Final Stats

Stony Brook, N.Y. - Senior Mike Rooney (East Islip, N.Y.) tallied career-highs of seven assists and eight points to lead the Stony Brook men's lacrosse team to a 10-9 win over Fairfield Saturday at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium.

Rooney accounted for five of his seven assists in the first half, including four in the first quarter.

Junior Chris Hughes (Oceanside, N.Y.) led the Seawolves (3-1) with three goals.

Junior Brody Eastwood (Victoria, British Columbia) finished with two goals.

Freshman Brandon Maciejewski (Penn Yan, N.Y.) earned his first collegiate win and made a career-high nine saves.

Colin McLinden led Fairfield (2-2) with three goals and four assists.

Quotes . . .
Jim Nagle
"I thought it was a good game. It was really good to pull away from a quality team like Fairfield, a 12-win team last year so it's a really important win for us. The guys have been working really hard and it's nice to come out on the right side today and get a big win."

"I thought the defense did a great job today. They helped one another. Ben Randall played well. Their two attackmen, #4 and #1 are two of the better dodgers and are upperclassmen, and Ben being a freshman did an outstanding job and then we helped to him too so it was a combination of Ben playing great and a team effort."

Chris Hughes
"I think it is real important for us. Like coach said earlier, we just kept working hard. We have been preaching since the fall to keep working hard no matter what happens so when they scored a goal to get within one, we weren't nervous or hesitant because we knew what we had been working towards."

Mike Rooney
"On offense we work on moving the ball a lot. We found some openings. Some were in transition. One was in transition where Brody got upfield some other things where other guys brought the ball down and i just passed it to somebody else for a shot."

By The Numbers
• Stony Brook scored a man-up goal for the fourth straight game.
• The Seawolves scored 10 goals on 24 shots. Fairfield posted nine goals on 38 shots.
• Junior Matt Schultz (Smithtown, N.Y.) and sophomores Alex Corpolongo (Purdys, N.Y.) and Jeff Reh (Sound Beach, N.Y.) also scored for Stony Brook. Schultz added an assist for his 23 multi-point game.
• Stony Brook scored five goals in the first quarter and never trailed after Reh's first-quarter goal.
• Fairfield won the face-off battle, 14-8.
• Eight of Stony Brook's 10 goals were assisted.

News & Notes
• The last Stony Brook player to record seven assists in a game was Chris Theofield against Providence on March 29, 1995.
• Stony Brook is 3-0 at home.
• The Seawolves are 15-1 when they hold an opponent to fewer than 10 goals under Jim Nagle.
• Rooney moved into fourth all-time in school history in career points (159).
• Stony Brook snapped a three-game losing streak to Fairfield.
• Fairfield was held to under 10 goals for the first time this season.

Up Next
Stony Brook will head upstate to face Marist on Tuesday, March 2at 7 p.m