Michigan
2-2
Yale
1-1
U-M Drops Back-and-Forth Affair at No. 11 Yale
2/24/2018 3:17:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse
» The contest featured five leads changes, with U-M leading by as many as three goals (9-6) early in the third quarter.
» Freshman Kevin Mack tied the school record for assists in a game with four. He assisted on two Brent Noseworthy goals, as well as markers from Decker Curran and Rocco Sutherland.
» Junior Brent Noseworthy marked the fastest hat trick in team history, scoring three times in the first 22 minutes of action. He finished the day with four goals and also took 12 faceoffs.
Site: New Haven, Conn. (Reese Stadium)
Score: #11 Yale 15, Michigan 11
Records: U-M (3-1), Yale (0-2)
Next U-M Event: Sat., March 3 -- vs. Siena (U-M Lacrosse Stadium), Noon
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The University of Michigan men's lacrosse team dropped a hard-fought matchup against the No. 11 Yale Bulldogs by a 15-11 score on Saturday (Feb. 24) at Yale's Reese Stadium. The contest saw U-M lead by as many as three goals and featured five lead changes to go along with a school-record-tying four assists for freshman Kevin Mack.
Michigan (2-2) fell behind 1-0 less than a minute into the contest, but a score from junior Brent Noseworthy on a feed from freshman Kevin Mack on the wing evened the score at 1-1.
With the score knotted at 2-2 with 7:45 to go in the opening quarter, Yale's (1-1) Ben Reeves scored a pair of goals with less than a minute to go in the stanza to give the Bulldogs a 4-2 lead heading into the second.
Following another Yale goal just over a minute into the second quarter, the Wolverines went on a 4-0 run with a pair of goals from Noseworthy and one apiece from Mack and fellow freshman Alex Buckanavage to take a 6-5 lead with 7:03 to go in the second quarter.
Buckanavage tacked on another nearly five minutes later. Senior PJ Bogle followed with a truck stick goal with 33 seconds left to give the Wolverines an 8-6 lead heading into the half.
The pair for Noseworthy in the quarter gave him a first-half hat trick, and the fastest hat trick in term history (22 minutes).
Coming out of the half, the Wolverines added to their lead with a score from Curran on a helper from Mack just over two minutes into the half to extend the lead to 9-6, which turned out to be U-M's largest lead on the afternoon.
The Bulldogs closed the gap with a pair back-to-back scores before Mack put an end to the run at the seven-minute mark with his fourth point of the day. U-M held the 10-8 lead before Yale's Jackson Morrill scored twice within 1:17 seconds to tie the game for the fifth time at 10-10. Will Carbrea added another Bulldog goal with seconds to go in the third as Yale took an 11-10 lead heading into the fourth quarter.
The one-goal deficit proved to be the closest U-M would get the rest of the way, the Bulldogs outdistanced the Wolverines with three straight scores to extend the lead to 14-10 with 3:35 to go.
Noseworthy added U-M's final goal of the day with 2:30 to go on a feed from Mack to run the tally to 14-11, but time ran out on the fourth quarter comeback with Yale adding a late goal to bring the final count to 15-11.
Tweet of the Game
Big ups to Kevin Mack for tying the school record for assists in a contest with 4.
— Michigan Lacrosse (@UMichLacrosse) February 24, 2018
He equals the mark previously achieved by Ian King (2/4/17) and @kylejackson05 (3/6/13).#EarnIt? | #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/dYAqvXpoIM
Following a two-game road swing, the Wolverines return home to host the Siena Saints on Saturday (March 3) at noon from U-M Lacrosse Stadium.
