Orange Comeback Falls Short at Notre Dame

Saturday, March 30

South Bend, Ind.

12 PM

Syracuse University

5-3, 1-2ACC

Notre Dame

5-3, 1-1ACC

Syracuse

Notre Dame

Photo by: Jon Braude

3/30/2019 2:41:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score Press Conference Highlights

The Syracuse men's lacrosse team (5-3, 1-2 ACC) put together another thrilling second half comeback, but No. 12 Notre Dame (5-3, 1-1 ACC) had strung together a strong enough first 30-minutes to withstand the 7-0 Orange run, winning 13-10 at Arlotta Stadium.

The Orange trailed by as many as 11 in the second quarter and cut it to two in the fourth, but the Irish scored two of the final three to pickup the crucial ACC win. Jamie Trimboli led the way with four points on his 21st birthday, with Bradley Voigt (3-0) and Nate Solomon (2-1) also posting three-point days.

Luke Strang also posted a strong showing in relief in cage, stopping five shots and allowing just two second-half goals. Jakob Phaup was stellar at the X once again, winning 15-of-21 restarts.

"We got off to a bad start and they got off to a good start," said head coach John Desko. "It made us have to play early offense and fortunately we were winning faceoffs, so that helped us play better in the second half. We can't do that in games like this. Big ACC game. Notre Dame coming off back-to-back loses. We knew they were going to be ready to play.

The Fighting Irish scored nine of the game's first-10 goals and 11 of the first-13, taking eight and nine goal leads in the first half. Eight of the Irish's goals came off their first midfield unit, led by Bryan Costabile scoring five himself.

The Orange started to mount their comeback in the second half. Solomon scored twice to start the third, followed by goals from Stephen Rehfuss and Voigt to start the Orange run. Trimboli and Lipka pulled 'Cuse to within two midway through the fourth, but Costabile scored two-straight goals to put the Orange away late.

'Cuse will have a quick turnaround, traveling to Geneva, N.Y. to face Hobart on Tuesday.

GAME NOTES: Nick Mellen moved into a tie for sixth all-time at Syracuse with 47 caused turnovers … Nate Solomon extended his consecutive games with a point streak to 25.