Lathrop Tallies Career-High Four Goals as Men’s Lacrosse Defeats Hobart, 12-6, for First-Ever A-10 Victory

Saturday, April 4

Newark, Del.

1 PM

University of Delaware

3-7, 1-2

Hobart

2-8, 0-3

Hobart

Delaware

Photo by: Mikey Reeves

Lathrop Tallies Career-High Four Goals as Men’s Lacrosse Defeats Hobart, 12-6, for First-Ever A-10 Victory

4/4/2026 3:41:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score

NEWARK, Del. – Keegan Lathrop tallied a career-high four goals as the University of Delaware men's lacrosse team earned its first-ever Atlantic 10 Conference victory, defeating the Hobart Statesmen, 12-6, on Saturday at Delaware Stadium. The Fightin' Blue Hens improve to 3-7, 1-2 A-10, while the Statesmen drop to 2-8, 0-3 A-10.

HENS HIGHLIGHTS

Delaware tied a season high with 12 goals.
UD notched a season-high 44 ground balls.
Lathrop recorded his first-career hat trick, scoring four goals to go with one assist for a career-best five points.
Finn Morgan, Tyler Owings, and Brendan Powers each posted a goal and an assist for two points.
Franky Fix and Nathan Furgeson each scored a goal, the first-career tally for both players.
John McCurry had a career-high two caused turnovers to go along with an assist.
Scott Conte scooped a career-best 10 ground balls while winning 16-of-18 faceoffs.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Delaware opened the game with an early goal from Morgan, to go up 1-0 just before the two-minute mark. The Hens' extended their lead in the opening frame courtesy of back-to-back tallies from Bennett Parmer and Owings to make it 3-0 at the end of the first quarter.
The Statesmen would add two-quick strikes early in the second quarter to cut the UD lead to one. Lathrop and the Hens' offense would continue to roll, adding onto their advantage with two-consecutive goals, bringing the score to 5-2. Kolar would find the back of the net to increase the Blue Hens' lead to four going into halftime.
Lathrop recorded his first-career hat trick early in the third to extend the Delaware lead to five. The visitors would respond with two-consecutive goals, trimming the UD lead to 7-4 with 4:28 left in the third frame. Furgeson and Jack Kolbe added back-to-back goals just 40 seconds apart to put the Hens back up by five at the end of the third quarter.
Powers and Lathrop gave the Hens their largest lead of the day with two goals in a row extending UD's lead to 11-4. Hobart added two quick goals before Fix scored his first-career goal with 14 seconds left in the game to seal the victory for the Hens.

GAME NOTES

UD improved to 46-3 when allowing nine or fewer goals under Ben DeLuca.
The Blue & Gold moved to 49-19 when scoring first under DeLuca.
The Hens jumped to 51-13 when leading after three quarters under DeLuca.

UP NEXT
The Fightin' Blue Hens will travel to UMass on Saturday, April 11 at 2 p.m. The game will air on ESPN+.

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