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Reporting A Score? | | | | | Archives | | |
| | | |  |  | | Virginia | 12 | | Denver | 3 | | | | Scoring: | Scoring: | Chris Rotelli
John Christmas
Aj Shannon
Matt Ward
Foster Gilbert
Joe Yevoli
Billy Glading
Kyle Dixon
| (3, 1)
(2, 2)
(4, 0)
(1, 2)
(0, 2)
(0, 2)
(2, 0)
(0, 1)
| Adam Swain
Adam Miller
Blake Evans
| (1, 0)
(1, 0)
(1, 0)
| | | | Saves: | Saves: | Tillman Johnson
Ryan Thompson
| 7 (0.700)
1 (1.000)
| Jeff Nunziato
| 21 (0.636)
| | | | Current Record : (11-2) | Current Record : (8-5) | | | | Team Page For 2003 | Team Page For 2003 | | | | | | The Game Story: | CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-Leading 3-2 at halftime, the Virginia men's
lacrosse team scored nine unanswered goals during the second half to
post a 12-3 victory in its regular season finale over visiting Denver
University at Klöckner Stadium. Senior midfielder A.J. Shannon paced
the offense with a game-high four goals, while fellow senior
midfielders' Chris Rotelli and Billy Glading contributed a hat-trick
and two goals respectively. The decision gives the Cavaliers (11-2,
2-1 ACC) their sixth straight win as the squad heads into NCAA
tourney action, while the Pioneers fall to 8-5 overall.
"I don't know if we lacked intensity [in the first half],"
said Shannon. "We made a few mental errors, but goalie (Jeff
Nunziato) made some huge saves. He stopped me a couple times when I
thought I had one, and he stopped a bunch of other guys. The goalie
was really hot. We just came out in the third quarter and sunk a
couple of quick [goals] on him and he kind of lost his rhythm. The
defense fell apart a little bit and we took advantage of it by
capitalizing on the opportunities we had."
The only score of the first quarter came five minutes into
the game when Glading found the back of the net on an assist by
attackman Joe Yevoli.
During the second quarter, Denver scored back-to-back goals
on its first two shots of the period. At the 10:26 mark, midfielder
Blake Evans scored an unassisted goal that was followed a minute
later by another unassisted score, courtesy of freshman midfielder
Adam Swain. With the score 2-1 in favor of the Pioneers, both teams
exchanged possessions for the remainder of the half until Shannon
knotted the score on assist by Rotelli with two minutes remaining. A
minute later, Virginia took the lead for good on an acrobatic, diving
shot by attackman John Christmas that bounced past Nunziato, who
finished with 21 saves.
In the third quarter, the Cavaliers continued where they left
off by scoring seven unanswered goals. Christmas commenced the second
half scoring spurt by putting a crease feed from midfielder Kyle
Dixon into the net 30 seconds into the period. With the score 4-2,
Shannon followed with back-to-back goals. At the 4:05 mark, attackman
Matt Ward added to the lead on an assist from fellow freshman Foster
Gilbert. Rotelli extended the lead by scoring the next three goals
during the last three minutes of the third quarter to push Virginia's
lead to 10-2.
After Shannon scored his fourth goal and Glading contributed
his second to increase the Cavaliers' margin to 12-2, Denver scored
the last goal of the game on freshman attackman Adam Miller's
unassisted goal at the 7:37 mark.
Virginia now awaits a bid to the NCAA tournament which begins
May 10th, while Denver hosts Air Force in its season-finale on May
5th.
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