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Delaware Men's Lacrosse Falls to No. 16 Navy 5-1 in Defensive Struggle
2/21/2016 5:05:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The University of Delaware and No. 16 ranked Navy battled for 60 minutes in a defensive struggle Sunday afternoon, but it was the host Midshipmen who came away with a 5-1 victory at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium.
Delaware, (0-3), which lost its third straight game to open the season, managed just a single goal in the third period while Navy (2-1) scored single goals in the first and third periods and put the game away with three fourth-period goals.
Navy jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead on a goal by Matt Rees just 14 seconds into the game, but neither team scored the remainder of the half and the teams went into halftime tied 1-1.
The Blue Hens finally got on the board with 9:45 left in the third quarter and tied the game at 1-1 when junior Trupert Ortlieb scored his first goal of the season and just the third of his career off a feed from senior midfielder Steve DeLargy.
However, the Hens could not muster any more offense the rest of the day. Navy broke the tie on a goal by Kevin Wendel with 1:39 left in third quarter and the Mids tallied three more in the fourth period to pull away. Navy's T.J. Hanzsche scored two of those goals in the final 2:19 to preserve the victory.
Navy outshot Delaware 32-20 and held a 27-13 advantage in groundballs and turned the ball over just 10 times compared to the Hens' 17.
Delaware sophomore goalkeeper Parker Ferrigan, a first-year transfer from Syracuse, put in a solid effort in goal as he recorded 10 saves in his second career start. The five goals allowed by the Hens marked their best defensive effort since a 12-5 victory over Manhattan last season.
The single goal scored by Delaware's was its lowest offensive output since an 8-1 loss to Fairleigh Dickinson in 1969.
HEN SCRATCHINGS:
• Delaware returned to Navy-Marine Corps Stadium for the first time since defeating UMBC in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals in 2007.
• Delaware and Navy met for the first time since the 2005 NCAA Tournament
• The Hens will return to action next Saturday, Feb. 27, when they make their first ever trip to California to take on Michigan at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif.
• Delaware is off to a 0-3 start for the first time since 1986 when the team started 0-4 before rallying to capture the East Coast Conference title
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