NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – The Westminster College men's lacrosse team won in a dominant fashion, 22-3, against Thiel at home on Sunday. A total of 14 different Titans scored a goal for a complete team effort.
Junior
Joe Rosa (Newton, NJ / Kittatinny Regional), sophomore
Nick Hubner (Pittsburgh, PA / Plum), and first-year
Payton Waight (Ithaca, NY / Ithaca) each had a team-high three goals (Hubner's career-high). Senior
Jesse Dodd (Pittsburgh, PA / Mount Lebanon) and junior
Shawn Kernaghan (Denver, PA / Cocalico) also had multiple goals with two apiece (
Shawn Kernaghan's career-high). Sophomore
Boyd Foster (Lincoln, RI / Lincoln) registered a game- and career-high four points, including a game- and career-best three assists. Sophomores
Ryan Greer (Cranberry Twp, PA / Seneca Valley) and
Hamish Mathwin (Marion, Australia / Westminster) both earned two assists and a goal for three points each.
Westminster junior
Mike Roman (Fort Washington, PA / Germantown Academy) earned a game- and career-high seven caused turnovers (two more than the entire Thiel defense). Senior
Romano Veneziano (Pittsburgh, PA / Pittsburgh Online Academy) and first-year
Dino Mario D'Alesio (Youngstown, OH / Cardinal Mooney) corralled a team-high seven ground balls each (career-high for both).
Titan junior goalie
Ben Romah (Coraopolis, PA / Moon Area) got the start and earned his second win of the season, while gathering in a career-high four saves in 30 minutes of work.
Thiel (2-1) scored first, however Westminster (4-1) would not let the Tomcats score again until the beginning of the fourth quarter, while the Titans scored 16-straight.
Westminster will next play at Franciscan on Sat., March 27 with a 3 p.m. start, its final game before its Presidents' Athletic Conference schedule.