MILTON, Mass. – The Curry College men's lacrosse team opened the 2021 campaign by topping visiting Emmanuel College, 20-10, on Saturday afternoon in a non-conference match-up at Walter M. Katz Field.

Ryan Castle (Boxford, Mass.) netted five goals on eight shots for the Saints. Drew Chant (Warwick, R.I.) and Colin Dickinson (Barre, Vt.) registered two each while Thomas Quigley (Marblehead, Mass.) rounded out the scoring with a single tally.  

Freshman Jack Dacey (Guilford, Conn.) netted a team-high five goals and added one assist. Seniors Matthew Scahill (Gales Ferry, Conn.) and Jake Stebbins (Colchester, Vt.) each had four goals and one assist. Junior Dane Hanson (East Providence, R.I.) added two goals and three assists, while freshman Albie DiBella (Norwell, Mass.) pitched in with a pair of goals. Andrew DeLeary (Wakefield, Mass.) pitched in with two goals and one assist.

Curry got out to a fast start in the first quarter, scoring the first four goals. Scahill netted the first two while Dacey followed with two of his own. Castle found the back of the net two straight times to cut the deficit in half, but Scahill capped the hat trick with an unassisted goal as the Colonels carried a 5-2 lead into the second period.

Curry scored the only four goals of the second quarter to go up 9-2. Stebbins, Dacey, and Scahill each found the back of the net unassisted while Hanson fed Dacey for a man-up goal to make it a 9-2 game at the break.

Emmanuel got as close as 13-8 in the second half before the Colonels responded with four straight tallies to break the game open. Freshman Connor Bryant bookended the spurt with a marker to give Curry a 17-8 advantage.

The Colonels outscored the Saints 3-2 for the remainder of the contest. Dacey added his fifth goal of the game with 3:52 to go and DiBella closed out the scoring with a marker with 48 seconds left for the 20-10 final.

Curry held a 59-34 edge in total shots and a 36-21 advantage in ground balls.

Curry freshman goalie Evan Falandys (Leominster, Mass.) played 56:20 of game time and made three saves to earn the victory. Randy Castle (Boxford, Mass.) was credited with the loss, converting 15 saves.

The five goals for Castle is a new career-high and also ties for the program-record for most goals in a season-opener, matching Kaile MacLean-Daley's total from Emmanuel's 14-7 win over SUNY Maritime in the 2013 season-opener.

Emmanuel's 10 goals is also the highest total in a season-opener since the 2015 campaign when the Saints posted a 13-12 win over Gordon to open the program's second straight GNAC championship campaign.

Curry will start Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) action at home against Wentworth on Saturday, March 27 at 1:00 PM. Emmanuel will make its 2021 home debut the same day against Johnson & Wales University in Great Northeast Athletic Conference action at 12:00 PM.

*Release courtesy of Curry College Athletic Communications