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KEENE STATE OWLS
Men's Lacrosse Postgame 5.4.2023
8
Keene State KSC 9-7
13
Winner Western Connecticut WCSU 14-4
Keene State KSC
9-7
8
Final
13
Western Connecticut WCSU
14-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Keene State KSC 1 2 3 2 8
Western Connecticut WCSU 3 1 7 2 13

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | | Nick Landi, Sports Information Assistant

Men’s Lacrosse’s Season Ends with Loss to WestConn in LEC Semifinals

DANBURY, Conn. – The 2023 season for the No. 4 seed Keene State College men's lacrosse team came to an end Thursday with a 13-8 loss to No. 1 Western Connecticut State University in the Little East Conference Men's Lacrosse Tournament Semifinals at the Westside Athletic Complex.
 
Records
  • Keene State: 9-7
  • Western Connecticut State: 14-4
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In a rematch of the close 18-17 game between these two teams just nine days prior on April 25, sophomore attacker Julian Duque made sure the Wolves got off to a quick start by scoring the first two goals of the contest. Junior midfielder Colby Quiet responded for the Owls by scoring at 2:32 to bring KSC within one. WestConn would soon get another goal from senior midfielder Trey Aronow to go up 3-1 at the end of the first quarter.
 
Western Connecticut State then added a goal from senior midfielder Stephen Cicchetti to extend its lead to 4-2 at 11:09 in the second. Keene State then began to make a comeback. After fifth year defender Haeden Finerty caused a turnover on the other end of the field, sophomore midfielder Jeff Wiedenfeld sent the ball near the crease for junior attacker Andrew Miller. Miller fired in his first goal of the night to make it 4-2 WestConn at 5:31. Just over a minute later at 4:07, senior midfielder Max Thurston got the Owls back within one with a goal. KSC went into halftime trailing 4-3.
 
The second half featured more scoring from both sides. WestConn got the first two goals of the third quarter from sophomore attacker Matt Sweeney and Cicchetti. In response, the Owls scored the next three goals to tie the game at six. The tallies came from Thurston, senior attacker Cooper Cioffi and senior midfielder Nathan Sickles. After that, the Wolves took control of the game and never looked back by scoring seven unanswered goals to go up 13-6 in the fourth quarter. Duque scored three goals during that run for the Wolves, while Sweeney added two goals and an assist. Keene State tried to make a comeback as Quiet and Miller each scored with the Owls up a man to bring it to 13-8 with 39 seconds remaining in regulation. But the Owls ran out of time in the game, and therefore, its season.
 
Inside the Crease
  • Miller's two goals helped him finish with the team lead in that category for the season with 37. Cioffi's one goal puts him in second with 36.
  • Quiet had five ground balls in the game, the second-most on the team. The school's all-time leader in ground balls with 250 ends the season with a team-high 92, the seventh most in a season in program history. Quiet nearly matched his career high of 95 in 2022, which is the fifth most in a season in KSC history.
  • Junior goalkeeper Charlie Giuliotti made nine saves in the loss. With a career-high 165 saves this season, Giuliotti climbed up to ninth in the program's all-time rankings for saves with 217 in his career. His nine wins also brought him up to seventh most in program history with 10 in his career. Only seven goalkeepers have won at least 10 games in their career at Keene State College.
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