Score: UAlbany 15, Vermont 11
  
Location: Virtue Field in Burlington, Vt.
   
Records: UAlbany (5-8, 3-2 America East) | Vermont (4-6, 2-2 America East)
   
Short Story: The University at Albany men's lacrosse team scored six goals in the first quarter, building a lead the Great Danes would never relinquish in a massive road win over Vermont on Saturday afternoon, 15-11.
  
Key Stat Lines  

• Silas Richmond was the star for UAlbany, scoring a game-high five goals to go along with two assists for seven points.
• Ryan Doherty followed closely with four goals and one assist for five points. He added two ground balls.
• Jackson Palumb recorded a hat trick of his own, dropping three goals to go along with a ground ball.
• Max Neeson scored with the long pole early in the game. Defensively, he finished with five ground balls and four caused turnovers.
• As a team, UAlbany recorded 12 assists.
• Brady Smith made four saves in net.

Head Coach Scott Marr: "I thought our preparation and attention to detail, by our entire team throughout the week, was the difference in the game. Our scout team did an unbelievable job of getting our starters prepared. Our practice is now translating to our games, we played aggressively from the opening whistle. All even defense was nasty and 15 of our 12 goals were assisted. Total team win!" 

How it Happened:  

• UAlbany got on the board early with a goal from Silas Richmond, going five-hole for his first of the day.
• Two minutes later, Max Neeson made it 2-0 with his fourth pole goal of the season, scoring in transition.
• Jackson Palumb then scored back-to-back goals to extend the UAlbany lead to 4-0. Parker Emmett and Daniel Kesselring collected assists on the goals.
• With 7:23 left in the first, UAlbany made it five straight goals with another score from Richmond.
• The Catamounts got on the board with 3:39 remaining in the opening quarter on a shot from Charlie Pope, who just returned to the Vermont lineup from injury.
• Ryan Doherty extended the lead back to five after scoring his 30^th goal of the year with 3:05 on the clock, 6-1.
• The Catamounts scored the first of the second quarter three minutes in on a shot from Pat Coughlin.
• Vermont then scored back-to-back goals within seven seconds of each other to make it 6-4. The scores came from Cullen Decker and Max Frattaroli.
• Richmond snapped Vermont's scoring run with his third of the afternoon, going underhand on a feed from Will Hardy to make it 7-4 with 8:12 remaining in the first half.
• Two minutes later, Richmond made the Catamounts pay again with his fourth of the afternoon, getting open up top before finishing on a pass from Kesselring.
• With less than three minutes remaining in the first half, Vermont cut its deficit to three on a goal from Tatum Lewis in traffic.
• Palumb pushed the lead back to four with 1:09 on the clock, burying a wrap-around while absorbing a big hit. The goal cemented his first half hat trick.
• The Catamounts got the first of the second half on a rip from Matthew Drimmie, making it 9-6.
• Koleton Marquis found Doherty in front of the net with 5:49 remaining in the third for UAlbany's first of the second half.
• The Catamounts responded less than a minute later to cut the deficit back to just three, 10-7.
• Doherty next became the third Great Danes with a hat trick on the afternoon, scoring close up on a pass from Kesselring with about three minutes left in the third.
• Doherty added one more goal before the third came to a close, pushing the UAlbany lead back to five goals, 12-7, in the final 10 seconds.
• The first goal of the final frame went to Charlie Pope and the Catamounts two minutes in. Vermont made it two in a row about a minute later on Decker's second of the game, 12-9.
• Vermont made it three straight goals with 10:29 on the clock, cutting it to 12-10.
• Richmond was able to stop the bleeding with his fifth of the game midway through the fourth, scoring from a long way out to push the lead to 13-10.
• Parker Emmett took a feed from Richmond, who had a BTB pass, for a score with 2:49 left.
• UAlbany's Marquis put the nail in the coffin with another goal with 1:18 on the clock to push the lead to 15-10.
• Vermont's Jack Combs got another for the Catamounts with under a minute remaining. It would be the final goal of the game.

 
Next: The Great Danes return home to finish up the regular season at Casey Stadium. UAlbany will face off against Yale next Saturday night, April 19, at the team's Spring Stomp. The regular season concludes the following Saturday, April 26, when UAlbany hosts NJIT for Senior Night. Stay up to date with UAlbany men's lacrosse by following the team on X (@UAlbanyMLax) and Instagram (@ualbanymlax) for all of the latest news and highlights throughout the year.