QUEENS, N.Y. (Feb. 21, 2009) – The Red Storm men's lacrosse team jumps off to its best start since 1985, with a decisive 15-8 win over the Quinnipiac Bobcats, Saturday afternoon on DaSilva Memorial Field. Senior starting attackman Drew Schanen had a career-day on the turf, tallying five points on four goals and one assist. Freshman attackman Harry Kutner also marked a career-milestone in his short time on the turf for St. John's with four assists.

With the win, St. John's improves to 2-0 on the season, all in non-conference action. Quinnipiac falls to 1-1 overall. The 15-8 victory gives St. John's a one-game edge over Quinnipiac in the all-time series record (2-1). The seven-goal margin of victory is the largest between the teams as both previous games were decided by one goal.

The Red Storm established themselves early scoring seven goals to Quinnipiac's one halfway through the second period. At the half, St. John's was up 9-3, the most goals the Red Storm has scored in two seasons.

Rookie Matt Hurst put the Red Storm on the board first off a pass from senior Tom Manes at 10:02. Senior Malcolm Miles made it 2-0 as he scored unassisted with 6:47 left in the first period. Twelve seconds later, Schanen netted his first goal of the game, unassisted, to give St. John's a three-goal lead.

Garett Kerr scored man-up to put an end to St. John's three-goal scoring run at 5:18. But St. John's answered back with four-straight goals led off by freshman Carl Iacona. Iacona scored unassisted after one of St. John's 17 successful clears with 4:37 left in the opening period. Miles followed and made his second goal of the contest with 3:35 on the game clock.

Sophomore Terence Leach opened the second stanza with two goals of his own to give St. John's a 7-1 lead with 11:05 left in the half. One minute into the new period, Leach scored his first of the day and second of the season off a quick pass from Kutner who was set up behind the net. Cutting through traffic, Leach netted his second-straight off a one-time pass from Schanen.

Quinnipiac scored twice more in the half before Schanen capitalized on a Bobcat slashing penalty to score man-up on goalie Kevin Benzing. Junior Garrett Mitchell gave the Red Storm a six-goal lead as he sunk a bounce shot off a spin move through traffic with just over a minute and a half remaining. His shot went off the cross bar and into the net past Benzing. St. John's went into the break up 9-3.

In the third period, Schanen opened it up for St. John's with his hat trick goal of the contest off another assist by Kutner. Senior long stick middie Dom DeNapoli caused a Quinnipiac turnover and picked up the ground ball to pass off to Kutner who was once again ready behind the goal. Kutner dished it to Schanen who ran through the Quinnipiac defense and scored over the shoulder, giving the Red Storm a 10-3 advantage at 13:28. Schanen netted his fourth five minutes later unassisted at 8:06.

Once again Quinnipiac made an attempt at a come back with back-to-back goals from Kerr and Jack Oppenheimer. The Red Storm went into the final period up 11-5.

St. John's and Quinnipiac traded goals in the fourth stanza as Manes and senior midfielder Jamal Jones scored for the Red Storm and Alex DeAlmeida and Oppenheimer netted two for Quinnipiac. Oppenheimer scored one more halfway with 7:35 left to play to make the score 13-8 as the Bobcats scored their final goal of the day.

Manes and Jones finalized the win with another goal each in the waning minutes of the contest. Jones' final goal was scored off a straight one-time pass from fellow senior Trevor Michaelsen in front of the pipes.

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