YORK, PA - The York College men's lacrosse team came posted their school-record fourth straight win with a 10-8 victory over the College of Wooster on a windy and cold Sunday afternoon. The Spartans rode three goals by Josh Papsan (Baltimore, MD/ North County) and converted four-of-five second-half extra-man advantages to raise its record to 5-2. The College of Wooster has lost two games in two days to fall to 3-2.

After Papsan scored an unassisted goal less than two-and-a-half minutes into the game, Wooster's Ben Abbott and Mark Weschler scored first period unassisted goals to give the Fighting Scots a 2-1 lead after 15 minutes played. Papsan converted a Paul Rudell (Lusby, MD/ Patuxent) pass 41 seconds into the second quarter to tie the game. Weschler scored the only other goal of the quarter with 6:28 remaining in the half on an assist from Abbott to preserve the Wooster one-goal lead at half.

The Spartans went down two goals on Hisham Hissan's man-up goal assisted by Austin Taylor at 9:13 of the third quarter, just nine seconds into the advantage created by a slashing penalty on Spartan defenseman Dan Holoubek (Severna Park, MD/ St. Mary's). York answered less than a minute later on a good individual effort by junior Brendan Hopkins (Monrovia, MD/ Urbana) at 8:19. That goal was followed by Mike Klingerman (Chadds ford, PA/ Ridley) as he converted a Chris Chappelle (Stevensville, MD/ Chesapeake) pass to tie the game at four with 7:23 to play in the third.

Cole Simmons scored for the Scots at 5:46 on an unassisted goal that put Wooster back ahead before Chappelle scored off an assist from Papsan for the Spartans' first man-up goal of the game tying the game at 4:21 of the third. The teams traded goals again before the end of the stanza. Chris Curran's unassisted marker for the Scots at 3:24 was matched by York's second man-up goal Papsan from Hopkins with 1:35 left in the quarter.

The fourth quarter began as the third ended. Papsan returned the favor to Hopkins, assisting on his man-up goal 12 seconds into the fourth. Rudell took advantage of a two-man-up situation and a great feed from Chappelle to put York up 8-6 with 12:58 remaining.

Kyle Henninger (Millers, MD/ Hereford) scored the eventual game-winning goal putting the Spartans up 9-6 on Chapelle's second assist of the day with 10:41 to play. It was Henninger's third goal of the year and his first game winner, becoming the fifth Spartan in five wins to tally the deciding marker. Wooster's Hissan and Abbott sandwiched their second goals of the game around York's leading goal scorer Ben Libertini's (Catonsville, MD/ Catonsville) 17th goal of the year to provide the final 10-8 margin.

Matt Keeler (Morton, PA/ Ridley) made six saves in going the distance to pick up his fifth win of the year, tying the school-record set by Matt Hansen last season for goalie wins in a season. Keeler picked up nine ground balls and was a factor knocking down passes as well as stopping shots. Wooster goalie Matt Biester made eight saves while playing all 60 minutes in the loss and picked up five ground balls for the Scots.

York was lead offensively by five points by Papsan (3 g - 2 a), four points for Hopkins (2 g - 2 a) and three points from Chapelle (1 g - 2 a). Papsan was 9-of-15 on face offs and picked up a team-leading 12 ground balls. Abbott, Weschler and Hassan scored two goals a piece for the Scots who were lead in ground balls by defender Sam Carmony's seven.

The Spartans out-shot the visitors 36-32 for the game and 23-17 in the decisive second half. York controlled 27 second-half ground balls to 21 for Wooster and held a 49-40 edge for the game. The Spartans won 13-of-21 face offs and converted 22-of-23 clear attempts. York finished 4-of-9 on extra-man opportunities while Wooster was 2-of-8.

York returns to action Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. in a game with Washington & Jefferson University that has been moved to St. Paul's High School in Baltimore, MD. Directions will be posted on the YCP Athletics web site.

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2006-03-19