany, Binghamton and Stony Brook and another developed with Hartford in the middle part of the last decade.

It has taken longer to come to fruition, but the Retrievers and Vermont Catamounts have now reached that outstanding state of competitiveness.

UMBC (4-1, 3-1 America East) takes on first-place and 16th-ranked Vermont (4-2, 4-0) at UMBC Stadium at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 3 after a pair of jaw-dropping contests in 2019. Each team captured a game in dramatic fashion and the Retrievers were set to open defense of the 2019 title in Burlington a year ago when the pandemic halted the 2020 campaign.

Gary Stein has the call of the game on the America East Digital Network.

Keep up to date with the men's lacrosse team at umbcretrievers.com and on the team's social media accounts on Twitter (@UMBC_MLax) and Instagram (@umbc_mlax).

Last Time Out

The Retrievers avenged Wednesday's 8-7 overtime loss to Binghamton and triumphed, 7-6, on an unseasonably warm early spring Saturday afternoon at UMBC Stadium.

UMBC faced a 6-5 fourth quarter deficit, but midfielders Dane Hall and Brandon Galloway provided the game-tying and game-winning goals.

Galloway and Hall each scored twice for UMBC, while leading scorer Nick Dupuis led the way with a goal and two assists. Senior attackman Ryan Frawley returned from a two-game absence and added a pair of helpers for the Retrievers.

Leaders (5 games)

Goals: 13, Nick Dupuis

Assists: 7, Nick Dupuis

Total Points: 20, Nick Dupuis

Saves: 47, Tommy Lingner

Save Percentage: 52.2, Tommy Lingner

Ground Balls: 18, Alex Poma

Caused Turnovers: 6, Colin Kasner (2 games)

Face-Offs Won: 54, Alex Poma

Face-Off Pct.: 55.1, Alex Poma

By the Numbers

0 – The number of previous overtime wins by the Retrievers under Ryan Moran in three tries. They all occurred in the 2019 championship season. UMBC won its first two games in extra time this season.

3- The number of times UMBC has gone to extra time in 2021.

4- The number of one-goal games that UMBC has been involved with in 2021 (3-1).

5 - The number of games that Dupuis has produced multiple points.

12 – Ryan Frawley has scored 12 goals in three career games versus the Catamounts.

20 - UMBC's national ranking by the USILA in games ending March 7. It is the first national ranking for the Retrievers since March 6, 2010 when the 18th-ranked Retrievers fell at No. 4 North Carolina, 12-7.

30 - Frawley's consecutive-game scoring streak, which is UMBC's longest since Pat Young registered at least one point in 41 in a row from 2013-15. Frawley is tied for 21st in the nation for longest poinit-scoring streak.

30 – The place that Frawley has moved into on UMBC's all-time scoring list. His 106 points (87-19-106) is tied with Max Maxwell, whom he played with as a freshman in 2017.

39:53 – The amount of time (approximately 20.5 percent) that UMBC has led in its three one-goal (including two OT victories this season in nearly 195 minutes (194:57) of game play. UMBC never trailed in the win over Hartford and never led in the overtime loss at Binghamton.

68:00 – Historically, UMBC is 3-1 when games go into a third overtime period. UMBC defeated Ohio State, 14-13 in 1992 and Maryland, 9-8, in 2008, but lost to Delaware, 11-10, in 2010.

74:51 – Lingner guarded the cage versus Stony Brook for that long, the lengthiest amount of time played in school history.

2016- The last year that the Retrievers competed in back-to-back overtime games. They won at UMass Lowell, 9-8, then lost in the season finale versus UAlbany, 15-14.

Dawg Bytes

UMBC received 39 votes and earned the USILA No. 20 ranking on March 8. In the March 22 poll, the Retrievers were the top team "receiving votes" with 35. America East school Vermont (16) and UAlbany (19) were listed in the Top 20 and Stony Brook (9) also received votes.
The Retrievers started a season at 3-0 for the first time since 2001. The 4-1 start by the Retrievers matches their mark through the five games played in 2020, a feat not achieved previously since 2001.
UMBC's seven-game winning streak was the second-longest in its NCAA Division I history (1981). The program's longest streak ever of 11 in a row occurred in 2008.
The Retrievers are seventh nationally in clearing percentage at 90.3 percent and tied for eighth in scoring defense, holding foes to 8.6 goals per contest.
Nick Dupuis was selected to the USILA Team of the Week on March 9. Dupuis scored a man-up goal with 1:09 to play in the fourth overtime period to end the longest game in school history on March 7. He completed his first career hat trick in the 13-12 victory over Stony Brook with that dramatic goal and led all scorers with three goals and two assists.
Freshman defenseman Ethan Robinson (Randallstown, Md./McDonogh earned America East Rookie of the Week honors for games ending March 20. Robinson collected four ground balls and caused three turnovers in his first extensive action of the year in the 13-10 win at Hartford.

A Look at the Catamounts and the All-Time Series

The league-leading Catamounts (4-2, 4-0 America East) are ranked 16th in the USILA poll and 13th in the Inside Lacrosse media poll this week. They have won three straight after a close 17-13 loss to then No. 6/7 Syracuse.
Most recently, UVM scored the final three goals of the game to outlast visiting Hartford, 14-9, on March 26. Graduate student attackman Michael McCormick led the way with five goals in the game.
The Catamounts ranked seventh (tied) in the nation, scoring 15.2 goals per game. Junior midfielder Thomas McConvey is tied for 16th in the country, with 18 goals in six games (3.0 per game), while McCormick has netted 17 goals to pace the Vermont attack.
Vermont is also eighth in face-off winning percentage, capturing 67.1 percent of the draws. Individually, sophomore Tommy Burke is sixth nationally, having won 99-of-143 face-offs to date (69.2 percent).
UMBC leads the all-time series, 13-4, but Vermont has won four of the last six meetings. The last time the teams faced off was for all the marbles, as the Retrievers rallied for a 14-13 victory in the 2019 America East Championship game. The entire attack unit of Ryan Frawley, Brett McIntyre and Trevor Patschorke scored four times each, with Patschorke getting the game-winning goal with 66 seconds remaining.
Vermont is only 2-6 against the Retrievers at UMBC Stadium, but has won two of the last three meetings, including 12-11 double-overtime decision in 2019. The Catamounts trailed, 11-6, with less than six minutes remaining, but scored five times in 3:06 in regulation and won it 59 seconds into the second extra period.