Score: #10 Yale 17, UAlbany 13
 
Location: Reese Stadium in New Haven, Conn.
 
Records: UAlbany (5-8) | Yale (8-3)
 
Short Story: UAlbany comes back to take the lead in the third but ultimately falls at #10 Yale 17-13.
 
Key Stats

• Corey Yunker scored five goals
• Jack Pucci scored twice with two assists
• Amos Whitcomb scored two goals
• Yale assisted on 15 of their 17 goals
• UAlbany won 38 ground balls to Yale's 26 

Head Coach Scott Marr: "I'm proud of our effort today.  Unfortunately, we came up short, but we were certainly right there.  We continue to make strides forward against good teams.  We just need to find a way to finish.  But with effort like today's, we will get over the hump when it counts."
 
How it Happened

• Yale opened the game on a 3-0 run lasting nearly the first five minutes of the first quarter.  Elijah Gash scored the Great Danes' first goal, running half the length of the field to cut the Bulldogs' lead to 3-1 with 8:29 remaining in the first.  Yale scored a minute-and-a-half later to go back up three.
• Jack Pucci and Amos Whitcomb scored back-to-back, 10 seconds apart, to close within one with 4:18 left in the quarter.  Yale rolled off the next two to take a 6-3 lead with just over two minutes to go, before Corey Yunker found the back of the net to close the Great Danes within two to start the second.
• Yale opened the second quarter on a 3-0 run, before UAlbany responded in-kind with their own three goal run to keep their deficit at two, 9-7, with 5:03 left in the first half.  Yale went up 10-7 with 3:30 remaining before Yuker scored again with 45 seconds left in the second to keep the Great Dane deficit at two at the break.
• Yale went up three just 16 seconds into the third quarter before Yunker scored back-to-back goals with 13:21 and 10:55 remaining in the third to close within one.  A brief scoring lull preceded Thomas Decker's goal with 6:29 remaining in the quarter to tie the game at 11.
• Jack Pucci scored a fourth-straight goal for the Great Danes, to take their first lead of the game, 12-11, with 4:09 remaining before the fourth quarter.  Neither team scored for the remainder of the third and the Great Danes took their narrow lead into the final period.
• The Bulldogs rallied to roll of four-straight goals to start the fourth quarter, tying the game with 13:38 remaining and retaking the lead with 12:55 remaining.  By the end of their run, they led 15-13.
• Darien LaPietro scored UAlbany's final goal of the game to keep pace with the Bulldogs, 15-13, with 10:06 to go.  Yale closed the game with two-straight goals to claim a 17-13 victory. 
• Yunker finished the game with five goals, while Pucci scored twice and added two assists.  The Great Danes held a significant advantage in ground balls over the Bulldogs, 38-26.  On the faceoff, Regan Endres went 16-32, though Yale finished with the overall advantage, 18-34.

Next: UAlbany hosts #13 Penn for the 2022 regular-season finale on April 30.  The team will hold a brief ceremony to honor the members of the 2022 senior class.