BROOKVILLE, N.Y.—Hobart College sophomore faceoff specialist Adam Shea dominated the faceoff X, but the Statesmen ran into a hot goalie, falling to Long Island University 14-12. Sophomore Will Mark registered a 24-save performance for the Sharks, negating Hobart's 53-40 advantage in shots.
 
Shea was on fire in the first quarter, winning 10-of-11 restarts. He finished the day 22-of-30 with a game-high 12 ground balls. First-year attackman Anthony Dattellas scored a team-high three goals for his first collegiate hat trick. Senior attackman Ryan Archer led the Statesmen with four points on a goal and three assists.
 
Mark matched Shea's hot start, recording 11 saves in the first quarter. Sophomore attackman Richie LaCalandra and sophomore attackman Sean Boll game-high honors with four goals apiece, while LaCalandra also handed out two assists for a game-high six points.
 
Hobart (1-1, 1-1 NEC) jumped out to a 2-0 lead with only 37 seconds run off the clock. Archer fed sophomore attackman Jack Grooms to open the scoring just 26 seconds in. Shea won the ensuing faceoff and sophomore midfielder Bobby Baltzer finished a feed from senior long-stick midfielder Dan Ryan 11 seconds later.
 
The Sharks (3-1, 2-0) used a five-goal surge to take their first lead of the day. Senior attackman Will Snelders bookended the run with two of his three goals in the game, while Boll also scored twice. A man-up goal by sophomore midfielder Adam Davis, assisted by Archer, stopped the run. The Statesmen finished the game 4-of-8 with the extra man.
 
Each team added another goal to give LIU a 6-4 lead after 15 minutes.
 
LIU scored the first and last goals of the second quarter, but in between, Hobart struck three times to make it a one-goal game going into halftime. Junior attackman Jason Knox, first-year midfielder Chad Bach and junior midfielder Bradley Simas scored in a four-minute flourish to tie the game at 7. Boll scored a man-up goal with 2:12 left to halftime, giving the home team the edge at the break.
 
The Sharks outscored the Statesmen 3-0 in the third quarter for an 11-7 lead. The Statesmen cut their deficit to three twice in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter. Junior midfielder Derrek Madonna set up Knox for a laser on the right side. LaCalandra restored the four-goal lead a minute and a half later. Dattellas scored man up just over a minute after that to make it 12-9.
 
Snelders and LaCalandra scored back-to-back just over a minute apart midway through the fourth quarter to build the Sharks' largest lead of the day, 14-9.
 
Dattellas and junior defenseman Mark Synnott netted consecutive goals to make it a 14-11 game with just under five minutes to go. Hobart's final goal of the day, Archer assisted by Madonna, came with 38 seconds left, but the Statesmen's hopes of a comeback were dashed when senior defenseman Ryan Blume won the ensuing faceoff and the Sharks ran out the clock.
 
Hobart will travel to Mount St. Mary's (1-5, 0-1) on Saturday, March 20. The Mountaineers were supposed to play at Bryant today, but the game was postponed.