CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A second-quarter surge by MIT allowed the Engineers to hold off the Roger Williams University Men's Lacrosse team 17-12 Wednesday evening in non-conference action.
 
Hawk Highlights
Noah Ravas: 2 goals, 2 assists, 2 ground balls
Ryan Phillips: 2 goals, 2 assists, 1 ground ball
Jared Grier: 2 goals, 1 assist, 3 ground balls
Hunter Goodrow: 1 ground ball, 2 caused turnovers
Duncan Gillis: L, 8 saves, 12 goals allowed, 1 ground ball, 30:00 minutes in goal
 
For The Opponents
Ryan Gebhardt: 9 goals, 3 assists, 5 ground balls
Matthew Sardis: 25 face-offs won, 21 ground balls
Gavin Vandenberg: 1 goal, 3 assists, 1 ground ball, 2 caused turnovers
Lukas Drexler-Bruce: W, 11 saves, 12 goals allowed, 60:00 minutes in goal
 
How It Happened
Roger Williams got off to a good start in the game, scoring the first three goals of the game. Matt Halpin (Hanover, Mass.) tallied a goal less than a minute in, followed by scores from Ryan Vendetti (Farmington, Conn.) and Jack Kester (Londonderry, N.H.) over the following three minutes.
 
Ryan Gebhardt (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) answered for MIT with the first of his nine goals in the game. His score began a 3-0 run for the Engineers to pull within one. Bennett Stankovits (Rumson, N.J.) eventually tied the game at five for MIT before Gebhardt scored in the final seconds of the first quarter for a 6-5 lead.
 
MIT added a pair of goals in the first four minutes to extend the lead to three. Jared Grier (Quincy, Mass.) and Halpin helped bring the Hawks back within one with back-to-back goals. However, the Engineers ended the half with four unanswered goals, three of which from Gebhardt to go into halftime up 12-7.
 
Grier and Ryan Phillips (Hanover, Mass.) made it a 9-12 deficit with goals to open the third quarter. Yet that would be as close as RWU would come over the rest of the game. Despite holding MIT to only one goal in the third, the Engineers tallied four more scores in the final quarter to RWU's three. RWU was unable to mount the comeback as MIT picked up the win.
 
What's Next
Roger Williams (2-3): Wednesday, March 16 at Trinity (Conn.) @ 7:00pm
MIT (5-0): Saturday, March 12 at RPI @ 1:00pm