St. John’s Drops Easter Weekend Contest at Marquette

Saturday, April 8

Milwaukee, Wisc. (Valley Fields)

12 p.m.

St. John's University

0-11, 0-2BIG EAST

Marquette

6-4, 1-1BIG EAST

St. John's

Marquette

St. John’s Drops Easter Weekend Contest at Marquette

4/8/2023 3:50:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

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Season-high nine different players recorded a goal in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE (April 8, 2023)- The St. John's men's lacrosse team dropped its Easter Weekend contest at Marquette on Saturday, 20-10.

The Red Storm jumped out an early lead but the Golden Eagles charged back and took the lead that it never relinquished inside the bubble at Valley Fields.

A week after tallying 20 saves a week ago and the most by a St. John's goaltender in 16 years, Kyle Munson followed it up racking up 14 stops. Over his last four starts, the senior netminder is averaging 15.8 stops over his last four starts.

Brian Kelly was the lone Johnnie to record multiple goals finishing with a pair. The sophomore has now logged 20 goals on the year.

Eight other players- Trevor Batastini, Ricardo Carreras, Sean Duffy, Corey Hall, Connor Kalmus, Billy Mahecha, Caiden Vlasimsky and Kyle Wasilewski all tallied one goal apiece. Nine different scorers marked the highest total for the Red Storm this season.

For Batastini and Wasilewski the goals marked the first of their careers, while Carreras Mahecha and Hall each added their first marker of the 2023 season.

Bobby Seel, in his first career start, recorded a team-high two assists marking his third-consecutive multi-point game. Caleb Zuhoski, Jackson Klein and Kalmus all tallied a single helper.

The Red Storm jumped out to a 2-0 advantage early in the first quarter. As Zuhoski was circling behind the cage, he found Kalmus who delivered an underhand rip that soared into the back-of-the-net. Harry Noel and Seel forced a turnover at the midfield line and as Seel scooped the groundball he was off to the races. The midfielder bounced a pass to Brian Kelly who rifled one in to make it 2-0. The Golden Eagles closed the opening period with a pair of tallies to even the score, 2-2.

Marquette controlled the second quarter outscoring the Red Storm, 5-0, over that stanza to take a 7-2 lead into the break.

In the third quarter, the Golden Eagles tacked one two more before Vlasimsky buried one off a dish from Seel. Late in the frame, a transition score from Wasilewski gave the junior his first-career goal.

In the final quarter facing a sizeable deficit, the Johnnies showed fight offensively tallying six goals in the fourth. After the home side's advantage ballooned to as many as 12, 16-4, the Red Storm rang off four-straight goals to trail by eight, 16-8. In the closing minutes, Hall launched one in off of a feed from Kalmus. Mahecha closed out the Red Storm scoring on a man-down goal for his first of the year.

St. John's will be back in action for the first-ever lacrosse games at Belson Stadium when it hosts No. 19/17 Denver on Saturday. To purchase tickets, click here.