Virginia Dominates Syracuse 21-15 to Capture 19th ACC Men’s Lacrosse Championship

Via the primary two seasons of Lars Tiffany’s tenure in Charlottesville, the Cavaliers recorded only one common season win towards an ACC opponent. 4 years later, Virginia simply put the ending touches on a 5-1 season within the ACC, incomes its second ACC Males’s Lacrosse Championship within the final three seasons. The magnitude of what Tiffany and his teaching employees have completed at UVA can maybe be greatest encapsulated by Virginia’s 6.0 common margin of victory within the 5 wins towards convention foes this season. Virginia concluded convention play with a cushty 21-15 victory at Syracuse on Saturday to safe this system’s nineteenth ACC title. 

Taking part in on the street on the soon-to-be-renamed Provider Dome, the Cavaliers left no query as to who’s the most effective workforce within the Atlantic Coast Convention this season. 

Syracuse’s Tucker Dordevic opened the scoring with an unassisted objective simply over a minute in to offer the Orange their first and solely lead of the sport. 9 seconds later, Connor Shellenberger discovered the again of the online to place UVA on the board. That sparked a 5-0 UVA run and the Cavaliers held a 6-3 lead on the finish of the primary quarter, with every of the six Virginia targets coming from a unique scorer. 

Syracuse minimize it to a one-goal margin on a Jacob Buttermore objective a couple of minutes into the second quarter, however UVA responded with one other scoring run, tallying six of the final seven targets of the half to take a 12-7 lead into halftime. 

Matt Moore, who returned from a lower-body damage that has saved him off the sector for the higher a part of the final three weeks, scored a objective and assisted on two extra within the second quarter. Moore completed with three targets and 4 assists within the sport. 

Petey LaSalla was a distinction maker on the faceoff x for the Cavaliers. After a tough begin that noticed him lose eight of the primary 11 attracts, LaSalla bounced again and ended up profitable simply shy of fifty% of the faceoffs, going 19/39 towards Syracuse’s Jakob Phaup. LaSalla additionally scored two targets and assisted on a 3rd, setting a career-high with three factors. 

LaSalla and Phaup basically cancelled out on the faceoff x, however Virginia gained the possession battle because of a 42-31 benefit in floor balls, an ideal 22/22 mark on clears, and 16 Syracuse turnovers, 11 of which have been brought on by Virginia. Quentin Matsui had three of the prompted turnovers and in addition collected two floor balls for the UVA protection. 

Syracuse scored the primary objective of the second half, however Virginia then rattled off six-consecutive targets to basically put the sport out of attain with greater than 20 minutes nonetheless left on the clock, as UVA constructed an 18-8 lead. 

Jeff Conner paced the UVA offense with 4 targets and three assists on simply six pictures. Conner additionally picked up two floor balls and prompted a turnover in what was a profession day for the senior midfielder. 

Xander Dickson tallied a hat trick and Payton Cormier, Connor Shellenberger, and Griffin Schutz every scored two targets for Virginia. 

The Cavaliers blitzed the Syracuse goaltenders with 53 pictures, 32 of which have been on cage. Harrison Thompson made 10 saves versus 16 targets allowed for the Orange and UVA switch Bobby Gavin allowed the opposite 5 targets and made only one save. Matthew Nunes didn’t have his greatest efficiency in between the pipes for Virginia, yielding 15 targets and making simply six saves, however a number of of Syracuse’s targets got here after the sport was out of attain and Virginia began to rotate in some bench gamers on the defensive finish. 

Jackson Birtwistle led Syracuse with 5 targets and Tucker Dordevic had a hat trick for the Orange, who dropped to 4-9 general on the season. 

Virginia is now 10-3 general and 5-1 in ACC play and the Cavaliers have clinched the 2022 ACC Males’s Lacrosse Championship after guaranteeing a first-place end within the convention when it comes to profitable share in ACC video games. 

Virginia concludes the common season again house at Klockner Stadium on Thursday, April twenty eighth at 6pm towards Lafayette. The Cavaliers will then await choice to the NCAA Event, which begins on Could 14th. 

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