Score: No. 19 UAlbany 11, No. 20 Siena 9
  
Location: Tom & Mary Casey Stadium in Albany, N.Y.
   
Records: No. 19 UAlbany (10-8, 4-2 America East) | No. 20 Siena (11-5, 7-1 MAAC)
   
Short Story: The University at Albany men's lacrosse team defeated Siena, 11-9, in the NCAA Tournament Opening Round to advance to the First Round for the second consecutive season. The Great Danes jumped out to an early lead and held off a late push from the Saints, using three man-up goals and a five-point performance from Silas Richmond to secure the win.
 
Coach Scott Marr: "What can you say? What an unbelievable night for the Capital Region. With this being the first time that Siena and UAlbany have met, in any sport, in an NCAA Division I Tournament game, it lived up to the hype. I'm really proud of my team for sticking with it and playing for the full 60 minutes and grinding it out. I'm also proud of Liam [Gleason], Timmy [Cox], and Derrick [Eccles] and their team for getting to this point and putting up an unbelievable fight."
  
Key Stat Lines  

• Silas Richmond led UAlbany with five points, scoring two goals and dishing out three assists.
• Ryan Doherty recorded a hat trick with three goals on six shots.
• Amos Whitcomb and Jackson Palumb each finished with one goal and one assist, both scoring during man-up opportunities.
• Koleton Marquis added one assist and picked up three ground balls.
• Alex Pfeiffer, Jacob Moran, Ben Wimmer, and Parker Emmett each contributed one goal.
• Daniel Kesselring tallied one assist and picked up one ground ball, while also drawing a penalty.
• Max Neeson led the team with five ground balls and added one caused turnover.
• Rocco Mareno went 13-for-20 on faceoffs and picked up seven ground balls.
• Jacob Smith collected four ground balls and caused one turnover.
• Brady Smith made 11 saves in net, finishing with a .550 save percentage to help seal the win.

 
How it Happened:  

• Ryan Doherty sparked UAlbany's offense early with back-to-back goals, both assisted by Silas Richmond, less than a minute apart to give the Danes a quick 2-0 lead.
• Jacob Moran added to the run with a finish from Koleton Marquis at 9:18, making it 3-0 before Siena got on the board.
• The Saints answered with goals from Pratt Reynolds and Jack Cavaioli, cutting the deficit to 3-2 midway through the first quarter.
• UAlbany responded with three straight unassisted goals—Alex Pfeiffer at 5:24, Silas Richmond at 2:02, and Ben Wimmer with 27 seconds left—to take a 6-2 lead after one.
• Conor Hufnagel opened the second-quarter scoring for Siena with an unassisted goal at 8:18.
• Parker Emmett pushed the margin back to four for the Great Danes, scoring off a Richmond assist with 6:32 left.
• Reynolds and Patrick Radomski each tallied late goals for Siena, both assisted by Ryan McCarthy, to trim the UAlbany lead to 7-6 at the break.
• Hufnagel tied the game at 11:17 in the third quarter off a pass from Travis Fry, but UAlbany responded with a pair of man-up goals just 11 seconds apart.
• Doherty netted his third of the day on a feed from Jackson Palumb, and Palumb followed with a strike assisted by Amos Whitcomb to put the Danes up 9-7.
• Fry brought Siena back within one with a man-up goal in the final seconds of the quarter, making it 9-8 entering the fourth.
• Whitcomb struck early in the final frame with a man-up goal assisted by Daniel Kesselring, and Richmond followed with his second unassisted tally to extend the lead to 11-8.
• Hufnagel capped off his hat trick with a goal at 4:41, but the Danes locked down defensively to close out the 11-9 victory.

 
Next: With the win, the Great Danes advance to the NCAA First Round for the second consecutive year. UAlbany will take on top ranked Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., this Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. Stay up to date with UAlbany men's lacrosse by following the team on X (@UAlbanyMLax) and Instagram (@ualbanymlax) for all of the latest news and highlights throughout the year.