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The UAlbany Great Danes are headed back to the America East title game for the first time since 2018 after taking down the UMBC Retrievers 14-12.
While the Danes rolled early and took a commanding 7-1 lead late in the first quarter, the top-seeded Retrievers weren’t going down that easy. UMBC went on a 6-1 run from the 1:04 mark in the first through the 2:42 mark in the third to cut the Albany lead to 8-7.
Albany veered back on course and used a three-goal run of their own to pull ahead 11-7 with 46 seconds left in the third. However, UMBC was able to use a four-goal run to tie things up at 11 with 9:52 remaining in regulation. Albany’s Kyle Casey and UMBC’s Brandon Galloway traded goals midway through the fourth before two straight from Corey Yunker and Ron John put this one away and sealed the win for the Danes.
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Fast starts have been hard to come by for the UAlbany men’s lacrosse team this season.
Head coach Scott Marr has even taken it down to the granular level of pre-game music, telling his players to shed the earbuds and headphones to get more in tune with their teammates.
He got what he wanted on Thursday, and also what the Great Danes needed at the end, as UAlbany scored two goals in the final 2:27 to beat UMBC 14-12 in the semifinals of the America East tournament in Catonsville, Maryland.
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The UAlbany Great Danes had to win Thursday’s America East Semifinal twice on Thursday afternoon in Catonsville, Md. First, they built a seven-goal first quarter lead and appeared to have the game in hand, only to have the Retrievers chip away and a four-goal run lead to a tie game with 10 minutes to go.
Then, after Brandon Galloway’s fifth goal of the day brought UMBC level once again, Corey Yunker had to score the final go-ahead tally with 2:27 two play, and Ron John iced it with 1:13 to go.
UAlbany topped UMBC 14-12 and advance to take on Vermont in the America East Semifinals on Saturday at 10 a.m. at UMBC. The game will be aired live on ESPNU.
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Head coach Scott Marr s UAlbany men s lacrosse team finished the regular season with a 16-14 loss at Vermont on Wednesday.
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The UAlbany men’s lacrosse team finished the regular season by not finishing scoring plays on Wednesday.
The Great Danes were supposed to have played Hartford for Senior Night on Saturday, but after that game was canceled, UAlbany trudges into the America East playoffs on the heels of a 16-14 loss on a gray, soggy day at Vermont.
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ALBANY Fun’s over for the UAlbany men’s lacrosse team.
The Great Danes grabbed footballs instead of sticks when they took to the practice field last Friday for an hour and a half of spirited two-hand touch, then got the weekend off to play golf some performing well, others “personally, not that great,” senior attack Ron John said, referring to himself with a laugh.
But fun time is over, and crunch time has started for UAlbany, with three games in eight days to close the regular season, by virtue of the big rematch game at Vermont having been postponed from April 16 to April 28.