Varian and Koita Lead Drexel Past No. 11 Georgetown, 15-10

Saturday, March 17

Vidas Field

1 p.m.

Drexel University

3-4

#11 Georgetown

6-1

Georgetown

Drexel

Photo by: Greg Carroccio

Varian and Koita Lead Drexel Past No. 11 Georgetown, 15-10

3/17/2018 4:18:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score

Philadelphia – Matthew Varian scored a career-high six goals and face-off man Jimmy Koita had a career day as Drexel defeated No. 11 Georgetown, 15-10. The Hoyas (6-1) came into the game as one of just three unbeaten teams in the nation, but Drexel scored seven straight goals in the second quarter to take a lead it would never relinquish. Drexel improved to 3-4 with the win.

Drexel went on a 7-0 run over a span of a little more than seven minutes to take control of the game. With the Dragons trailing, 4-2, early in the second quarter, Varian started the run with a pair of unassisted goals just 65 seconds apart. The Dragons took the lead for good at the 10:50 mark of the quarter when senior Jake O'Donnell tallied an unassisted goal, giving Drexel a 5-4 lead. The Hoyas were whistled for their third face-off violation on the ensuing draw, which put Drexel on the man-up. Freshman Charles Dumas extended the Dragons' lead with his first career goal, making it 6-4. With the teams at even strength, fellow freshmen Ryan Genord and Luke Stansfield scored three minutes apart later in the second. For Stansfield, it was his first career goal. The Hoyas were called for another face-off violation, and once again Drexel answered. O'Donnell found Varian for his third of the quarter to put Drexel ahead, 9-4. Georgetown finally broke its drought when Lucas Wittenberg scored his second of the game with 4:32 to play until halftime.

The Hoyas were able to cut the lead to three on two occasions in the third. Jake Carraway started the second half scoring before Varian answered with his fourth of the Craig Berge trimmed the lead to 10-7 with just 1:21 to play in the third, but Drexel won the next face-off and Matt Klinges fed Marshal King in transition just 17 seconds later for his seventh of the year. Koita then won the face-off for the Dragons and fought off a number of Georgetown defenders. He found an alley towards the net and fired home a rare shot, which found the far side and gave him his first career goal, putting Drexel up 12-7 at the end of the third. Varian kept the Hoyas at bay by adding the first two goals of the fourth as Drexel rebounded from a mid-week loss to pick up its first win against a top 20 team in 2018. Varian, who also had an assist in the game, finished with his second seven-point game of the season.

Koita won all six of his face off attempts in the first quarter as the Dragons maintained the edge in possession throughout the day. He finished the day 19-for-24 and grabbed a career-high 11 ground balls. King and Reid Bowering each scored twice for Drexel. Bowering scored both of his goals in the first quarter and now has 14 goals in his last four games. Chre Teitelbaum had another solid game in the cage for Brian Voelker's squad, turning aside 12 shots from the powerful Georgetown offense.

Carraway led the Hoyas with four goals. He scored twice in the final 30 seconds of the game. Daniel Bucaro finished with two assists and three points. Nick Marrocco made five saves for the Hoyas, who made their first visit to West Philadelphia since the 1990 season.

The Dragons play their final non-conference game of the season next weekend at Vidas Field. Drexel will host Providence in a rare Sunday game beginning at 1 p.m.