Southfield, Mich. – The #10 Lawrence Technological University men's lacrosse team routed the Taylor University Trojans 19-4 in a Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference game on Wednesday evening.
Grady Holmes scored nine times for the Blue Devils to tie the program's single-game goals mark set by current Blue Devils assistant coach
Tristan Burkhard on 3/8/17.
How It Happened:
- Wyatt Nedball started the scoring for LTU with his coast to coast goal two minutes into the contest
- Clayton Hauff found Grady Holmes for his eighth of the season at the 11:35 mark before Nick Soukup netted the first goal of his career one minute later
- Holmes scored the next two goals as LTU tacked on two more markers to stretch the margin to 7-0
- The Trojans scored with 48 seconds left in the first as they trailed 7-1 after 15 minutes
- Matthew Stedtefeld followed up an Eli Lozinski goal to make it 9-1 LTU
- After Taylor scored with seven seconds left in the half, Lozinski added his second tally right before the horn with two seconds remaining as LTU held an 11-2 break at the intermission
- Holmes netted the first two-goal of the third but Taylor responded with two of its own, still trailing by double digits at 14-4
- Jacob Cianci scored his first of the season, unassisted to put the Blue Devils ahead 15-4 heading to the fourth
- Another unassisted tally from Holmes at the 12:35 mark extended the LTU advantage to 12, 16-4 as he followed up with his eighth marker of the night 2:35 later off a dish from Maveric Muscat
- The combo teamed up just 13 seconds later at the 9:47 mark as Muscat recorded his third straight helper and fifth assist of the evening as LTU ran out the rest of the clock to win by a final of 19-4
Inside the Numbers:
- Holmes was efficient with his nine goals as he took just 12 shots
- Muscat was second on the team in points with five
- Nedbal led LTU with four groundballs while Chase Alveron caused three turnovers
- Trevor Maitland was 4-of-5 on faceoffs in the second half
- Goalkeeper Brent Matthews made 11 saves in the cage
Lawrence Tech remains home on Saturday, April 2
nd when it hosts WHAC foe Cleary at 2 pm at Blue Devils Stadium.
