'KEENE, N.H. 04/29/06 - Freshman attack Tony Santa Fe (Derry, N.H.) scored a season high five goals and added an assist to lead Keene State College to a 16-4 Little East Conference men's lacrosse victory over the University of Southern Maine at Owl Athletic Complex on Saturday.

Finishing second in the LEC, Keene State (10-2, 5-1 LEC) will get a first round tournament bye and host the winner of the UMass-Dartmouth/UMass-Boston quarterfinal game in a semifinal LEC Tournament contest on Thursday (3:30 p.m.). Southern Maine concludes its season at 2-10 (0-6 LEC).

Santa Fe, who now has 22 goals this season, had two goals and one assist as KSC jumped out to a 4-0 lead after the first quarter.  He would tally three more goals in the second quarter as KSC increased its lead to 11-1 at halftime.

Playing his first game of the season after an illness, junior attack Greg Gonzales (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) came off the bench to score four goals.  Taylor Morasutti (Cheshire, Conn.) added three goals and Mike LeSage (Exeter, N.H.), Sean Panora (South Windsor, Conn.), Peter Lauranzano (Beverly, Mass.), and Matt Lowe (Hudson, Mass.) added singles goals for the Owls.

Zach Fermanis (Gorham, Me.) led the Huskies with two goals and two assists.

KSC goalie Matt Johnson (Derry, N.H.) made three saves before giving way to Brad Bishop (Brunswick, Me.) with six minutes to play in the second quarter. He finished with six saves.

Jeff Lamoureux (Walpole, Mass.) had a busy day in goal for USM finishing the game with 24 saves. 

Keene State has won the last five meetings between the two teams.