ITHACA, N.Y. -- The seventh-ranked men's lacrosse team recorded a 16-4 victory over Alfred Saturday afternoon to improve to 10-2 on the season, 3-0 in Empire 8 play. Ithaca extended its conference record to 19 consecutive Empire 8 wins.

Sophomore Mike Cintineo (Honeoye Falls-Lima/Honeoye Falls) lead the team with a career-high seven points, with a career-high five goals and two assists, while junior Matt Nelligan (Pingree School/Rowley, Mass.) registered three goals and two assists. Sophomore Matt Ruhnke (Brien McMahon/Norwalk, Conn.) had a career-high two assists.

Ithaca took the lead for good on Cintineo's 18th goal of the season, 4:09 into the game, and junior Brandon Rose (Rush-Henrietta/Rochester) assisted on the goal. Alfred senior Jeff Andrews (Horseheads/Horseheads) goal at 8:31 of the first cut Ithaca's lead to 3-2. The Bombers then went on a 9-0 run over the next 12:52 to put the game out of reach.

Ithaca won 22 of 23 faceoffs and collected a season-high 64 ground balls. The Bombers also forced a season-high 28 turnovers and registered a season-high 17 caused turnovers.

Junior Tim Gustus (Rivers School/Wayland, Mass.) tallied his first goal of the season at 10:44 of the fourth quarter. Freshman Nick Neuman (West/Madison, Wis.) recorded his second goal of the season to cap the scoring with 1:24 left in the contest. Freshman Mike Lohan (Sanford H. Calhoun/Merrick) recorded his first collegiate point with an assist on sophomore Dwight Weld's (East Chapel Hill/Chapel Hill, N.C.) third goal of the season.

Senior Dennis Butler (Pleasantville/Pleasantville) made five saves in the win, and sophomore Ben Connery (Homer/Homer) made one save. Sophomore Collin Meadow (Downingtown East/Downingtown, Pa.) also appeared in goal for 5:22 without facing a shot on goal.

Senior Drew Foster (Pittsford/Pittsford-Sutherland) started in goal for Alfred, recording 15 saves in the loss. Freshman Mike Russo (Mattydale/Cicero-North Syracuse), junior Jeremy Florence (Unionville, Pa./Unionville) and senior Jarrett Moffitt (Elmira/Corning West) also recorded goals for the Saxons.

Ithaca travels to second-ranked Rochester Institute of Technology on Wednesday, April 11 for a 4:00 p.m. Empire 8 match-up.

SCORE BY PERIOD       1  2  3  4  Tot
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Alfred..............  2  1  0  1 -  4
Ithaca..............  9  4  0  3 - 16

Alfred SCORING:
GOALS: Jarrett Moffitt 1; Jeff Andrews 1; Mike Russo 1; Jeremy Florence 1.
ASSISTS: Andy Aylward 1; Ben Coburn 1; Liam Glover 1.

Ithaca SCORING:
GOALS: Mike CINTINEO 5; Matt NELLIGAN 3; Mike NOWAK 1; Logan BOBZIEN 1; Tim PFEFFER 1; Craig LEPIANE 1; Kevin BUSH 1; Tim GUSTUS 1; Nick NEUMAN 1; Dwight WELD 1.
ASSISTS: Mike CINTINEO 2; Matt NELLIGAN 2; Matthew RUHNKE 2; Logan BOBZIEN 1; Chris CARMAN 1; Mike LOHAN 1; Mike NOWAK 1; Tim PFEFFER 1; Brandon ROSE 1.

Alfred GROUND BALLS: Drew Foster 8; Eric Thibault 7; Andy Aylward 4; Jeff Andrews 2; Ben Cantor 2; Liam Glover 2; Mike McCarthy 2; James Powell 2; Scott Wunsch 2; Andrew Clymer 1; Ben Coburn 1; Jeremy Florence 1; Andy Haynes 1; Ed Leoni 1; Jarrett Moffitt 1; Mark Pincelli 1; Mike Russo 1.

Ithaca GROUND BALLS: Brandon ROSE 8; Matthew RUHNKE 8; Matt NELLIGAN 7; Mike NOWAK 6; Neth WIEDEMANN 5; Tim PFEFFER 3; Adam BERG 2; Logan BOBZIEN 2; Dennis BUTLER 2; Chris CARMAN 2; Tim GUSTUS 2; Matt HAMMES 2; Craig LEPIANE 2; Pete SCHICK 2; Dwight WELD 2; Kevin BUSH 1; Mike CINTINEO 1; Matt CUTTER 1; Mike GIUNTA 1; Nick NEUMAN 1; Kevin PIARULLI 1; Will RUMSEY 1; Jordan STAIR 1; Alex TEECE 1.

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