Richmond, Ind. – The Centenary lacrosse team was edged 12-11 on Wednesday afternoon by the Earlham College Quakers in a non-conference contest inside Darrell Beane Stadium.
The Gents (1-7) were starting their longest road trip of the season against the Quakers (4-3) as they will play for more road games this month. The Gents will face Trine University in Angola, Ind. on Friday at 2 p.m.
Wednesday's game marked the third all-time meeting between the Gents and Quakers as Earlham now takes a 2-1 series lead. Earlham won 14-12 in Shreveport last season and the Gents defeated the Quakers 11-7 in Richmond in the 2022 season.
Senior M Jordan Cook (Bryant, Ark.) led the Gents with four goals and freshman M Ethan Hewett (Bossier City, La.) scored three. Centenary also received one goal each from senior A/MF Mark Temple (Houston, Texas), sophomore MF Dominic Ogier (St. Louis, Mo.), senior LSM Ben Vazquez (San Antonio, Texas), and sophomore MF Seven Davillier (Shreveport, La.). Ogier and Temple each had two assists and Davillier and Hewett each had one.
Mark Resig (six) and Robert Gift (five) combined to score 11 of the Quaker's 12 goals with Jacob Bandfield scoring the other. Ryan Polack tallied three assists, Gift and Ben Atkins each had two, and Resig, Bandfield, and Braden Greeno recording one apiece.
Junior Dylan Miller (Shreveport, La.) played all 60 minutes in goal for the Gents and made 16 saves while Greeno went the distance for the Quakers and made 10 saves.
Gift's first goal gave the Quakers the lead at the 4:29 mark of the first quarter and Cook's first score, assisted by Davillier, tied the game at 1-1 with just 42 seconds left in the opening period. Ogier scored an unassisted goal early in the second quarter to give the Gents a 2-1 lead and Resig struck at the 11:35 mark to tie the game. Hewett, though, scored twice in a span of three minutes to give Centenary a 4-2 lead. Earlham, though, finished the half with three-straight goals to take a 5-4 lead at the half.
Cook and Davillier scored goals just 10 seconds apart early in the third quarter to give the Gents a 6-5 lead, but Resig scored three times in a row to help the Quakers regain the lead at 8-6 with 7:10 remaining in the period. Vazquez, Cook, Hewett, and Cook again scored four goals in a row for Centenary all in the final seven minutes of the quarter to give the Gents a 10-8 lead. Resig scored early in the fourth and Gift followed with three goals in a row for a 12-10 lead and Temple found the net with 1:16 left in the game to make it 12-11 but that was it as the Gents came up one goal short.
Centenary finished with 41 shots and 48 ground balls and went 21-29 on clears and won 14 of 27 face off's while Earlham took 43 shots, picked up 42 ground balls, went 23-32 on clears and went 13-27 on face offs.
See the complete Gents' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/mlax/2023-24/schedule
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