EMMITSBURG, Md.—For the second time this season, the Hobart College lacrosse team defeated Mount St. Mary's University 13-9. The Statesmen scored five straight in the first half on the way to a 7-4 halftime lead and held off a late charge by the Mountaineers.
 
Hobart (2-1, 2-1 NEC) dominated the faceoff X, winning 19-of-25 on the day. Sophomore Adam Shea was 15-of-19 with a game-high 11 ground balls. He also won 15 faceoffs with 11 ground balls in the teams' first meeting two weeks ago. Sophomore goalie Kevin Holtby got the win with 13 saves. Junior midfielder Bradley Simas led the offense with a career-high four points, including his first hat trick. Juniors Derrek Madonna and Jason Knox each contributed three points.
 
Mount St. Mary's (1-6, 0-2 NEC) has six more ground balls than Hobart (39-33) and committed six fewer turnovers (19-13), but was tagged with 10 penalties for 7:00 minutes in the game. Senior midfielder Matt Haggerty and senior midfielder Brendan Doyle each scored twice and finished with three points. Senior midfielder Brenden McCarthy also had three points on a goal and two assists. Senior defenseman Chase Pirozzi had a team-high six ground balls. Senior goalie Dylan Furnback made 11 saves.
 
The Mount led 2-1 late in the first quarter, but junior defenseman Mark Synnott scored his second goal in as many games, tying the contest and senior attackman Tommy Mott netted his first goal of the season a minute later to give the Statesmen a 3-2 lead after 15 minutes.
 
Early in the second quarter, Simas scooped up a ground ball in the defensive zone and made a long pass ahead to Madonna, who flung a diagonal pass to Knox on the crease. The goal in transition gave Hobart a two-goal edge. Simas capped the five-goal run with back-to-back scores. On the first, he used a shake-n-bake move to create space for an open shot in the middle of the box. Less than a minute later from the left wing, Simas used a quick step toward the goal line to get inside his defender and deposited a shot over Furnback's left shoulder for a 6-2 lead.
 
MSM stopped the run with less than three minutes remaining in the half, ending a scoring drought that stretched for more than 17 minutes. Each team scored once more before halftime.
 
Hobart started the second half with an extra-man opportunity and needed just eight seconds to cash in, Knox scored off an assist from Madonna. Two minutes later, Madonna unleashed a scorching shot that gave the Statesmen their biggest lead of the game, 9-4.
 
The Mountaineers rallied with five of the next six goals to make it a one-goal game with over four and a half minutes left, but Hobart closed the game with three straight goals from first-year Anthony Dattellas, senior Ryan Archer and first-year Chad Bach. Dattellas and Bach each scored twice in the game, while Archer had a goal and an assist. 
 
After a 1-1 road trip, Hobart will return home to host Sacred Heart at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 27. The Pioneers (1-7, 0-3) suffered a 13-8 loss at LIU today.