Stony Brook, N.Y. – Monmouth University Men's Lacrosse never trailed, and goalkeeper Tommy Heller set a single-game program record with 19 saves on Saturday as the Hawks topped Stony Brook University Saturday, 11-6.
 
MU shut out Stony Brook in the first, with Matt Dollive and Burke Webb converting to make it 2-0. After an early goal in the second from Sean Ketchen made it 3-0, Stony Brook scored two in a row to cut it to 3-2. MU then went on a 6-1 run, including taking a 7-3 lead to the half in which seven different Hawks scored in the opening two quarters.
 
Monmouth opened the lead to 10-4 in the third on Jake Schneider's third goal of the day, and Brendan Dundas closed out the win with his second with 1:50 to go. Tommy Heller made 19 saves, including 10 in the second half.
 
Notes and Quotes

"It has been a great week for our program and this team. Have to first give a big shout out and thank you to all of our supporters making this past week's giving day the highest in our programs history!  It was such a great feeling taking the field this week knowing we have the support of our alumni, friends & families.
 
We have been improving over the last few weeks and even though we were on the wrong side of it last weekend we felt we had played well enough to win and that confidence showed today against Stony Brook. I'm sure after we review this game there will be a lot of guys to recognize for how they played but Coach Geison had the defense playing at a high level and Tommy Heller was great between the pipes today. Offensively it was a grind with the weather but we had another pretty balanced attack and it was awesome to see Jake Schneider have a day. As a group we are looking forward to getting back to work on Monday and now that we are in the conference portion of the schedule we expect a fight every time we take the field." – Head Coach Brian Fisher
 
-Tommy Heller set a program single-game record with 19 saves.
-Heller's 19 saves was the 22^nd game in the NCAA this season where a goalkeeper made 19 or more stops.
-Jake Schneider posted his first hat trick as a Hawk.
-Terrence Lacewell had a career best five ground balls.
-Jack Gertie had his fifth five-ground ball game of the season.
-MU won its first ever game over Stony Brook.
-Brendan Dundas posted his sixth straight multi-goal game.
-Monmouth won its first CAA game this season.
 
Numbers Crunch
-Monmouth was 24-25 on clears.
-Each team won 10 face offs.
-The Hawks made 19 saves to the Seawolves' four.
 
Up Next
-Monmouth heads to Hofstra Saturday at noon to take on the Pride.