BRIDGEWATER, Va. — The Bridgewater College men’s lacrosse team’s season came to an end following a 16-10 loss to the No. 7 seed, Shenandoah, in the ODAC Tournament First Round game played at the Jopson Athletic Complex on Sunday morning.

Final Score: Shenandoah 16, Bridgewater 10
Records: Bridgewater 8-8, Shenandoah 9-9 (Shenandoah advances to the ODAC Tournament Quarterfinals)

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Hornets got off the bus ready to go as they jumped out to a 3-0 lead midway through the first quarter. The visitors had traveled to Virginia Wesleyan just yesterday to finish their regular season prior to traveling to Bridgewater for an 11 am start time. The Eagles got on the board after a goal from Chris Martel at the 5:47 mark to make it 3-1. Zachary Heiderman and Logan Clingerman went back-to-back to get the Hornets up 5-1, but Martel registered his second of the game off a Trevor McClelland assist, to set the score at 5-2 following the first period of action.

• Hayden Gourley went five-hole to start off the second quarter, but the momentum quickly shifted again as Jake Green scored for SU just 35 seconds later off a face off win. Tyler Held who finished with five goals, scored his second to make it a 7-3 game. Luke Wendler used an assist from Connor McLean to keep the Eagles in the game with a three-goal deficit but Shenandoah scored four unanswered goals to end the half with a 11-4 lead.

• In the third quarter, Martel opened the scoring with his third of the day less than a minute into the period. The only other score of the quarter came seven minutes later from the Hornets as the visitors maintained a 12-5 edge through 45 minutes of play.

• The scoring ramped up in the final quarter of action as Held and Martel recorded goals nearly 30 seconds apart to make it 13-6. The Hornets scored twice in two minutes, including a man-up score, 15-6, as Martel added another milestone to his growing list of achievements becoming the third player in team history to reach 200 career points with his fifth goal of the contest on an assist from Drew Huber with 7:28 to go in the game.Huber found Wendler in open space 80 seconds later before Martel and Wendler each scored once more to get to the final tally of 16-10.

GAME STATS
• Martel needed five points to hit 200 for his career and he did so in a very Martel fashion of registering six goals. He leaves Bridgewater atop the goal scoring leaders in the team’s record book, as well as third in team history with 201 points (174 goals).

• McLean, just two days after he broke the team’s all-time point scoring mark added two more assists to his program career and single-season record marks. He leaves the Crimson & Gold with 222 career points off 98 goals and 122 assists.

• Wendler completed his stellar freshman campaign with a hat trick and an assist as he ended the season third on the team in goals and third in points. He also scooped up six ground balls.

• Gourley tallied the remaining goal for the Eagles in the loss, while Duber had a pair of assists as well. Jim Davis and McClelland pitched in a helper too.

• Defensively, Brennan McKeown forced three turnovers and snagged five ground balls in the last game of his first collegiate season.

• Samuel Sharps won nine face offs, caused two turnovers and grabbed four ground balls in the loss.

• Tyler Carney was called on to make 18 saves in a valiant effort between the pipes, while Mark Isabelle stopped 14 shots in the win.

• As a team, Shenandoah out shot Bridgewater 59-41 and had a 38-33 edge in ground balls. Both teams finished with 18 turnovers.

— BC Athletics —