The UMBC men's lacrosse team (4-6, 2-3 America East) hopes to improve its playoff position as they host NJIT on Senior Night at Retriever Soccer Park on Friday, April 29.

The opening face-off is set for 7:00 p.m. and the game will be broadcast on the America East digital network with Gary Stein and Nick Doyle, '21 on the call.

The Retrievers will honor two graduate students – defenders Colin Kasner and Corey Gaines  - and four seniors as they compete for the final time on Hilltop Circle. The departing seniors are short-stick defensive midfielder Keith Dukes, face-off specialist Andrew Hurdle, goalkeeper Tommy Lingner and midfielder Jack Thomas.

The senior ceremony will begin at 6:45 p.m. and the opening face-off just after 7:00 p.m.

Should UMBC prevail over NJIT, the Retrievers would be the No. 3 seed in the America East Tournament and face No. 2 Binghamton in Burlington, Vermont on Thursday. A loss drops the Retrievers into fourth place and a date with regular season champion Vermont at Virtue Field.

Sophomore attackman Mike Doughty (Glenelg, Md./Glenelg) leads the offense with 15 goals and 15 assists. His 1.5 assists per game is fourth in America East, while his 3.0 points per contest is eighth.  

Doughty is one of five Retrievers in double figures in goals scored. Sophomore linemate Brian Tregoning (Silver Spring, Md.) also has 15 goals and grad student Brett Baucia (Crofton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) has contributed 14.Baucia is the lone Retriever with points in all ten games to date.

Freshman midfielder Jordan Galloway has scored 13 times, while junior linemate Dane Hall (Harwood, Md.) just reach the 10-goal plateau.  

Fifth-year goalkeeper Tommy Lingner's (Fort Salonga, N.Y.) 10.21 goals against average is ranked 13th in the nation.

Sophomore face-off specialist Zach Dudley (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) just became the 26th player in school history to win 100 face-offs in a single season. His 116 face-offs won is 19^th-best mark in a UMBC history. Dudley He is third in America East with 5.1 ground balls per game.

 NOTES FROM STONY BROOK 13, UMBC 11

• Senior goalkeeper Tommy Lingner (Fort Salonga, N.Y.) excelled in the nets for UMBC, stopping a career-high 19 shots on goal by the Seawolves.

 

• Galloway registered a season/career best five-point game and joined junior Mike Doughty as first-time three-goal scorers.

 

• The home loss was UMBC's first of the season (3-1) and first ever on the Bermuda grass of Retriever Soccer Park. The Retrievers won all three contests played on that field in 2006.  

RETRIEVER NOTEBOOK

• UMBC stands fourth in the nation in man-down defense, killing off 24 of 31 penalties through ten games.  After allowing four XMG in the first three games of the season, the Retrievers went for five consecutive games without allowing a man-up goal until surrendering one at UML on April 16.

 

• The Retrievers are ranked 16th nationally in scoring defense, allowing 10.30 goals per game.  

 

• 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 four America East awards to date.

• Brian Tregoning, Soph., A, Offensive Player of the Week, April 18
• Kyle Hoff, Soph., SSDM Defensive Player of the Week, April 11
• Kevin Doughty, Freshman, M, Rookie of the Week, March 14
• Brett Baucia, Grad, A, Offensive Player of the Week, Feb. 21, 2022.

 

• UMBC's five home games 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. Earlier this season, Lingner became the seventh goalkeeper in school history to record 400 saves. His 480 stops is sixth on UMBC's all-time list and he needs seven more to move into fifth place.

 

• 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 34-35 overall and 18-14 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 HIGHLANDERS

• NJIT is winless on the season (0-12, 0-5 America East), but has waged some good battles over the past month, falling, 8-7, to UMass Lowell on March 26 and 12-11 at Marist on April 12.
• Most recently, on their Senior Day, NJIT held UAlbany to four first half goals and trailed just, 4-3, at halftime, before dropping a 16-6 decision to the Great Danes. NJIT caused eight of UA's 23 turnovers.
• Sophomore attackman Gavyn Willson, who scored twice vs. UAlbany, has amassed a team best 15 goals and 26 points in only nine games played. Classmate Billy Kroeger has won 77 of 144 face-offs (53.5 percent), while junior goalkeeper Liam Brown brings a solid 51.6 save percentage into the Highlanders' season finale.

SERIES HISTORY

• In the first-ever meeting between the two teams last May 1, UMBC captured a 14-6 victory in Newark.
• Tommy Lingner tied a then career-best with 18 saves, including 15 in the final 45 minutes of play.