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Men's Lacrosse hosts Albany in AE Championship title game
May 4, 2012 Stony Brook, N.Y. - America East Championship Game Game #16: #1 Stony Brook Seawolves (6-9) vs. #3 Albany Great Danes (5-10) Sat., May 5 • Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium • Stony Brook, N.Y. • 3 p.m. LIVE: STATS | VIDEO | AUDIO | TWITTER INFO: GAME NOTES (PDF) TV: ESPN3 Stony Brook Seawolves (6-9) Albany Great Danes (5-10) About The Game: Top-seeded Stony Brook hosts #3 Albany in the America East Championship game. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the Men's Lacrosse Championship. The Seawolves defeated #4 Hartford, 9-8, while the Great Danes topped #2 UMBC, 19-8, in semifinal action. Scouting Albany: Miles and Lyle Thompson tallied five goals apiece, and Joe Resetarits added four in Wednesday's victory at UMBC. Resetarits leads the Great Danes with 45 goals and 63 points. Miles Thompson is second in goals (36) and tops in assists (23). Ty Thompson has 29 goals and Lyle Thompson 21. Keith Olson is 127 of 263 (.483) from the 'X'. Max Huber owns a 12.07 goals against average and a .434 save percentage. 12 of its players hail from Long Island, including five from Suffolk County.
Last Time Out: Redshirt freshman Mike Rooney (East Islip, N.Y.) tallied two goals and three assists and junior Sean Brady (Huntington Bay, N.Y.) made eight saves to lead the top-seeded Stony Brook men's lacrosse team to a 9-8 win over #4 Hartford in an America East Championship semifinal. |