Spartan lacrosse knocks off Defiance for win 50

The AU defense shutout Defiance in a dominating effort.

Box Score The Aurora University men's lacrosse team hosted the Defiance College Yellow Jackets at Vago Field on Wednesday afternoon. The Spartans defeated the Yellow Jackets by a final score of 27-0 making it the Spartans 50th win in the fourth year of the program.

AU opened up the scoring under a minute into the game as senior Pat Diorka beat the Defiance goalie off an assist by senior Jack Barry. The Spartans scored six more times before the first quarter came to an end. Goal scorers for AU were Diorka (three), Max Obriecht, Jordan Williams, Zach Henry and Alex Gebben.

Aurora continued to find the back of the net over the remainder of the game with 11 goals in the second, 5 in the third, and 4 more in the final quarter.

In all, 17 different Spartans scored a goal with Obriecht leading the team in scoring with five points (two goals and three assists). AU goal scorers were Williams (three), Diorka (three), Jason Koziol, Gebben, Matt Smidlein, Nolan Miller and Kyle Frazier each had two and Danny Loyall, Henry, Austin Hensen, Justin Bose, Dustin Rhodes, Tyler Hetrick, Dan Gould, Bailey Smith and Kyle Lowy all had one goal.

The Spartans won 25 of the 30 face-offs with Obriecht going 16-of-19 and Jeremy Kartel was a perfect four for four in this department. AU out shot Defiance 74 to 5, picked up 69 ground balls to 21 and forced 32 Yellow Jacket turnovers while only committing 13.

Senior Adam Holka and freshman Cameron Brooks split halves as goal keeper with Holka earning the win and Brooks picking up three saves.

With the win, AU is now 10-3 overall and 7-0 in the MLC. Next action for the Spartan men's lacrosse team is on Saturday, April 19 when they host Hanover College. Game time set for 1:00 p.m. on Vago Field.

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