BRISTOL, R.I. – In the 26^th all-time battle for the Quahog Cup, the Roger Williams University Men's Lacrosse team fell to Salve Regina University, 16-10 at Gaudet Field on Wednesday night. Jared Grier (Quincy, Mass.) netted a hat-trick for his third consecutive three-plus goal showing for the Hawks in the loss.
 
With the defeat, RWU falls to 3-7 on the season while splitting their two Commonwealth Coast Conference contests. Meanwhile, Salve Regina improves to 4-4 and are 2-0 in conference play.  
 
In a game that saw the Hawks take more shots, 40-32, and more shots on goal, 29-22, it was the goaltending that made the difference. Ryan Chambers (Wakefield, Mass.) made a career-high 19 saves to get the win and improve to 3-4 in net this season. Max Kimmel (Milford, Conn.) got the start for RWU allowing 16 goals against six saves to take the loss and drop to 1-3.
 
Hawk Highlights
Jared Grier: 3 goals
Ryan Phillips: 2 goals
Matt Halpin: 1 goal, 1 assist
Brian Cumming: 1 goal, 3 ground balls
 
Max Kimmel: 6 saves, 16 goals allowed, 60:00 minutes in goal
 
For The Opponents
Liam Cooney: 5 goals, 1 assist
Pat Leary: 4 goals, 1 assist, 1 ground ball
Stephen McAllister: 4 goals
Justin Haverly: 18 face-offs won, 8 ground balls, 1 assist
 
Ryan Chambers: 19 saves, 10 goals allowed, 60:00 minutes in goal
 
How It Happened
It was the Stephen McAllister (Floral Park, N.Y.) show early on in this one for Salve Regina as he opened the scoring just over two and a half minutes in for the hosts. Jared Grier (Quincy, Mass.) evened things while the players on the field were uneven, netting a man-up goal about 90 seconds later but McAllister would score two of the Seahawks next three goals to record a hat-trick in the first quarter alone. Noah Ravas (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) mixed in a goal for the Hawks, but they trailed 4-2 after one.
 
Liam Cooney (Portsmouth, R.I.) got in on the fun for the hosts scoring the first of his five goals to open the scoring in the second frame. A Brendan Laundry (Swampscott, Mass.) goal got the lead to four, but the guests would take momentum into the locker room by scoring twice within the final two minutes courtesy of Ryan Phillips (Hanover, Mass.) and Matt Halpin (Hanover, Mass.).
 
SRU would bury Roger Williams out of the half, however as Pat Leary (Wakefield, Mass.) got things going less than a minute in to spark a 6-1 stretch to open the lead up to 12-5. During that span, both Leary and Cooney found the back of the net twice and while Phillips ended the run, McAllister concluded the quarter with a score to make the score 13-6.
 
After another score by Leary and two more from Cooney got the host's advantage to double-digits, the Hawks offense did finally find some traction scoring the final four goals of the contest, but it was too little, too late.
 
What's Next
Roger Williams (3-7): Saturday, April 2 vs. Curry @ 11:00am
Salve Regina (4-4): Tuesday, April 5 vs. Nichols @ 4:30pm