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GORHAM, Maine – The Eastern Connecticut State University men's lacrosse team has enjoyed notable success against the University of Southern Maine, winning all 25 matches against the Huskies heading into Saturday's Little East Conference match at Hannaford Field.
 
While five of the last 11 meetings between the programs have been decided by five goals or less, the 2026 edition of the series was a runaway from start-to-finish as Eastern (4-4, 2-2 LEC) rolled up the first 22 goals in a 24-2 rout that evens the team's overall and conference records and give the Warriors three wins in their last four matches.
 
In the all-time series, Eastern has won many of the decisions by double-digit goals, but none have been decided by more goals than Saturday since the Warriors recorded a 25-2 victory over the Huskies (3-8, 0-4 LEC) in the first (conference) meeting between the programs 25 years ago at Thomas Nevers Field.
 
Saturday, all 40 health roster players contributed to the win – Eastern's second straight away from home after three opening road losses --with 13 chipping in a goal or assist or both, and all four goalies seeing action for the second straight 20-goal win (Eastern was coming off a 21-1 triumph at Anna Maria College Tuesday)
 
As a team, Eastern won nearly twice as many ground balls (46-24) and more than twice as many faceoff  (four players combined for 16 wins on 29 attempts).
 
At the faceoff X, Nathan Tranquilli (North Branford) was 6-for-8, Gavin DeLucia (Uncasville) 4-for-8 and freshmen Jake Correia (East Lyme) 4-for-9 and Nicholas Morrison (Wethersfield) 2-for-4 as the Warriors improved their season winning percentage on faceoffs to 60.4 percent. All four are above .500 on the season.
 
Tranquilli (6), Correia (4) and defenseman Jacob Shook (Wallingford), with four, led the Warriors in ground balls, with Shook also topping all players with three caused turnovers, long stick Jacob Corso (Guilford) and midfielder Chris Ford (Hebron) both collecting two.
 
Offensively, Landon Mabb (Sun Prairie, WI), Warren Channing (Glastonbury) and Tanner Drobish (Wallingford) – ranking1-2-3 on the team in points this year – combined for 17 points. Matt had five goals, Channing moved to within one point of 100 career points with five goals and two assists and Drobish eclipsed 100 career points with a goal and four assists.
 
First-year midfielder Nyzaiah Smith (Southington) recorded his first collegiate points with two goals and two assists, Corso his first collegiate assist and senior midfielder Collin Falconer (Northbridge, MA) his first goal of the season.
 
Junior Gregory Hilinski (Shelton) evened his goalie record at 4-4 after departing with his team in front, 17-0, at halftime.  He made three saves. Sophomore Ryder Casady (Westerly, RI) stopped one shot over 12 minutes, sophomore Luke Solari (Warwick, NY) made two saves in 15 minutes and  freshman Patrick Markowski (Bay Ridge, NY) played the final three minutes without a save.
 
Eastern visits unbeaten LEC leader Western Connecticut (10-3, 4-0 LEC) Wednesday at 7 p.m. The Wolves, who have won three of this year's LEC matches by a total of seven goals,  have reached the LEC championship game four times in the last five years, winning twice.