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UD men’s lacrosse team to face No. 6 Georgetown

10:47 a.m., March 15, 2004--The 5-1 University of Delaware men’s lacrosse team is preparing for a difficult midweek challenge as the Fightin’ Blue Hens take on sixth-ranked Georgetown University.

The game will be played at 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, at Georgetown’s Harbin Field.

UD earned its fifth win of the season on Saturday, downing the University of Albany 10-7 at Rullo Stadium.

Freshman Cam Howard and senior Matt Alrich combined for seven goals, and Chris Collins stopped 17 shots for the Hens.

Howard scored a career-high four goals and added two assists, and Alrich scored three goals and had one assist. Alrich, who leads the team with 14 goals on the season, has now scored at least one goal in 21 straight games and notched his 11th career hat trick.

Ryan Metzbower, Andy Hipple and Kurt Nordhoff each added goals for UD.

Albany, whose head coach is former UD assistant Scott Marr, fell to 1-2 on the season despite three goals from Merrick Thomson. Frank Resetarits had two goals and two assists, and Chris Martocchia had two goals and one assist.

Albany, which was coming off a 17-6 loss to top-ranked Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, captured the America East Conference title and advanced to the NCAA tournament a year ago.

UD scored three of the first four goals of the game before Albany came back to tie it at 3-3 on two consecutive goals by Resetarits, the second with just one second left in the opening quarter.

Alrich and Metzbower scored to open the second quarter but Albany came back to tie the game again, this time at 5-5, on goals by Martocchia and Thomson.

UD broke the tie and took a 6-5 lead into intermission when Howard grabbed a loose ball and grounded a shot past Albany goalkeeper Kevin Rae with just 30 seconds left before halftime.

Howard helped the Hens go up 8-5 in the third quarter as he fed Alrich for a goal five minutes in and then followed with an unassisted goal of his own with 4:01 left in the quarter.

Albany rallied, cutting the lead to 8-7 on a goal by Thomson with 5:21 left to play, but Howard struck again, feeding Alrich for a goal with 4:14 left and scoring himself with 3:20 remaining.

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