The UMBC men's lacrosse team (1-2) continues its rigorous non-conference schedule on Friday, March 11 when the 20th-ranked Utah Utes (3-1) visit Retriever Soccer Park. The opening face-off is slated for 7:00 p.m. and the game will be streamed on the America East digital network.

UMBC (1-2) opened the campaign with a solid 12-8 home win over preseason No. 17 Drexel on Feb. 19, but have dropped hear-breaking one goal decisions at Mount St. Mary's (9-8) and Towson (11-10) over the past two weeks.

Junior attackman Mike Doughty (Glenelg, Md./Glenelg) leads a balanced attack with six goals and two assists through three games. Graduate student attackman Brett Baucia (Crofton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) is right behind with five goals and two helpers.

Senior goalkeeper Tommy Lingner (Fort Salonga, N.Y.) stands ninth in the nation in goals against average (9.02) and sophomore face-off specialist Zach Dudley (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) is 23rd nationally in face-off percentage at 57.6. As a team, UMBC ranks…

• 8th in scoring defense (9.33)
• 17th in face off percentage (57.4)

 
NOTES FROM THE TOWSON GAME

• Junior midfielder Nick Dupuis (Alexandria, Va.) paced the Retrievers' goal scoring with a three-goal effort, the Retrievers' first of the season and Dupuis' fifih over the past two seasons.  Doughty added two goals and two assists, his top-scoring game in black and gold.  

 

• Sophomore midfielder Brian Tregoning (Silver Spring, Md.) gave the Retrievers a 10-9 lead with 6:26 remaining, but the Tigers generated the sixth tie and fourth lead change of the game with scores a minute part at the 5:04 and 4:04 marks.

 
#RETRIEVHERS  
UMBC Athletics is kicking off a year-long initiative to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. As part of the #RetrievHERS celebration, the men's and women's lacrosse programs and the baseball and softball programs will recognize an impactful woman on their programs.

The men's lacrosse program is honoring Amy Fedorchak, the mother of junior defenseman Ricky Fedorchak. Amy was a two-sport student-athlete at Northwestern University, walking onto the softball team and also competing in field hockey. Among her many field hockey honors, she was a 1985 First Team All-American, the 1985 Big Ten Player of the Year and a 1985 Member of the US National Under-21 Team. As part of the Wildcats softball and field hockey teams, she won six Big Ten titles and in 2008, the St. Louis native was inducted into Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame.

Amy graduated in 1986 with a Materials Science and Engineering degree and worked for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for 33 years until her retirement in December 2020.

RETRIEVER NOTEBOOK

• A season ago, UMBC won four of five one-goal decisions, but are 0-2 in those ultra-thin margins in 2022.  

 

• The America East Conference tabbed UMBC graduate student attackman Brett Baucia as its Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week on Feb. 21, 2022. Baucia scored a career-high four goals on a completely re-tooled attack unit in UMBC's opening 12-8 win over preseason No. 17 Drexel on Feb. 19. He directed seven of 10 shots on cage and scrapped for a career-best five ground balls in the victory.

 

• UMBC's five home games and any home playoff action in 2022 will be played on the grass surface of Retriever Soccer Park. The UMBC Stadium Complex (https://fm.umbc.edu/umbc-stadium-upgrades-project-need-to-know/) is currently undergoing major upgrades and construction will continue through the spring months.

 

• The 2021 UMBC Retrievers posted a record of 8-3 and captured a share of the America East regular season title. UMBC played only one non-conference game before winning seven of nine league games. The Retrievers faced Stony Brook and Binghamton twice, sweeping the Seawolves in a pair of overtime thrillers and splitting one-goal decisions in a four-day span versus the Bearcats.

 

• The (share of the) regular season title was UMBC's first since 2009 and fifth in the program's 17-year America East history. UMBC's seven America East victories set a new program record and the eight wins overall was the most since an 8-7 campaign in 2014. UMBC dropped a 14-12 decision to UAlbany in the semifinals of the America East Tournament.

 

• UMBC was ranked in the USILA Top 20 on three occasions in 2021, peaking at No. 17 after the regular season.

 

• Eight of UMBC's 11 games in 2021 were decided by three goals or fewer. UMBC was 3-1 in overtime games.

 

• The UMBC men's lacrosse team has selected fifth-year senior goalkeeper Tommy Lingner (Fort Salonga, N.Y.) and senior midfielder Taylor Bohanan (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) as its captains for the 2022 spring campaign. Both players are first-year captains.

 

• Lingner allowed only 9.18 goals per game in 2021, leading America East and finishing sixth in the nation. As a freshman, the Retriever netminder led the country with a 7.33 GAA. Lingner just became the seventh goalkeeper in school history to record 400 saves.

 

• Graduate student Colin Kasner (Crofton, Md./DeMatha) just became the third Retriever in school history to amass 60 caused turnovers.

 

• UMBC suffered heavy losses on its attack unit, with fifth-years Ryan Frawley and Brett McIntyre and senior Trevor Patschorke earning degrees. The trio combined for 291 points during their tenures on Hilltop Circle.

 

• Freshman attackman Josh Tang (Crofton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) could step into a prominent role in 2022. Inside Lacrosse unveiled its Power 100 Incoming Freshman Rankings for the Class of 2022 and Tang earned the No. 82 spot amongst the nation's elite first-year players.

 

• UMBC will face Utah for the first-time and took on Drexel for the first time since 1995.

 

• Fresh off winning its first-ever America East men's lacrosse title in 2021, Vermont is the preseason favorite to top the standings in 2022. The Retrievers were picked fourth, by just two points behind second-place Stony Brook. UMBC received the only first place vote which did not go to the Catamounts.

 

• Ryan Moran enters his sixth season at the helm of the Retrievers. He earned America East Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2021 after leading the squad to a share of the regular season title. He has led the Retrievers to the league playoffs in four of the five full years of competition. As the No. 4 seed, Moran piloted the 2019 team to an America East title and a NCAA Tournament win over Marist.  Moran is 31-31 overall and 16-11 in America East play.

 

• Nick Griffin, UMBC '21, has joined the coaching staff as a volunteer assistant. Griffin has been a member of the Retriever men's lacrosse program since the fall of 2016. As a sophomore in the spring of 2018, the defenseman became the first UMBC men's lacrosse NCAA Division I student-athlete tabbed to the Google Cloud Academic All-American team. Griffin was named the team's captain in both 2020 and 2021. Griffin joins Joe Bucci and Craig Chick on the UMBC sidelines this season.

 
A GLANCE AT THE UTES 

• Utah notched its first top-10 win in school history, beating the No. 8 Jacksonville Dolphins on the road, 16-10 in its last outing on March 6. The Utes improved to 3-1 overall this season, its best start since the program started in 2019.

 

• Utah's 16 goals scored is the third-most scored in school history and the triumph marked their third consecutive road win after a home-opening 14-13 loss to No. 12 Denver. The Utes were led by sophomore attackman Tyler Bradbury, who recorded a career-high four goals, adding two assists for a season-best six points.

 

• Utah knocked off 2021 America East champion Vermont, 11-10, in Burlington on Feb. 12

 

• Bradbury leads the Utes with 18 points (10g, 8a). Jordan Hyde has also scored 10 goals. Utah is scoring 13.0 goals per game and is ranked second in the nation in clearing percentage at 95.2.

UP NEXT

UMBC plays its final non-conference game of the season on Sunday, March 20 when they travel to Richmond to take on the Spiders. The opening face-off is slated for 3:00 p.m.