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Abel Austin
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Oneonta ONEONTA 0-1, 0-0
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Winner St. John Fisher ST. JOHN 1-0, 0-0
Oneonta ONEONTA
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St. John Fisher ST. JOHN
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Oneonta ONEONTA 2 3 0 2 7
St. John Fisher ST. JOHN 6 6 7 4 23

Game Recap: Men's Lacrosse | | Mike Hogan, Athletics Communications Coordinator

Men's Lacrosse Clobbers Oneonta To Open 2026 Season

VICTOR, N.Y. – Sixteen players recorded at least one point as the St. John Fisher men's lacrosse team (1-0) clobbered SUNY Oneonta (0-1) 23-7 to open the 2026 season on Saturday at the Pinnacle Athletic Campus and Events Center. 

The Cardinals, ranked No. 20 by Inside Lacrosse to start the year, had nine players tally at least two points. Junior midfielder Robbie Salit and junior attacker Scott Bovard each had five points on three goals and a pair of assists. Freshman midfielder Hayden Lauer scored three goals and tallied an assist for four points. 

Thomas Hnis scored six of Oneonta's seven goals, and Jamie O'Neill tallied a game-high five assists. Fin Morris had the other Red Dragon goal. 

St. John Fisher senior All-American goalkeeper Tyler Manning made eight saves and earned credit for the victory. Junior Ian McIntyre played the fourth quarter and turned aside three shots. 

The Cardinals dominated on face offs, finishing 25-of-34 at the X. Senior Bryce Riffel went 13-of-16, while freshman Jonah Vormwald impressed in his collegiate debut with an 11-of-13 performance. Riffel recovered a team-high nine ground balls; Vormwald scooped up eight. 

How It Happened

The teams went back and forth in the early going, with the Cardinals striking first on goals from Salit and Bovard. Oneonta knotted the game up on two goals from Hnis, both of them assisted by O'Neill, in less than a minute. 

Fisher then ripped off five straight goals, with four coming in the last six minutes of the opening quarter, to take a 7-2 lead. Sophomore attacker Logan Welch, junior midfielder Sean Donaldson, sophomore attacker Tyson DeLisio, senior midfielders Lane Edinger and Nick Hauman accounted for Fisher's scoring during that run. 

Hnis briefly stopped the bleeding for Oneonta with this third goal of the half about a minute after Hauman's tally, but the Cardinals' offense resumed its heater a short time later. Bovard, Welch, Lauer and junior attacker Garrett Sutton scored in quick succession to make it 11-3. Morris and Hnis scored for Oneonta before halftime to make it a 12-5 game at the break. 

If Oneonta felt it had any chance of staging a comeback in the second half, the Cardinals certainly obliterated those hopes with an eight-goal run that bled into the early stages of the fourth quarter. Bovard, Salit and Lauer each scored twice during that stretch, while Edinger and freshman midfielder John Korczukowski added one goal apiece. 

The Cardinals topped off their scoring with two goals from freshman midfielder Darren Vogt and one from sophomore attacker Graham Kesselring. 

Game Notes

  • Five Cardinals scored their first collegiate goals: Kesselring, Korczukowski, Vogt (2), Welch (2) and Lauer (3). 

  • Bovard and Salit both set career-highs with their five points. Bovard's three goals also marked a career high. 

  • Fisher caused 16 turnovers in the contest. Freshman Connor Gray, sophomore Garrin Dougherty and seniors Eric Stoesser and Nick Augeri each forced two. 

Up Next

The Cardinals face Ithaca at 1 p.m. next Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Pinnacle Athletic Campus and Events Center.


 
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