CORTLAND, NY – The nationally 20th-ranked Cortland men's lacrosse team used three separate 5-0 scoring runs to roll to a 19-7 home victory over Nazareth in a non-conference contest on Wednesday on Grady Field. Cortland improves to 3-2 on the year, while Nazareth drops to 0-6. 
 
Sean Kavanagh (North Canton, OH/Hoover) led the Red Dragons with seven points on four goals and three assists, while Frank Neeson (Orchard Park) chipped in four goals. Nathan Nagengast (Bay Shore), Nick Stoecker (East Setauket/Ward Melville), and Stefan Swedlund (Randolph, NJ) each provided two goals for Cortland. 
 
Nicky Miltenberger (Ridge/Longwood) won 15-of-17 faceoffs and Chad Bowen (Yorktown) won 8-of-10 faceoffs, as the Red Dragons finished 24-of-30 on faceoffs as a team. Miltenberger also scooped up eight ground balls and scored his first goal of the season. 
 
Tucker Macknik (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) led the Cortland defense with three caused turnovers and eight ground balls, while AJ Surian (Bay Shore) added three caused turnovers. Charlie Falowski (Redding, CT/Joel Barlow) made eight saves and allowed only six goals in 51:27 of game action. Jack Lucici (Orchard Park) allowed just one goal and stopped eight shots over the final 8:33. 
 
Kyle Rosenberger finished with three goals and an assist to lead Nazareth, while four other Golden Flyers scored a goal. Nicholas Hinck and Connor Fundis each had three caused turnovers, and Hinck finished with a team-high six ground balls. Sven Habitzreuther took the loss for Nazareth, allowing nine goals and making six saves in the first half.
 
Eli Volk (Alamo, CA/San Ramon Valley) opened the scoring just over five and a half minutes into the first quarter with his third goal of the season, but Nazareth quickly responded with a man-up goal, taking advantage of a tripping penalty on the Red Dragons to tie the score at 1-1. 
 
Cortland then closed the quarter with five consecutive goals, with Swedlund scoring twice, Miltenberger winning a faceoff and driving right to cage from midfield to score a goal, and Stoecker and Neeson each tallying a goal in the run.
 
Each team scored three goals in the second quarter, with Red Dragon goals coming from Nagengast, James Violi (East Islip), and Kavanagh, to give Cortland the 9-4 edge into halftime. 
 
Rosenberger scored the opening goal of the second half for the Golden Flyers just over four minutes into the third quarter to pull Nazareth to within four goals. Cortland immediately responded with a second run of five straight games, with goals by Stoecker and Nagengast bookending three consecutive goals by Neeson in just 1:28 of game action midway through the frame.
 
Nazareth scored another man-up goal less than two minutes into the fourth quarter, but Cortland once again had an answer with five straight goals in 4:07 of game time. Kavanagh found Patrick O'Doherty (Lynbrook) for his second goal of the season in transition, before Kavanagh scored three straight goals over 1:10 of game action for his 12th, 13th, and 14th goals of the year. Jack Skarren (Long Beach) finished up the Cortland scoring run with his first goal as a Red Dragon in transition. 
 
Lucidi entered the game in goal after Skarren's tally with 8:33 remaining. The Golden Flyers were able to net a goal on the first shot that Lucidi faced, but the sophomore was perfect on the final five shots on goal from Nazareth. Nazareth's Zac Isaac also made four saves in goal over the final 7:57 of scoreless action.