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Men's Lacrosse
Perseverance is the key. The Holy Cross men’s lacrosse
team is winless in its first eight games but has shown great
improvement when compared to last season and even early in
this year. Billy Klotz ’06 (Derry, N.H.), the
Patriot League Rookie of the Week on March 24, has registered
13 goals in eight games, including two hat tricks. Mike
McKee ’05 (Sloatsburg, N.Y.) has 17 assists in addition
to one goal and Mark Tarnuzzer ’03 (West Hartford,
Conn.) has eight goals and five assists. Shaun McGowan ’03 (Garden
City, N.Y.) and Paul Washington ’03 (Port Jefferson
Station, N.Y.) have each posted five goals to help contribute
to the scoring effort.
Brian Hodgdon ’04 (Pittstown, N.J.) has spent
most of the time between the pipes for Holy Cross. He has
a 15.34 GAA and .502 save percentage. Five of the team’s
first seven opponents were ranked nationally at the time
of their games. Holy Cross kicked off the year with a 14-3
loss to #22 Fairfield University, then dropped a 15-4 decision
to 25th-ranked Hobart, a game in which Hodgdon made 24 saves.
Holy Cross scored the first two goals against 20th-ranked
Army on March 11, but the Black Knights then rattled off
six unanswered goals en route to the 10-3 win. In the next
game, Hartford scored seven goals in the second quarter to
erase a 3-2 deficit and defeat the Crusaders, 15-9, at the
Hart Center. Klotz had two goals in the team’s 18-5
loss to Harvard and then registered a hat trick in a 13-4
loss to 19th-ranked Bucknell on March 22 in Lewisburg.
The Crusaders scored just three goals in the 22-3 loss to
18th-ranked Yale, then suffered a tough 16-8 decision to
Lehigh on March 29, despite four goals from Tarnuzzer. Defensively,
the team is led by Marty Gilbert ’03 (Laguna
Hills, Calif.), the Second Team All-Patriot League recipient
a season ago, who has collected 28 groundballs. Edmond
Yip ’05 (Providence, R.I.) and Hodgdon round out
that list with 16 groundballs each while Rudy Anderson ’06 (Coral
Springs, Fla.) has been successful on 56 of 144 face-off
attempts.
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