After three consecutive weeks down and up the east coast, the UMBC men's lacrosse team (2-5, 0-2 America East) returns to Retriever Soccer Park when they host the first of three
America East Conference clashes on Saturday, April 9. The UAlbany Great Danes () provide the opposition and Saturday's opening face-off is slated for noon.  

The Retrievers are 2-0 at home, but 0-5 away from their temporary home field in 2022. Both of UMBC's victories occurred versus ranked opponents (Drexel, Utah).  

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 12 goals.

Fifth-year goalkeeper Tommy Lingner's (Fort Salonga, N.Y.) 10.72 goals against average is ranked 24th in the nation.

Sophomore face-off specialist Zach Dudley (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's) continues to excel as he won 9 of 17 draws against one of the nation's top face-off teams in Vermont. He has gotten control of 27 of his last 41 (65.9 percent) in league play and is at 54.0 percent (32nd nationally) for the season. 

Baucia is the lone Retriever with points in all seven games to date. He recorded his second hat-trick and 4-point game of the season and in his career against the Binghamton on March 26.

IN MEMORIUM

On Tuesday, April 5, the UMBC men's lacrosse team posted the following message.

"Our thoughts and players are with the family of Robert Martin, the Binghamton lacrosse team and the greater community. Today, we wore @BinghamtonMLAX green in support of student-athletes everywhere struggling with this loss and many others.

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 439 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 32-34 overall and 16-13 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 GREAT DANES    

• UAlbany has won three consecutive games – by a total of five goals – including a 14-12 victory over Syracuse in Albany on Thursday evening.
• Great Dane netminder Will Ramos made his first start of the season versus the Orange and collected 15 saves, while junior midfielder Graydon Hogg led the offense with four goals. UAlbany was outshot, 52-30, in the contest.  
• After an opening 18-10 America East loss to Binghamton, the Danes have defeated Stony Brook, 12-10, and UMass Lowell, 13-12.
• Hogg leads the offense with 16 goals and eight assists.
• The Danes have been dynamic on man-up, scoring 17 goals on 34 opportunities. UAlbany is winning 45.8 percent of its draws,  

 
SERIES NOTES 

• UAlbany leads the all-time series with UMBC, 15-11, and has won nine of the last ten encounters.
• In 2021, the Great Danes won a pair of games over the Retrievers, and were the lone America East team to defeat UMBC a year ago. UAlbany prevailed, 14-9, in Albany on April 11, then edged the Retrievers, 14-12, in the league semifinals at UMBC Stadium.
• In that playoff game, the Retrievers rallied from an early 7-1 deficit to knot the score at 11 and 12-all, but the Great Danes scored twice in the final 2:27 to escape with the win. 
• UMBC's last win over UAlbany occurred in 2018, an 11-7 home triumph when the Great Danes were ranked No. 1 in the country. UMBC is 9-6 at home versus UAlbany.  

UP NEXT

UMBC competes at UMass Lowell on Saturday, April 16. Game time at Cushing Field is set for noon.