March 15, 2002

HAMILTON, N.Y.- The Colgate University men's lacrosse team picked up their first home win of the 2002 season on Tyler's Field with a 14-2 victory over Siena.

Senior co-captain Ian Franke (Duxbury, Mass.) led the Raiders to the win with his three goals and an assist, all in Colgate's second period scoring rally. The Raiders put up six goals in the second, including Franke's three and goals from Nick Gerken (Wilton, Conn.), Jason Vasas (Fairport, N.Y.) and Jeff Vander Meulen (Liverpool, N.Y.).

Colgate opened scoring in just over a minute into play with Peter Watt's (Wayland, Mass.) unassisted goal at 1:03. Siena answered back with a goal from Christopher Padden at 3:29.

The Raiders would score twice in the seventh minute of the first period to put them ahead for the remainder of the game with goals from Gerken, assisted by Joe Parker (Crofton, Md.), and Chris Michaels (Pennington, N.J.), assisted by Franke. Michael's goal would prove to be the game-winner.

Watts finished the game with three goals to match Franke.

Daniel Wolpert scored Siena's only remaining goal, his sixth of the season, at 14:01 in the second.

The Saints, who fell to 1-1 on the season, take two weeks off before hosting Vermont on March 27th.

Colgate 14, SIENA 2

Colgate 3 6 1 4 - 14

SIENA 1 1 0 0 - 2

GOALS: COLGATE: Franke 3, Gerken 2, Michaels, Vasas, Watts 3, Hearne, Vander Meulen, Adler, Benson SIENA: Wolpert, Padden

ASSISTS: COLGATE: Franke, Parker 3, Michaels, Hearne, Herbst, Vasas, Vander Meulen SIENA: Serge

SAVES: COLGATE:Chris Hettler 5 saves, Kevin Kelly 1 SIENA: Pence 1 save

SHOTS: Colgate 24, Siena 18

GROUNDBALLS: Colgate 42, Siena 25

FACEOFFS (W-L): Colgate 10-9, Siena 9-10