Cadets Fall to Marist on the Road

Tuesday, February 18

Poughkeepsie, NY

3 PM

Army West Point

3-1

Marist

2-1

ARMY

Marist

Cadets Fall to Marist on the Road

February 18, 2020 | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The No. 7/9 Army West Point men's lacrosse team suffered a 17-9 setback to Hudson Valley rival Marist on the road Tuesday afternoon.

The Red Foxes pulled away from the Black Knights thanks to an 8-0 scoring run.

Brendan Nichtern eclipsed the 100-career point milestone in today's game thanks to four assists. The sophomore is the youngest player to reach the milestone in the program's 103-year history.

Miles Silva kept the team fighting with five goals.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Red Foxes came out aggressive in the first quarter to give the Black Knights their first scoring deficit of the season.
Silva scored the first goal of the contest off an assist from Connor DeWitt to put the Cadets up 1-0.
Marist answered back with two consecutive goals though to take a 2-1 lead.
Nicholas Garofano netted his first of the year to knot things up a 2-2 before the Red Foxes and Silva for the Black Knights traded goals yet again.
The Red Foxes then scored two straight, but a scoop and score from Silva kept it a one-point game.
Marist tallied a goal to close out the quarter which sparked an 8-0 run through the third to go up 13-4 on Army.
Nichtern got things going for Army with 4:13 to go in the third with assists to Matt Manown and Silva, while Jacob Morin found the back of the net off a pass from DeWitt for a man-up score.
Two more Marist goals put the game at 15-7 with Army still trailing.
Nichtern assisted on back-to-back Army goals spaced 40 seconds apart by Silva and Sean O'Brien, but the Red Foxes sealed the game with two more scores to end things with a 17-9 advantage.

HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Silva posted a season-high five goals, while Nichtern finished the day with four assists.
Silva recorded a hat trick within the first 11-minutes of action today.
The senior has notched the eighth hat trick in his career.
Nichtern now totals 65 assists in his career and 102 points.
The sophomore is the youngest Cadet to join the 100-point club in Army's 103-year history.
His 102-career points rank him 31st all-time, while he improves to 13th in career assists with 65.
Thanks to his four helpers today, Nichtern passed Eric Waltz '93, Bob Miser '60 and Bob Bletchley '88 who each totaled 64 assists.
Manown and DeWitt recorded multi-point games today as well.
Marcus Hudgins, Liam Davenport and Bennett Taylor led the team with two caused turnovers apiece.
Hudgins had a career day with eight ground balls, while Tom Rigney added five.
Wyatt Schupler made 10 saves in net for Army.
Despite being outscored by Marist, Army held an advantage in shots (45-38), ground balls (38-36) and caused turnovers (9-7).
The Black Knights had a better clear percentage (92%-77%) as well as having fewer turnovers (16-19).