Alvernia (0-1) went into Aston, Delaware County to kick off the 2020 DIII Lacrosse season with a Non-Conference match up with Neumann College (1-0).
This was all Neumann as Drew Conlin (3g,3a) with just 1:26 played, pushed the door to the floodgates wide open.
Colin Blake (2g,1a), Chris Bellon (7g,1a), and Kyle Daly (1g) put it a 4-0 edge.
Alvernia fought back with an unassisted marker from Preston Greener (1g) to get the visitors within three goals.
Neumann took a breath and went right back to work with Blake and Conlin closing the opening quarter with a 6-1 Neumann lead.
Conlin, Brett McLaughlin (1g,1) and a pair from Bellon out the run to six goals that was stopped on a man-up goal from Zach Bowman (1g) that just fired up Neumann and Ryan NcNichol (2g,1a), Conlon and John Giovinazzo (1g) and the half-closed with Neumann holding all the cards, 13-2.
Rich Marshall (3g,3a) was “Mr. Everywhere” for the home team and collected four points in the third.
Ryan McNichol tallied to make it a 12 goal advantage before Sam St.Croix (2g) put it back to 11.
With the way this was going, you had to expect another run, and you would not have been disappointed.
Bellon, Will Petraglia (1g), (1g), Bellon and a pair from Marshall ended 45 minutes and a 19-3 game.
Marshall’s second came with just 00:01 showing on the clock.
It took an entire minute for Bellon to strike again. Things simmered until 6:16 when who else? Bellon struck again.
Marshall and Vincent Corbino (1g) tallied and St. Croix on the second man-advantage goal for Alvernia closed the book on the scoring.
Dis and Dat: Neumann had ten players record at least one point.
As you might expect, the contest got a bit chippy and 7 Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalties were whistled.
Brendan Risley stopped 10 shots in the Neumann nets.
Kevin has followed and promoted the game of lacrosse since May 19, 1974.
The same day the Philadelphia Flyers won the Cup, the Philadelphia Wings were introduced to Neibauer and Philadelphia.
Kevin has covered many sports, including baseball, football, basketball, and.. lacrosse. A former licensed football referee and baseball umpire, Kevin brings a unique insight to his game coverage.
A published writer in JustHockey Magazine, Kevin covered the American Hockey League as well as a monthly story on a pugilist where Kevin used the pen name, The Rink Rat. Neibauer turned his attentions to lacrosse for a few years and does his part, whether podcasting or writing to grow the game. Kevin branched out to his roots and currently provides insight for all Philadelphia teams for Edge of Philly as well as his full-time duties with LaxPhilly.
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