COLUMBUS, Ohio The Ohio State mens lacrosse team lost to No. 17/16 Marquette, 10-9, Sunday afternoon in a neutral site game that was part of the Midwest Classic Lacrosse Weekend in Louisville, Ky. The Buckeyes (4-2) will play their next two games in Columbus, hosting Hofstra at 1 p.m. Saturday and Denver at 1 p.m. March 14. Both games are scheduled to be played in Ohio Stadium. Ohio State led the Golden Eagles 6-5 at halftime and 9-5 at the end of the third quarter but Marquette (5-0) rallied for the win. Buckeye graduate student Christopher May won 18-of-21 faceoffs (.857) in the game and had 15 groundballs. Senior Jesse King had a team-high four points with a goal and three assists, while junior Carter Brown had a hat trick and junior Ryan Hunter scored twice. Junior Kacy Kapinos had two caused turnovers vs. Marquette. Ohio State led Marquette 4-1 after the first quarter. The teams traded early goals, with senior David Planning scoring off an assist from classmate Turner Evans at 11:58 and Marquettes Kyle Whitlow answering at 11:04. King put Ohio State ahead 2-1 at 9:16 off an assist from freshman Colin Chell. Brown then scored back-to-back man-up goals, both assisted by King, at 5:17 and 1:01 for a 4-1 Ohio State lead. Ohio State had 17 shots in the quarter, with Marquettes goalie making four saves, and the Golden Eagles had three shot attempts. After a goal from Hunter, assisted by King, at 13:17 of the second quarter for a 5-1 Ohio State lead, Marquette went on a three-goal run to make it a one-goal game (5-4). Conor Gately scored at 8:48 and Jordan Greenfield tallied at 6:45 and 2:51. May scored his first goal as a Buckeye at 2:43 to put Ohio State up 6-4, but a goal from Marquettes Liam Byrnes with 59 seconds left in the quarter after a MU timeout again made it a one-goal game (6-5). Ohio State outshot Marquette, 9-6, in the stanza and the MU goalie made five saves. The Buckeyes scored the only three goals of the third quarter to go ahead, 9-5. Planning set up Hunter at 13:02 and Brown scored unassisted at 7:41. Sophomore John Kelly nabbed his first goal of the season with 31 seconds left in the quarter. The teams combined for 11 shots in the quarter, with Ohio State ahead, 7-4. Marquette came from behind for the win in the fourth quarter with five goals. The Golden Eagles made it a one-goal game with tallies at 14:10, 13:34 and 9:21. At 1:44, Marquettes Kyle Whitlow tied the game at nine. Marquette won the next faceoff and called timeout. The Golden Eagles held the ball and with 11 seconds left in regulation, Kyran Clarke scored for Marquettes first lead of the game. A Buckeye shot with time winding down was saved to seal the win for the Golden Eagles. Shots were 9-5 in favor of Marquette in the quarter. Ohio State outshot Marquette, 38-22, in the game. Tom Carey had three saves for the Buckeyes and Marquettes Jimmy Danaher had 12 stops. The Buckeyes won 19-of-23 faceoffs on the day. May was 18-3 and sophomore Jake Withers was 1-1. May had 15 groundballs, one shy of the Ohio State record 16 set by Bob Myers in 1988. His 18 faceoff wins tie for the most won by a Buckeye in a single game since 2002, now set six times since that season. He has won 81-of-108 (.750) faceoffs this season and picked up 60 groundballs (10 per game). Ohio State had the edge in groundballs vs. Marquette, 31-14. Ohio State converted 2-of-5 man-up chances and Marquette was 0-for-1. King, with his fifth consecutive game with four or more points, extended his point streak to 42 games (84g, 61a, 145p in the stretch). He now has a team-best 15 goals and 25 points on the year. He is seventh in program history with 156 points and ninth with 64 assists. Brown had his eighth career three-goal game and his fourth multiple-point game of the season. He is second on the team in points (17) and assists (9). Hunter is second on the squad with nine goals and has three multiple-goal games on the year. Planning, who had a goal and an assist for two points, ranks third on the squad with 13 points (6g, 7a).