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Men’s Lacrosse Stays Perfect with Victory Over Heidelberg

Jake Nanosky (Photo Courtesy of Steve Schuster '21)
Jake Nanosky (Photo Courtesy of Steve Schuster '21)

BEREA, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University men's lacrosse team remained undefeated with a 30-4 non-conference victory over Heidelberg University on the Tressel Field inside the George Finnie Stadium.

BW (4-0), who has scored 61 goals in the last two games, was led by freshman attacker Jake Nanosky (Medina) and freshman midfielder/attacker Keaton Trout (Pickerington /North) as the duo each put up five goals.  Nanosky scored a career-high five goals and added a career-best tying three assists for a career-high eight points.  Trout recorded a career-high four goals and added one assist for a career-best five points.

In addition, freshman attacker Zakary Kroeger (Cincinnati /Archbishop Moeller) tallied a career-best four goals and added one assist for a career-best five points.  Freshman midfielder/attacker Keaton Trout (Pickerington /North)

Heidelberg (0-4) got goals from senior attacker Alex Brudner, freshman midfielder Michael Stiemly, senior defender Chris Storrs and senior midfielder Liam Weavers.

For the second straight game, the Yellow Jackets scored 10-plus goals in the opening the quarter as they put an 11-0 spot up on the scoreboard.  Kroeger scored four goals with his last coming with just 37 seconds left for the 11-0 advantage.  Nanosky scored two goals and assisted on two others.  Sophomore attacker/midfielder Kyler Byerly (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) and freshman attacker Gunner MacMillan (Henrietta, N.Y. /Rush Henrietta) also contributed two goals apiece.

BW kept things rolling in the second quarter as it tacked on seven more goals to push the lead to 18-0 at the intermission.   The Yellow Jackets were led by the hat trick in the quarter by Jake Nanosky with his last coming at 1:42 mark to extend the lead to 17-0.  BW also got tallies from sophomore midfielder Olin Ferguson (Tulsa, Okla. /Booker T. Washington), MacMillan, senior midfielder Ethan Miller (Delaware/Hayes) and senior All-OAC and Academic All-OAC midfielder Nick Nanosky (Medina).

In the third quarter, the Yellow Jackets opened the scoring at the 8:44 mark when Ferguson scored off the assist from Byerly to extend the lead to 19-0.  The Student Princes ended their two-game and 82-minute scoreless streak when Brudner found the back of the cage at 7:41.   BW closed the quarter on a 6-0 run to take the 25-1.  During the run, the Yellow Jackets got scores from Trout, freshman attacker/midfielder Rhys Leach (Canton/GlenOak), sophomore attacker Kaleb Delaney (Buffalo, N.Y./Akron), junior Academic All-OAC midfielder John Schulte (Grosse Point, Mich./South), senior Academic All-OAC midfielder Carson Howatt (Dexter, Mich) and the last from Ferguson as time expired.  

BW opened up the final quarter scoring when Trout scored his second goal of the game to make the score 26-1 at the 13:03 mark.   Heidelberg scored its second goal of the game when Liam Weavers found the back of the cage at 13:03.  The Yellow Jacket upped their lead to 28-2 on goals from Delaney and Trout with the last coming at the 11:23 mark.  The Student Princes got their third goal of the contest when Storrs scored his first goal of the season at 6:42.  BW responded with Trout's fourth goal at the 5:10 mark.  The Student Princes found the back of the cage at the 4:03 mark off the score from Stiemly. The Yellow Jackets closed out the scoring when Trout scored his fifth at 2:14.

BW is back in action on Saturday, March 20 when it travels to Ada for an OAC game against Ohio Northern University inside Dial-Roberson Stadium at 1 p.m.  The Yellow Jackets return home to the friendly confines of Finnie Stadium on Saturday, March 27 when it hosts the first game of a men's and women's lacrosse OAC doubleheader against Otterbein University at 1 p.m.