Tigersville, SC – The Lincoln Memorial men's lacrosse team falls to the North Greenville Trailblazers Saturday afternoon 12-17.

NGU scored the first three goals of the match: Miller (unassisted) with 8:04 remaining, Castle (Moffat) with 6:30 remaining, and Brubacher (Slais) with 4:30 remaining. Lincoln Memorial scored their first goal of the match with 3:07 remaining, with Alex Winters scoring, unassisted, which was the last goal of the quarter.

The Trailblazers scored the first goal of the second quarter, Brubacher (Slais) with 12:05 remaining. The next three goals would come from the Railsplitters. Rhodes Conroy would score his first goal of the match with 11:12 left in the quarter, unassisted. With 8:38 remaining, Winters would score his second goal of the match with the assist coming from Daniel Pearl. Four minutes later, John Lombel would make his scoring debut of the match with 4:38 remaining, unassisted. North Greenville would then respond with scoring two more goals: Miller (Batton) with 4:00 remaining and Castle (unassisted) with 0:56 remaining. The score at the half would be 4-6 with NGU in the lead.

The third quarter would where the Trailblazers would really extend their lead, as they score 9 goals this quarter. Pearl would score the first goal of the quarter, his first of the match with 13:58 left in the quarter, unassisted. North Greenville would score the next three goals: Jenkins (unassisted) with 11:36 remaining, Reich (Miller) with 7:50 remaining, and Steinman (unassisted) with 7:13 remaining. Not even a minute later, Conroy would score his second goal of the match with 6:23 left in the quarter, unassisted. NGU would score 6 goals within 6 minutes to solidify their lead: Moffat (Miller) with 5:53 remaining, Castle (unassisted) with 5:05 remaining, Miller (Robinson) with 2:44 remaining, Reich (Miller) with 0:52 remaining, and Moffat (Castle) at the whistle with 0:00 remaining.

The fourth quarter would be Lincoln Memorial's highest scoring quarter. Winters would be the first to score with 12:13 left in the quarter with Domenico Moscato earning his first assist of the match. A little over a minute later, Lucas Barsauskas would tally his first goal of the match, unassisted, with 11:08 remaining in the quarter. NGU would score their first out of two goals of the quarter with 8:42 remaining, with Castle (Smith) scoring. Brock Saunders would also earn his first goal with 6:33 remaining, unassisted. North Greenville would score their last goal of the match with 5:29 remaining, with Castle (unassisted) scoring. The last three goals of the match would come from Lincoln Memorial. Conroy would earn the hat trick as he scores his third goal of the match with 4:50 remaining, unassisted. Jack Snider would score his first goal of the match not even a minute later, with 4:15 remaining, with Pearl earning the assist. Pearl would get the brace as he scores his second goal of the match with 0:03 remaining, unassisted. Despite the high scoring quarter from LMU, North Greenville extended their lead enough in the third to give NGU the win 12-17.

Winters and Conroy would both earn hat tricks with 3 goals each. Pearl would tally 2 goals and 2 assists. Snider, Saunders, Barsauskas, and Lombel would each record 1 goal each. Moscato would post 1 assist. Connor Fitzgibbon would record 16 saves on the afternoon.
Haden Berry would lead in ground balls with 7, and Conroy would lead in caused turnovers with 2.

As a team, LMU recorded 37 shots with 24 of those being on goal, 24 successful clears, 19 ground balls, 17 caused turnovers, and won 18 face-offs.

With the loss, the Railsplitters move to 0-1 overall.

Their next match will be their home opener on Friday, February 7 against Willian Jewell College at 7 pm.