Newark, Delaware - Junior Kyle Hollingsworth (Darien, CT) scored two goals and handed out four assists, while freshman Andrew Feinberg (Owing Mille, MD) and junior Reade Seligmann (Essex Falls, NJ) added two goals each, to lead the Brown men's lacrosse team to its fifth consecutive victory, a 9-6 win over 14th-ranked Delaware at Rullo Stadium.

Hollingsworth gave the Bears an early 1-0 lead before the Blue Hens tied the game, 1-1, with 4:59 left in the quarter. Feinberg's goal with 2:32 left in the quarter gave Brown the lead for good, 2-1, and ignited a 6-0 Brown run that extended into the fourth quarter.

The Bears stretched their lead to 4-1 at the half on Hollingsworth's second goal, assisted by junior Jack Walsh (Chevy Chase, MD), and sophomore Nick Melvin's (North Portsmouth, VA) first career goal, converting a Hollingsworth pass, with 8:29 remaining in the half.

Goals by sophomore Thomas Muldoon (Oakton, VA), on a Hollingsworth assist, and Seligmann from Muldoon, helped the Bears build a 6-1 advantage after three quarters.

Bears' head coach Lars Tiffany wanted to get the Bears off to a quick start to open the fourth quarter and Feinberg answered the call by scoring his second goal of the game from a Hollingsworth pass, to lift the Bears a 7-1 lead with 14:10 left in the game.

Delaware countered with two quick goals to make a late run at the Bears, but Seligmann scored his second goal with 5:02 left in the game to put the Bears up, 8-3. After a Delaware goal, Walsh gave the Bears a 9-4 lead with his first goal of the game with just 1:58 left on the clock. Three late scores by the Blue Hens accounted for the final score.

After surrendering a first quarter goal, Bears' junior goalie Jordan Burke (Potomac, MD) held Delaware scoreless into the fourth quarter, keeping the Blue Hens scoreless for 39 minutes and 17 seconds. Although Delaware out-shot the Bears by a 51-31 margin, the difference in the game was Burke's 16 saves.

Martin Cahill led the Blue Hens with three goals and an assist.

Brown will be back in action on Friday, April 4, opening its Ivy League season against Yale in New Haven. Game time is 8:00 p.m.

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NEWARK, DE -- Brown scored four of its first seven goals on extra-man opportunities and goalkeeper Jordan Burke turned back 16 University of Delaware shots as the Bears upset the 14th-ranked Blue Hens 9-6 in men's lacrosse action Saturday afternoon at Rullo Stadium.

Delaware, which lost despite outshooting Brown 51-31 and holding advantages in faceoffs (10-7), groundballs (33-21), and turnovers (11-18), had a two-game win streak snapped and fell to 7-3 on the season despite a four-point effort from sophomore Martin Cahill.

Cahill tallied three goals and dished out an assist and Curtis Dickson and Cam Howard each scored once and dished out an assist, but Delaware went nearly 40 minutes without a goal as Brown built a big lead and held on for the win. Dickson, who entered the game with an NCAA-leading 30 goals, extended his goal-scoring streak to 18 games, but did not get on the board until the final minute of the game.

Brown, which entered the game as the nation's No. 6 ranked defense, allowing just 6.17 goals per game, showed why as Burke, the national leader in save percentage at 71.1 percent, was brilliant in the nets all day long, facing 51 shots and posting 16 saves.

The Bears (6-2) won their fifth straight game as Kyle Hollingsworth scored twice and dished out four assists and Reade Seligmann and Andrew Feinberg each tallied twice. Brown took advantage of nine Delaware penalties as the Bears scored on four of nine extra-man opportunities, converting man-up goals on four of its first seven goals on the way to a 7-1 lead.

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