QU Men's Lacrosse Opens MAAC Play Against Monmouth Saturday

Saturday, March 18

Reese Stadium - New Haven, CT

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

Monmouth University

QU Men's Lacrosse Opens MAAC Play Against Monmouth Saturday

3/15/2017 11:39:00 AM | Men's Lacrosse

By: QU Sports Information

Quinnipiac Bobcats (1-4, 0-0 MAAC) vs.
Monmouth Hawks (3-3, 0-0)
Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 7:00 PM
Reese Stadium (Yale) - New Haven, Conn.
All-Time Series vs. Monmouth: QU leads 3-0
Last Meeting: QU 8-5 (at Monmouth last season)

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LAST GAME (Hartford 11, Quinnipiac 9)
Quinnipiac used a 4-0 run in the fourth quarter to take a 9-8 lead, but Hartford responded with the final three goals to earn an 11-9 win over the Bobcats on Saturday at Reese Stadium. Down 8-5, the Bobcats had four different players tally fourth-quarter goals to surge ahead. Freshman Jake Satterley started the run when he came from behind the net for an unassisted tally, and junior midfielder Ryan Lawson followed with a goal from long range on a right-to-left cut to close the deficit to one. Junior midfielder Anthony Carchietta knotted the score after starting from behind the net and making a wide circle around the defense before finding space from 10 yards out, and then he fed junior attack James Byrns on an EMO to give the Bobcats their first lead of the game with just over four minutes left. Hartford bounced back with the next two goals and withstood three tying shot attempts from the Bobcats before sealing the win with a last-minute goal. Carchietta finished with two goals and two assists, while Kevin Diehl, Brian Feldman, Matt Frost, and Foster Cuomo also had goals.

LAST YEAR vs. MONMOUTH (Quinnipiac 8-5)
Quinnipiac clinched the regular season MAAC championship and the right to host the conference tournament with an 8-5 road win over Monmouth last year. Ryan Keenan had a big day on offense with four goals, while goalkeeper Jack Brust had six of his eight saves in the second half to help the Bobcats preserve the win. With the score tied 4-4 early in the third, Quinnipiac scored three straight goals, with Ryan Corcoran putting the Bobcats ahead to stay, Will Vitelli scoring right off the ensuing faceoff for his first collegiate goal, and Keenan finishing it off in front off a feed from Anthony Carchietta. Foster Cuomo and Brian Feldman also had goals for the Bobcats.

CARCHIETTA NAMED MAAC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF WEEK
Junior midfielder Anthony Carchietta was named the MAAC Offensive Player of the Week on Monday, earning his first career honor from the league. Carchietta had three goals and four assists in two games, tallying one goal and two assists at No. 19 Princeton and then adding two goals and two assists against Hartford. He had a big role in a near-comeback for the Bobcats, capping off a 4-0 run with the tying goal and go-ahead assist to put Quinnipiac ahead 9-8 with just over four minutes left, before the Hawks scored the final three goals for the win.

FELDMAN'S GOAL STREAK REACHES 15...
Entering the weekend, Brian Feldman has a streak of 15 straight games with at least one goal, dating back to being held scoreless by Marquette last spring, which outs him in fourth on the active list nationally. Only nine players in the country currently have a goal scoring streak of 10 or more, led by Dylan Molloy of Brown with 30 in a row.  Feldman had hat tricks in the first four games this season, including six goals against Bellarmine, and is now in eighth place on Quinnipiac's career goals list with 81 in only his junior season.

...AND CUOMO'S REACHES 12
One of the other players in the country with a double-digit goal streak is sophomore midfielder Foster Cuomo. Since being held without a goal (but contributing three assists) in a lopsided win at Detroit last year, Cuomo found the net in each of the last seven games (four of which were in the postseason), and has scored in each of the first five contests this year.

1.          30 Dylan Molloy, Brown, A, Sr.
2.          20 Nick Hruby, Air Force, A, Jr.
3.          17 Justin Guterding, Duke, A, Jr.
4.          15          Brian Feldman, Quinnipiac, A, Jr.
5. 14 Gavin McBride, Princeton, A, Sr.
14 Cam Milligan, Vermont, A, Sr.
   14 Griffin Feiner, Hartford, M, Jr.
8. 13 Marc Buermann, Holy Cross, M, Sr.
9. 12 Foster Cuomo, Quinnipiac, M, So.

FELDMAN MOVES INTO EIGHTH ON CAREER GOALS LIST
Junior attack Brian Feldman is well ahead of pace to become only the fourth player in school history to record 100 career goals and the first to do it in the last 15 years. Feldman had 29 goals as a freshman and 36 last season, putting him in eighth on the single-season list, and his quick start to this season (17 goals in five games) has him up into eighth on the career list in only his junior season with 82. His 36 goals last season made him only the eighth different Division I player (tenth overall) in school history to have a 30-goal season.

