WESTMINSTER, Md. – Mark Hild notched four goals and three assists – all in the first half – to lead Franklin & Marshall to an 11-6 win over McDaniel in Centennial Conference (CC) men's lacrosse action on Wednesday. Bill Warner (Yardley, Pa./LaSalle) paced the Green Terror (4-5, 0-3 CC) with three assists.

Noah Wilkinsky added three goals and an assist for the Diplomats (7-2, 3-1 CC), who built an 8-2 lead at halftime en route to the five-goal win. Hild and Shane Brennan finished solo runs in the game's first eight minutes to stake Franklin & Marshall to a 2-0 lead.

Matthew Daley (Wilmington, Del./A.I. Dupont) finished the first of Warner's helpers at the 4:29 mark to pull McDaniel within 2-1 but Wilkinsky responded eight seconds later to push the lead back to two.

A Hild man-down goal three-and-a-half minutes into the second quarter made it a 4-1 game before Matt Buschman (Towson, Md./Calvert Hall) notched the first of his two tallies in a man-up situation to pull the hosts back within two.

Hild was a part of each goal during a 4-0 run, including finding Bobby Atkins four seconds before the intermission to give the Diplomats an 8-2 lead.

Back-to-back Evan Young (Easton, Md./Broadneck) finished back-to-back Warner assists to trim the deficit to 8-4 before Jeff Ritter and Buschman exchanged tallied over the final 3:03 of the third quarter. Mike Hatton (Corning, N.Y./Corning East) sandwiched a pair of Wilkinsky goals in the fourth quarter to set the final margin.

Sean Murphy won 11 of 17 faceoffs for Franklin & Marshall. The Green Terror returns to action at home against Swarthmore on Saturday. Game time is 3:00 p.m.

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WESTMINSTER, Md. - Mark Hild scored four goals, including the game-winner, and assisted on three others to lead Franklin & Marshall to an 11-6 Centennial Conference (CC) men's lacrosse win at McDaniel on Wednesday. All four of his goals came in a first half dominated by the Diplomats (7-2, 3-1 CC).

It took Hild, the reigning Centennial Player of the Week, 1:24 of the first quarter to give F&M its first lead of the day. The Diplomats never looked back from there. Just over six minutes later, Shane Brennan made it 2-0 by dashing out from behind the net to pop a shot in the top right corner past the Terror (4-5, 0-3 CC) keeper, Kenny McHugh. McHugh was under siege throughout the first quarter, facing 13 F&M shots. He turned away six in the period.

McDaniel finally got on the board with 4:29 showing connecting on a bang-bang play between Matt Daley and Bill Warner.

F&M's Sean Murphy won the ensuing faceoff cleanly, scooped up the loose ball and sent F&M back on the attack. Eight seconds after McDaniel's first goal, the Diplomats answered with Noah Wilkinsky getting the first goal of his hat trick on a pass from Hild.

Murphy won 11 of the 17 faceoffs he took in the game, with F&M claiming 12 of the game's 20 faceoffs. The Dips took eight of 12 in the first half alone.

Hild and Wilkinsky conspired again in the second quarter with Hild netting the Diplomats' first shorthanded goal of the season. Andrew Capone was serving a minute for a cross-check, when a loose ball push was called on the center-stripe. Two passes later the ball came back to the x in the hand of an official with the Diplomats holding a 4-1 lead.

McDaniel answered on their next extra-man opportunity with Matt Buschman finding the net three minutes after Hild's man-down tally. The game was marred by 17 penalties.

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