Box Score
MANSFIELD, Conn. --  The surging Western Connecticut State University men's lacrosse team had unanswered scoring runs of seven straight and eight straight goals and got points from 12 different players in remaining undefeated in the Little East Conference with a 20-7 victory over Eastern Connecticut State University Wednesday afternoon at Rick McCarthy Field.

Last year's Little East regular-season co-champion, WestConn (9-6, 6-0 LEC) rolled to its sixth straight win (all in the LEC) after losing six in a row (three of the losses by a total of six goals) to stiff non-conference competition. The Wolves have won the last eight matches in the all-time series with Eastern, which had claimed the first 17 in the series dating back to 2004.

Eastern (4-7, 1-5 LEC) has dropped its last four matches – all in the LEC – after winning its conference opener March 29 against Salem State University.

WestConn closed out the first quarter with two goals in the final 41 seconds and scored two in the final 17 seconds of the second quarter to move out to an 11-3 halftime lead.

Easter junior Warren Channing (Glastonbury) scored Eastern's first goal midway through the first quarter but the LEC leader in goals per match was kept off the board by the physical WestConn defense for the for the next 15 minutes and was shut out over the final 39 minutes.

WestConn graduate  student Jon Russack-Baker – the LEC leader in faceoff wins and ranked second in faceoff percentage – won 16 of 27 at the faceoff X and picked up a game-high 14 ground balls.

Led by junior midfielder Tristan McMahon (3-4-7), WestConn outshot Eastern by better than 2-to-1. Senior attack Matt Sweeney (1-3-4) and senior attack Julian Duque (4-0-4) both added four points for WestConn, whose 56-man roster ultimately wore down the Warriors.

Eastern sophomore Gregory Hilinski (Shelton) stopped 16 shots – equalling his second-highest total of the season.

The Warriors host the University of Southern Maine (2-12, 0-6 LEC) Saturday at 1 p.m. in their regular-season home finale before closing out the regular season April 25 at VTSU Castleton. USM is coming of Wednesday's 29-1 LEC loss at the University of Massachusetts Boston – its seventh straight setback.