Bobcats Travel to LIU for Regular-Season Finale

Quinnipiac (9-3, 5-3 MAAC) at LIU (9-3, 6-2 MAAC)
Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 2:00 PM
Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium | Brookville, NY
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BROOKVILLE, NY – Quinnipiac Men's Lacrosse readies for the 2024 regular season finale on Saturday afternoon, as the Bobcats travel to LIU for a clash between two of the top teams in the MAAC.

QU enters with a 5-3 league record, while the Sharks own a 6-2 MAAC mark to date.

STRONG SEASON FOR THE BOBCATS

QU entered the Inside Lacrosse Division I Media Poll on March 25, as the Bobcats were tabbed No. 20 in the national rankings for one week.
Quinnipiac was the last remaining unbeaten team in all of Division I lacrosse. The Bobcats' 7-0 start to the year marked the program's best effort to begin a season since 2008.
QU has defeated St. John's, Brown, Bryant, Merrimack, Canisius, Wagner, Marist, Mount St. Mary's and VMI thus far in 2024 under Head Coach Mason Poli.
The Bobcats are currently 3nd nationally in shot percentage (.354) and 14th in scoring offense (13.42 goals per game).

OAK NAMED TO TEWAARATON WATCH LIST

The Tewaaraton Foundation has announced the first round of additions to the 2024 Tewaaraton Award Men's and Women's Watch Lists. The lists include the top players across all three divisions of NCAA lacrosse and highlight the early contenders for this year's Tewaaraton Award.
Quinnipiac goalie Mason Oak was included in the first round of additions, as revealed on March 7, 2024.
Oak leads the entire country in saves per game (15.83), and ranks fourth nationally in save percentage (59.7%).
Oak has registered double-digit save totals in every game this year. He made a career-high 22 stops in the Bobcats' contest vs. Sacred Heart on April 10.

STRONG OFFENSIVE ATTACK

8 different Bobcats have registered double-digit point totals this year, led by Ryan Donnery (51 points). Brother Dylan Donnery has added 39 points and a team-high 30 goals. Steven Germain is up to 40 points, while John DeLucia has 32 points in 12 games.
Jake Tellers is up to 22 points, while Trevor Douglas has added 19 points. Justin Robbert has 15 points everall, while Evan Perry is at 12 points.

LAST TIME OUT: BOBCATS DOWN VMI ON SENIOR DAY (4/13)

Quinnipiac Men's Lacrosse earned a big senior day victory on Saturday afternoon, holding on late to top Virginia Military Institute by the final score of 13-12 at the QU Lacrosse Stadium.
Dylan Donnery paced the Bobcats with four goals and one assist, while Steven Germain added two goals and three helpers. QU had six different goal scorers in total.
Mason Oak, the nation's leader in saves per game, made 17 more stops in the win.

STRONG RETURNING ATTACK

QU returns all 10 of its top scorers from the No. 2 offense in the league a season ago (13.07 goals per game):

John DeLucia (52 points)
Steven Germain (47 points)
Dylan Donnery (43 points)
Jake Tellers (36 points)
Justin Robbert (29 points)
Evan Perry (24 points)
Trevor Douglas (23 points)
Trey Gehen (17 points)
Luke Hendricks (8 points)
Ryan Downing (4 points)

2024 CAPTAINS ANNOUNCED

Quinnipiac Men's Lacrosse and Head Coach Mason Poli have revealed the Bobcats' captains for the upcoming 2024 season, as announced on Feb. 7, 2024.
John DeLucia, Zack Siegel, Steven Germain, and Trevor Douglas will serve as the leadership group for Quinnipiac – who begins the new season on Saturday, Feb. 10 at St. John's.
DeLucia, a two-time captain, enters his fifth season at Quinnipiac with 96 career points (68 goals, 28 assists). He led the Bobcats with 52 total points a season ago, scoring 31 goals over 14 QU contests. DeLucia tallied six hat tricks in 2023. The Guilford, Connecticut-native has recorded 53 goals over the last two seasons with the Bobcats.
Zack Siegel will represent QU as a captain for the second consecutive season. He's played in 30 games over the past three years at Quinnipiac, helping anchor the Bobcats' defense under Poli. Siegel has scooped up 33 ground balls, and has caused 15 turnovers during his time at QU.
Steven Germain returns for his senior season with the Bobcats after scoring 24 goals to go along with 23 assists (47 points) last year. Germain has 84 career points at QU over three seasons – 48 goals and 36 helpers. The Setauket, New York-native enters the spring of 2024 having played in 34 games at QU.
Trevor Douglas rounds out the leadership group for the Bobcats. The senior midfielder enjoyed a breakout season for the Bobcats in 2023, recording all 23 career points (18 goals, five assists) a year ago. Douglas has also scooped up eight ground balls and caused three turnovers during his collegiate career.

HEAD COACH MASON POLI

Mason Poli, a former standout lacrosse player at Bryant University, enters his 10th season with the Quinnipiac coaching staff in 2023-2024 – and his sixth at the helm of the program.
After serving as an assistant for the Bobcats' program for four seasons (2015-18), Poli was elevated to Interim Head Coach for the 2019 season. He was then named Men's Lacrosse Head Coach on May 10, 2019, becoming the Bobcats' sixth head coach in program history and third at the Division I level.
QU has won 22 games in five seasons under Poli to this point.
In 2019 as Interim Head Coach, Poli led Quinnipiac men's lacrosse to a 9-7 (5-2 MAAC) record and a MAAC Tournament championship contest appearance. Poli led all first-year Division I head coaches in total wins (9) and winning percentage (.562) in 2019.

PRESEASON ALL-MAAC SELECTIONS

Quinnipiac Men's Lacrosse has been selected to finish 5^th in the 2024 Preseason MAAC Coaches' Poll, as revealed by the league on Wednesday, Jan. 24.
John DeLucia (attack), Steven Germain and Jake Tellers (midfield) and Ryan Downing (LSM) were all selected to the Preseason All-MAAC squad, as well. The Bobcats received 65 total points in the poll and one first-place vote.
FULL POLL - CLICK HERE

LAST YEAR (2023)

QU went 7-6 overall most recently in the spring of 2023. The Bobcats finished with the second-highest scoring offense in the league (13.07 Goals Per Game), and ranked first in the league/14^th nationally in assists (8.00 APG).
Quinnipiac has turned in a winning conference record in three of five seasons under Head Coach Mason Poli. The 2024 Bobcats will return All-MAAC performers Steven Germain, John DeLucia, Jake Tellers and Justin Robbert.

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Players Mentioned

John DeLucia

Dylan Donnery

Ryan Donnery

Trevor Douglas

Ryan Downing

Trey Gehen

Steven Germain

Luke Hendricks

Mason Oak

Evan Perry

Justin Robbert

Zack Siegel

Jake Tellers

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