St. John's University Athletics
St. John's University
No. 17/17 Georgetown
St. John’s Hosts No. 17/17 Georgetown on Senior Day
4/18/2025 11:44:00 AM | Men's Lacrosse
The Johnnies will honor 18 graduating seniors prior to facing the Hoyas
QUEENS, N.Y. – The St. John's lacrosse team returns to Queens this weekend for Senior Day when it hosts No. 17/17 Georgetown on Saturday at Cox Family Field at Belson Stadium. The senior day festivities are set to begin at 10:50 a.m., while faceoff between the Red Storm and Hoyas is set for noon.
The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with Ralph Bednarczyk and Kevin Connelly on the call. Live stats will be available on RedStormSports.com.
The Johnnies (4-9, 0-3 BIG EAST) won their final two non-conference games, but have dropped the first three BIG EAST contests of the season, most recently falling on the road to RV/RV Villanova last Saturday, 10-7. After the Wildcats jumped out to a 6-1 second-quarter lead, the Red Storm rallied to get within one, 7-6, in the fourth quarter but Villanova closed the game on a 3-1 run.
Netminder Patrick Scarborough tied his career-best with 18 saves over the weekend, earning him a spot on the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll for the first time in his career. The graduate student has double-digit saves in nine straight games and leads the conference with 13.5 stops per contest.
Scarborough's save percentage has reached 50 percent in seven of his 11 starts this season and he has five performances with at least 15 stops.
Brian Kelly continued to produce, recording his fifth six-point game of the season on Saturday. The Red Hook, N.Y., native poured in five scores for the third time in his career and added an assist, giving him 114 goals and 191 points for his career, both third most in program history.
Kelly sits atop the BIG EAST leaderboards with 4.2 points per game while his 2.5 goals per contest is second in the conference. The second-year captain has set career-highs this season with 55 points, 33 goals, and 22 helpers, and is on a team-best 16-game point streak.
Alongside Kelly, Arian Nowak has also had a productive season, recording multiple points in eight of the team's last nine games. After scoring a goal against Villanova, the redshirt sophomore has at least one point in all 13 of the Red Storm's games this season and is second on the team with 37 points and 17 assists.
The duo, combined with freshman Ryan Ormond's 22 scores and four assists, has accounted for 118 of the 229 points the team has collected and 75 of the 142 goals the team has scored.
Three freshmen have combined for 68 points this season through 12 games. Ormond has 26 points and is ninth in the BIG EAST with 2.0 goals per game. Jayson Cardenas has 21 points following his one-score, two-assist performance against Villanova, and Mitch Campbell is up to 21 points in his first season in Queens.
On the defensive end, sophomore LSM Dylan Lee and freshman defenseman Quinn Falasca are both top five in the BIG EAST in caused turnovers per game.
Lee became the first player in Red Storm history to be named BIG EAST Specialist of the Week following his three caused turnovers and four groundballs against Hobart on March 22, while Falasca has a team-best 21 on the season. He is also second on the team with 33 groundballs.
The Red Storm's penalty-kill has continued to be a strong point, owning the nation's 10th-best man-down unit that only allows goals on 24.2 percent of such situations. After holding Villanova to 0-for-4 on the man-up over the weekend, opponents have converted just eight of 36 opportunities.
Saturday will be the 25th all-time meeting between the Johnnies and Hoyas and just the second matchup between the two programs on Cox Family Field at Belson Stadium.
Georgetown fell last Saturday to Denver, 7-3, at home for its first conference defeat of the season. The Hoyas come to Queens, 7-4 overall and 2-1 in BIG EAST play, having won five of their last seven.
The Hoyas were held to just one goal in the opening half against the Pioneers and were unable to recover, despite having more shots, groundballs, caused turnovers and faceoff wins.
Aidan Carroll had two of Georgetown's three scores, bringing his team-high total to 44 points and 27 goals. Fulton Bayman is second on the team with 40 points and leads the Hoyas with 21 helpers. Six players have hit the 10-point mark, while 20 have recorded at least one point this season.
The Hoyas' defense has been superb this season, holding opponents to a BIG EAST best 9.2 goals per game while forcing 8.9 turnovers each contest, second best in the conference. The defending BIG EAST champions also sit atop the conference with 32.3 ground balls each game.
Robert Plath has anchored the Hoyas' back line, causing 2.00 turnovers per game, ninth best in the nation, while netminder Anderson Moore's 9.1 goals-against average is 17th best in Division I lacrosse.
After Saturday's rivalry showdown in Queens, the Red Storm will hit the road next weekend to wrap up its regular season against Providence on Friday. Faceoff from Chapey Field at Anderson Stadium is set for 7 p.m.