QUINNIPIAC TOP CAREER GOAL SCORERS
1   144    Mike Baglio '02
2   140 Joe Baglio '02
3   117 Alan LoGiudice '01
4   94 Ryan Keenan '16
5   88    Corey Pronsky '97
6   84    Michael Sagl '15
84    Andy Pelletier '04
8 82    Brian Feldman '18
9 79    Jack Oppenheimer '11
10 77    Dylan Webster '14

A COLLECTION OF HAT TRICKS FOR FELDMAN
In his third season, junior attack Brian Feldman has recorded hat tricks an impressive 15 different times, including the first four games this season. The Bobcats were 6-0 last season when he had a hat trick and are now 10-5 overall in his career when he has three goals or more:

FELDMAN CAREER HAT TRICKS
2015
4G - March 7, 2015 at Hartford (L 10-9)
3G - March 21, 2015 vs. Detroit (W 13-12)
5G - March 31, 2015 vs. Stony Brook (L 17-9)
3G - April 23, 2015 at Air Force (W 12-10)
5G - April 30, 2015 vs. Detroit (W 16-9)
2016
3G - Feb. 27, 2016 at Bellarmine (W 12-6)
3G - March 5, 2016 vs. NJIT (W 9-7)
3G - March 12, 2016 at Hartford (W 11-10)
3G - March 26, 2016 vs. Siena (W 11-6)
5G - April 10, 2016 at Detroit (W 14-4)
7G - April 16, 2016 vs. Canisius (W 17-9)
2017
3G - Feb. 19, 2017 at Brown (L 9-25)
6G - Feb. 25, 2017 vs. Bellarmine (L 13-14)
3G - March 4, 2017 at NJIT (W 11-8)
4G - March 7, 2017 at Princeton (L 13-17)

CORCORAN JOINS HAT TRICK CLUB
Junior midfielder Ryan Corcoran scored three goals against NJIT on March 4, registering his first career hat trick, He is now one of five players on the Bobcats who have scored three goals in a game, led by 15 from Brian Feldman. Matt Frost had three goals in his second collegiate game at NJIT last year, while Foster Cuomo and Drew D'Antonio both achieved the feat for the first time in the MAAC Tournament last year, with Cuomo tallying four goals in the semifinals against Canisius and D'Antonio scoring four times in the championship against Marist.

NOT A REPLAY
Sophomore Foster Cuomo pretty much duplicated his own memorable goal from last year's MAAC Championship game in Tuesday's game at Princeton. Last year's blind over-the-shoulder shot earned him a spot on SportsCenter's Top 10 as the Bobcats defeated Marist 13-9 to earn their first MAAC Championship. From almost the same spot on the field, Cuomo pulled off the same shot against Princeton in the final minute of the fourth quarter.

TRI-CAPTAINS IN 2017
Quinnipiac will have tri-captains for the 2017 season. Senior Jack Brust and Kevin Diehl have been captains since the fall season, while fellow senior Drew D'Antonio added captain duties for the spring. They are expected to be the only three seniors that the Bobcats lose after this season (attack Zach Malsky is also a senior, but has a redshirt year available if he chooses to use it).

CUOMO SHARES MAAC PRESEASON PLAYER OF YEAR
Sophomore midfielder Foster Cuomo was named the 2017 MAAC Preseason Co-Player of the Year in a vote of the league's coaches. Cuomo was a second-team All-MAAC midfielder last year, but closed the season playing his best lacrosse under pressure, scoring 11 of his 22 goals in the postseeaon after the all-conference teams were picked. The Bobcats were a unanimous pick to repeat as league champions.

MAAC WIN STREAK ON THE LINE
The Bobcats enter the start of conference play this weekend, facing Monmouth in a battle of the teams picked 1-2 in the league's preseason poll. Quinnipiac has a 10-game winning streak in conference contests, going a perfect 6-0 last year and winning their final four league games of the 2015 campaign after starting 0-2. The Bobcats have had some close calls in their streak, particularly an overtime win at Marist last year when they tied the score with just three seconds left in regulation (and won with one second left in overtime).

WHERE THERE'S A WILL...
Junior face-off specialist Will Vitelli had a dominant performance at the X on March 4 against NJIT, winning 19 of 22. His dominance is nothing new for the Bobcats, as his performances last year were a strong barometer for Quinnipiac's success or failure. In six of Quinnipiac's wins, Vitelli was dominant on face-offs, including a 19-for-19 effort against Marist which earned him the National Player of the Week honor. He won 75.3 percent of his face-offs in conference games (64-of-85) and also was 15-of-22 against Bellarmine and 13-of-20 against NJIT to help the Bobcats to non-conference wins. In the two meetings with defending MAAC champion Marist, Vitelli was a remarkable 39-of-44 (.887), including 20-of-25 in the MAAC title game. Even more remarkable, Vitelli walked on to the team as a freshman and had never taken face-offs in his life before entering college.

VITELLI'S TOP PERFORMANCES AT THE X
2016
at Bellarmine (15-22, .682)
NJIT (13-20, .650)
Siena (16-21, .762)
at Marist (19-19, 1.000)
Canisius (16-25, .640)
at Monmouth (12-16, .750)
vs. Marist (20-25, .833)

2017
NJIT (19-22, .864)
Princeton (15-24, .625)

NEXT UP
Quinnipiac concludes its three-game homestand when it hosts Detroit Mercy next Sunday for an 11 a.m. contest.