GENEVA, N.Y.—The defense keyed the Hobart College lacrosse team's 13-6 Northeast Conference win over Bryant University at Boswell Field today. The Statesmen carried a shutout into the final two minutes of the first half and finished the game with a season-high matching 10 caused turnovers.
 
Senior goalie Jackson Brown made 11 saves to earn the win. Junior long-stick midfielder Christopher Willman had three caused turnovers and three ground balls. Senior defenseman Arik Andreen and first-year long-stick midfielder Sam Mueller each had two caused turnovers.
 
On offense for the Statesmen (6-6, 3-1), sophomore attackman Chris Aslanian had a game-high four points, scoring once with three assists. He now has a team-high 19 helpers, tied for 17th place on Hobart's Division I single season list. First-year attackman Justin Scott added a hat trick. Senior attackman Frank Brown, senior midfielder Sean Donnelly and first-year midfielder Eric Holden each scored twice.
 
The Statesmen enjoyed a 13-8 advantage on faceoffs and a 33-25 edge in ground balls. Junior J Andrew Spallanzani won 13 of the 20 restarts he took and scooped up a game-high five ground balls.
 
Senior midfielder Ryan Sharpe had three goals to lead Bryant. Sophomore midfielder Jake Buonaiuto added two scores. Junior goalie James Werner finished with 18 stops.
 
Both defenses were perfect in the first quarter with Werner posting five saves to Jackson Brown's three. The Bulldogs flinched first.
 
About a minute into the second quarter, Scott unleashed a 15-yard shot that hit Frank Brown, who was right on the crease, in the chest and ricocheted into the goal. Less than two minutes later, Holden scored for a 2-0 lead. Aslanian set up Scott midway through the frame for a three-goal advantage.
 
Junior attackman Cam Ziegler got Bryant on the board with an unassisted goal 94 seconds before halftime.
 
Hobart took control of the game in the third quarter, logging three extra-man goals among its six tallies in the frame. Scott buried a feed from Aslanian for an extra-man goal just over two minutes into the half. Sharpe got the goal back for the Bulldogs about a minute later, but Spallanzani won the ensuing faceoff and went straight to the cage, scoring his first goal of the year and sparking a three-goal run for the Statesmen. Scott and Holden followed with unassisted goals to make it a 7-2 Hobart lead with about seven minutes left in the third.
 
Bryant needed just eight seconds of its only extra-man opportunity to stop the run, but Donnelly and senior midfielder Tanner John answered with man-up goals 30 seconds apart to give the Statesmen a 9-3 lead. Hobart was 3-for-3 with the extra man today.
 
Buonaiuto netted the final goal of the third quarter and the first of the fourth quarter to pull the Bulldogs within four, but Hobart scored four of the day's final five goals to secure the victory.
 
The Statesmen moved past Bryant into second place in the NEC standings. Hobart sits one game behind Robert Morris (8-4, 4-0). The Statesmen end the regular season against the Colonials in Moon Township, Pa.