The UMBC men's lacrosse team (2-4, 0-1 America East) completes a three-game road odyssey when they visit Vermont (4-6, 1-0) at Virtue Field on Saturday, April 2. The opening face-off is slated for noon.   

The Retrievers will be looking for their first road win of the season in Burlington. UMBC has won two home games versus ranked opponents (Drexel, Utah), but dropped all four road decisions in 2022.

Sophomore attackman Mike Doughty (Glenelg, Md./Glenelg) leads the offense with eight goals and nine assists, while graduate student linemate Brett Baucia (Crofton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) is the team leader with 11 goals.

Fifth-year goalkeeper Tommy Lingner's (Fort Salonga, N.Y.) 10.51 goals against average is ranked 18th in the nation.

Sophomore face-off specialist Zach Dudley (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) won 18 of 24 face-offs at Binghamton and rose to 32 nd in the country with a 54.2 winning success rate. The 18 draws won is the most by a Retriever since the 2014 season.  

NOTES FROM: BINGHAMTON 12, UMBC 8

• Baucia (3g, 1a) recorded his second hat-trick and 4-point game of the season and in his career against the Bearcats. He scored all three of his goals in the second half.
• UMBC cut a 10-3 late third quarter deficit to 10-8 on Baucia's third goal with 9:56 remaining, but could not complete the rally.
• Sophomore attackman Matt Holland (Owings, Md./Northern) scored his first career goal.
• UMBC scored on two of four extra-man chances and is 4-of-8 in the last two games.   

RETRIEVER NOTEBOOK

• A season ago, UMBC won four of five one-goal decisions, but are 0-2 in those ultra-thin margins in 2022. 
• UMBC has captured two America East awards to date. The league tabbed freshman Kevin Doughty  (Glenelg, Md./Glenelg) as its Rookie of the Week for his two-goal effort in the 13-10 win over Utah. Graduate student attackman Brett Baucia earned Offensive Player of the Week on Feb. 21, 2022. He scored a career-high four goals in UMBC's opening 12-8 win over preseason No. 17 Drexel on Feb. 19.
• 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 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. His 432 stops is now sixth on UMBC's all-time list.
• Graduate student Colin Kasner (Crofton, Md./DeMatha) recently became the third Retriever in school history to amass 60 caused turnovers and now has 62.  
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 32-33 overall and 16-12 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 CATAMOUNTS   

• The defending America East champions and 2022 preseason favorites are 4-6 overall, but has won two consecutive games heading into the contest versus the Retrievers on Saturday. 
• Vermont is 3-1 at home this year, including back-to-back wins over NJIT (14-3) and Canisius (15-6) in the last two weeks.
• A veteran Catamount squad is scoring 11.6 goals per game and allowing 9.5. Vermont is fifth in the county with a face-off percentage rate of 63.1.
• Tommy Burke is ranked sixth nationally, facing off at a 62.2 percent rate.
• Senior midfielder Thomas McConvey leads the offense with 22 goals and shares the team lead in scoring with attackman David Closterman (15g, 14a) at 29 points.
• Graduate student goalkeeper Ryan Cornell is ranked tenth nationally, allowing 9.48 goals per game.   

SERIES NOTES 

• UMBC leads the all-time series with Vermont, 14-4 and have won the last two contests.
• Vermont has prevailed the last two times in Burlington and the Retrievers' last victory in Vermont occurred in 2014.
• Sophomore midfielder Brian Tregoning (Silver Spring, Md.) posted a hat trick in last season's 10-8 win over the 16th-ranked Catamounts.

UP NEXT

UMBC returns to Retriever Soccer Park when they entertain UAlbany on Saturday, April 9 at noon.