#14 Mocs Celebrate Senior Day with Dominant Victory

LAKELAND, Fla. – The Florida Southern men's lacrosse team celebrated 17 seniors Saturday afternoon following the Moccasins dominant victory over Palm Beach Atlantic, 20-8. The victory gave FSC 11 wins in 2022 tying the program record for wins in a single season. It also marked the fifth Sunshine State Conference victory of the year which set a new program record for SSC wins in a season. The 20 goals also marked the first time FSC has scored 20-or-more goals in a game five times in one season.
 
The Mocs improved to 11-5 on the season and 5-2 in SSC play while the Sailfish fell to 5-9 overall and 1-6 in league action.
 
The Mocs had several strong performances on the field Saturday as senior Sean Nolan led the way with eight points off of four goals and four assists. The hat trick notched his ninth of the season putting him just one away from tying the single season record at FSC. Senior Jeff Atlas chipped in four goals of his own to bring his season total for points to 88, just 12 away from a 100-point season with postseason games still left on the schedule. Freshman Matt Flammenspeck joined in on the fun with four goals of his own. All three Mocs each picked up two ground balls in the victory.
 
Senior Edward May and junior Jay Minor each chipped in a hat trick with three goals each. May added an assist for a four-point effort. Senior Andrew Medeiros handed out a career-high three assists in the contest as well.
 
Sophomore Nick Shannon had a tremendous day on defense as he earned six caused turnovers and six ground balls. Senior Kevin Horwitz picked up a game-high 10 ground balls while winning 14 of his 22 faceoffs.
 
Senior Maxwell Freestone picked up the win in net as he made 11 saves in the victory while allowing seven goals He improved to 9-4 on the season in goal after seeing nearly 56 minutes of action Saturday.
 
Henry Sloyan led the Sailfish with four goals in the loss.
 
The Mocs honored seniors Jeff Atlas, Edward Beyer, Philip Chevrette, Justin Clement, Craig Connor, Maxwell Freestone, Noah Hess, Kevin Horwitz, Tyler Humphrey, Jordan Long, Shane Lumsden, Edward May, Andrew Medeiros, Sean Nolan, Trey Saunders, Lucas Sommers, and Cole Williams in a postgame ceremony.
 
The Mocs got on the board quickly as Nolan scored the opening three goals of the contest within the first three minutes of action. After a pair of PBA goals cut the deficit to just one, FSC went on to score six-straight to open up a 9-2 lead with just under 10 minutes to play in the opening half. Atlas scored two of the six goals while the other four came from Nolan, May, Flammenspeck and Minor.
 
PBA would score a goal late in the second quarter and then opened the second half with a goal to cut the lead to 9-4. FSC would then out-score the Sailfish 8-1 over the next 15 minutes to open up a 17-5 advantage. The Mocs and Sailfish traded goals down the stretch for an eventual final of 20-8.
 
With the victory and Rollins win over Florida Tech Saturday afternoon, the second, third and fourth seeds for the upcoming Sunshine State Conference Championship came down to goals against average. Rollins won the tie break with a 11.857 GAA to earn the No. 2 seed. Florida Southern came in second in the tie break with a 12.286 GAA to take the No. 3 seed while Florida Tech finished in third in the tie break with a 13.00 GAA to take the final spot and the No. 4 seed. The Mocs will now travel to Rollins College Thursday, April 28 for the semifinals of the SSC Championship with a chance to play the winner of No. 1 Tampa and No. 4 Florida Tech for the conference championship on Sunday, May 1.
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