Georgetown hands Syracuse lacrosse one of its worst NCAA tournament losses ever, 18-8
Updated May 15, 2021;
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College Park, Md. The Syracuse lacrosse team’s season of high expectations ended with a thud on Saturday night.
Declan McDermott and Jake Carraway each scored five times, and Dylan Hess added four as Georgetown thrashed SU 18-8 in a first-round NCAA tournament game in College Park, Maryland.
Jamie Trimboli paced SU with three goals. Drake Porter made 15 stops in net for SU while his Hoyas counterpart, Owen McElroy, stopped 10.
Georgetown’s total was one shy of the most goals SU has ever allowed in a NCAA tournament game. The Orange’s deficit was also one shy of its biggest tournament loss ever, 19-8 to Johns Hopkins in the 2003 semifinal. Syracuse has lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament for three straight years (not counting last season’s Covid-shortened season).
Opponent preview: What to know about No. 5-seed Georgetown
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Unseeded Syracuse faces No.5-seed Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
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No. 10 Syracuse renews a traditional Big East rivalry on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Orange (7-5, 2-4 Atlantic Coast) travel to a neutral venue at Maryland’s Capital One Field to take on No. 5-seed Georgetown (12-2, 9-1 Big East) at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. It will be SU’s 13th-straight year in the NCAA Tournament, though it hasn’t made it out of the first round since 2017.