Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. Maryland coach John Tillman joined the 100-win club with the program, after the No. 2 Terps turned in a dominant 13-6 performance against No. 17 Penn at College Park on Wednesday night. Tillman becomes the fastest coach in program history to reach that mark.
The Terps jumped out to a 5-0 lead and never trailed against the Quakers. Freshman midfielder Logan Wisnauskas scored four of his team-high five goals in the first half, making it three out of four multi-goal games to start his Maryland career.
Goalie Dan Morris also chipped in 13 saves to the Terps’ effort, which would move him into the top 15 nationally in saves per game.
The team tweeted out a video tribute to Tillman shortly after the game.
Tuesday’s men’s scores:
Monmouth 17, Wagner 4
No. 10 Mount Olive 6, Coker 3 (Division II)
No. 12 Gettysburg 14, Goucher 8 (Division III)
2. Boston College used a pair of four-goal efforts from Sam Apuzzo and Dempsey Arsenault to get by No. 19 UMass 16-9 on Wednesday afternoon — a win that moved it to 4-0 for the first time since 2014. Freshman Jordan Lappin scored the first three goals of her career to help the Eagles effort.
Arsenault scored all four of her goals in the first half, allowing Boston College to break open a tight first 15 minutes and take an 11-5 lead into halftime.
UMass cut the lead to 11-8 with 21:19 left in the game, but Apuzzo’s three goals in the final 15 minutes sealed the win for the Eagles.
Elsewhere in the women’s game, No. 19 Penn State got a career-high four goals from Sophia Triandafils to blow out Duquesne and No. 14 Virginia’s Kasey Behr tallied four goals in a win over Richmond.
Tuesday notable women’s scores:
No. 4 Boston College 16, No. 19 UMass 9
No. 14 Virginia 15, Richmond 7
No. 18 Penn State 19, Duquesne 8
Johns Hopkins 14, Loyola 11
Army 21, Central Connecticut State 4
Villanova 17, Bucknell 7
Yale 13, Quinnipiac 8
Saint Joseph's 18, Temple 11
Virginia Tech 17, Campbell 8
3. Virginia commit Elizabeth Fransworth leads a Hutchison (Tenn.) team that enters 2018 as reigning TGLA champions and No. 1 in the Nike/US Lacrosse South Region Girls’ Preseason Top 10. Four-time All-American Griffin Gearhardt is gone, but a talented senior class should lead Hutchison.
American Heritage-Delray (Fla.), St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.), Milton (Ga.) and Cardinal Gibbons (N.C.) were included in the South top 5.
Jay Browne (Episcopal School of Dallas, Texas), Elizabeth Farnsworth (Hutchison, Tenn.), Tess Meurling (Apex, N.C.), Carly Steinhauf (St. Thomas Aquinas, Fla.) and Caitlyn Wurzburger (American Heritage-Delray, Fla.) are the players to watch.
4. St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.), despite the loss of two-time South Region Player of the Year Kevin Crowley, tops the Nike/US Lacrosse South Region Boys’ Preseason Top 10. St. Thomas Aquinas does return two starting midfielders, the entire defense, a pair of long-stick middies and goalie Ryan Leahy, last year’s backup who made nine saves in the state title game.
Rounding out the boys’ South top 5 is Dallas Jesuit (Texas), Lassiter (Ga.), Lambert (Ga.) and Middle Creek (N.C.).
Scott Bower (Episcopal Dallas, Texas), Owen Caputo (Middle Creek, N.C.), Chase Scanlan (IMG Academy, Fla.), Nicky Solomon (Centennial, Ga.) and David Sprock (Dallas Jesuit, Texas) make up the players to watch.
5. Stony Brook opened its season with two quality wins on the West Coast, outlasting then-No. 5 USC and following it up with a dominating with over Stanford. Courtney Murphy is back after spending most of the 2017 season out with an ACL injury, and she dropped four goals and four assists in her season debut.
The season doesn’t get any easier — Stony Brook will face Denver this weekend, followed by teams like No. 15 Northwestern, No. 9 Towson, No. 17 Cornell, Johns Hopkins and No. 18 Penn State. Coach Joe Spallina doesn’t want to look too far ahead.
“We’re 2-0 after two tough games, we have a lot of work to do,” Spallina said. “We can’t get caught up looking at the finish line.”