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12
Winner North Central (Ill.) NCC 6-0
7
Aurora AURORA 3-4
Winner
North Central (Ill.) NCC
6-0
12
Final
7
Aurora AURORA
3-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
North Central (Ill.) NCC 1 5 4 2 12
Aurora AURORA 2 1 2 2 7

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse |

Spartans Unable To Keep Pace With North Central

The Aurora University men's lacrosse team continued their home stand on Wednesday evening when they squared off against the Cardinals of North Central College at Spartan Athletic Park. The Spartans would fall to North Central by a score of 12-7.

The Basics
GAME SCORE: North Central College 12, Aurora University 7
RECORDS: Aurora University 3-4 overall ; North Central College 6-0 overall
LOCATION: Montgomery, Illinois - Spartan Athletic Park

How it happened
- AU didn't waste much time grabbing the early 1-0 lead when Brody MacDonald found Carson Leader for his 7th goal of the season.
- With 4:40 to go in the first quarter, Chris Bucci found the back of the net off an assist from Tyler Foerstel making it 2-0 AU.
- The Cardinals scored four unanswered goals to take a 4-2 lead with 5:50 left in the first half.
- Luke DuPont halted the Cardinal scoring run with his first goal of the season to trim AU's deficit to 4-3. Owen Spencer assisted DuPont on the play.
- North Central scored two more goals before the halftime buzzer, giving the Spartans a 6-3 deficit going into the locker room.
- Just over a minute into the third quarter, Owen Spencer sifted around a couple of Cardinal defenders and made it 6-4.
- The Cardinals took a 10-4 lead with just over a minute to go in the third quarter.
- Foerstel answered back with two goals of his own as AU saw a 10-6 deficit in the beginning of the fourth quarter.
- After North Central made 11-6, MacDonald picked up his second goal of the game with 9:32 left.
- AU would end up falling 12-7 in the contest.

Spartan Leaders
Points: Tyler Foerstel (3), Brody MacDonald and Owen Spencer (2)
Goals: Tyler Foerstel (2)
Assists: Brody MacDonald, Owen Spencer and Tyler Foerstel (1)
Ground balls: Brody MacDonald and Asher Deputy (6), and Austin Spoklie (5)
Caused Turnovers: Austin Spoklie, Ben Strub and Benjamin Jasper (2)
Saves: Asher Deputy (11)

Up Next
Next scheduled action for the Spartan men's lacrosse team comes on Saturday, March 23 when they host Kalamazoo College Opening face-off is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Spartan Athletic Park in Montgomery, Illinois.
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