Box Score MEDFORD - Senior co-captain John Uppgren scored six goals with four assists for a 10-point game as the Tufts University men's lacrosse team won a first-place NESCAC showdown over Bowdoin, 20-10, on Wednesday night at Bello Field.
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| John Cordrey picked up his first collegiate point with a late assist |
In the final game of the regular-season, a win by either the Jumbos or the Polar Bears would have given them the #1 seed in the NESCAC Championship tournament that starts on Saturday. Tufts earned the top seed for the fifth time while finishing the regular-season at 13-2 overall and 9-1 in NESCAC.
Bowdoin, led by two goals and two assists from both Shawn Daly and Matthew Crowell, dropped to 11-4 overall and 7-3 in the league.
The Jumbos will host #8 seed Connecticut College in the quarterfinal round of the NESCAC Championship on Saturday. Third-seed Bowdoin will host #6 Wesleyan. Game time for both is 1 pm.
The Polar Bears came out of the first quarter tonight with a 4-3 lead. Daly had the last two goals of the period at 5:59 and 4:53, while also adding an earlier assist. Defenseman Blake Wood had one of the Jumbo goals.
Tufts began to take charge in the second quarter, scoring the first five goals. Kyle Howard-Johnson had two of them, while Uppgren's tally at 4:37 gave Tufts an 8-4 lead. Bowdoin's Crowell pulled the visitors within 8-5 with the last goal of the first half at 3:39.
The Jumbos would out-score Bowdoin 7-2 in the third quarter to lead 15-7. Six different Jumbos scored the goals with Zach Richman contributing two. Bowdoin's Peter Reuter had scored at 8:04 of the third to keep the guests within 11-7, but Tufts scored four times in a 3:33 span to gain their eight-goal advantage.
Tufts went two for one with Bowdoin in the first nine minutes of the fourth quarter making it a 19-9 lead. Uppgren had three of the goals for the hosts. Clayton Wright scored the final Polar Bear goal of the game at 5:06 of the fourth before Austin Carbone closed the scoring for the Jumbos at 4:28.
Fourteen penalties were whistled. Tufts scored on its first three man-up opportunities and finished 3 for 5. The Jumbos only turned the ball over eight times and did not fail on 20 clear attempts. They out-shot the Polar Bears 59-40 and took tight battles in groundballs (36-33) and face-offs (17-15).
Jake Gillespie and Ben Andreycak both had a goal and three assists for Tufts. Richman and Howard-Johnson both netted three goals. In addition to his goal, Wood grabbed four groundballs. Alex Salazar made 10 saves in the Jumbo net.
Wright finished with two goals and an assist for Bowdoin. Parker Sessions caused two turnovers and picked up three groundballs. Goalie Peter Mumford made 13 stops while John Young came in and stopped four. The Polar Bears scored twice on nine man-advantages and turned the ball over 21 times.
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