NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Jeremy Tremblay (Orford, Québec) recorded his second-straight hat trick, but it wasn't enough to stop the visiting Rivier University Raiders as the Albertus Magnus College men's lacrosse team fell 19-8 on Saturday at home in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference contest on Celentano Field.

Tremblay recorded four total goals on seven shots with a ground ball and one caused turnover.

THE BASICS

FINAL: Rivier 19 | Albertus Magnus 8

RECORDS: Albertus Magnus (2-4, 0-2 GNAC) | Rivier (2-4, 1-1 GNAC)

BOX

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Connor Eck tossed in the first goal of the contest at 14:06 in the first quarter with an assist generated by Michael Zapatka to put the visitors quickly up, 1-0, before the Falcons answered with back-to-back goals taking their only lead of the game at 8:03, 2-1. Tremblay knotted the game at one apiece with twelve and a half minutes remaining in the opening period followed by a strike from Cooper Strecker (Chester, Conn.) four minutes later.
• Rivier tallied two more goals in the quarter to take a 3-2 lead followed by two quick Raider goals in the second would increase their lead to 5-2 over the Falcons. 
• Tremblay netted a pair of goals in a row to cut the visitors' lead to 5-4, with the second score off a successful faceoff and ground ball by DaKari Coleman (Norwalk, Conn.).
• Rivier grabbed four more goals scored by Zapatka, Alan Cozzolino, Sawyer Hall and Michael Ference all within four minutes of each other before Tremblay notched his third goal of the quarter with 3:14 left in the half.
• Shane Kelly (Madison, Conn.) quickly found the back of the net for Albertus coming out of the locker room to narrow the Raiders' lead to five before another Falcons' goal by Strecker, his second of the game, with 10 minutes left in the third period.
• The Raiders recorded eight more tallies across the last two quarters, broken up by another Kelly goal off the quick side pass from Kader Price (Walden, N.Y. ) at 12:45 in the fourth.

BETWEEN THE PIPES

Albertus

Nick Duryea (L, 1-1) 22 Shots | 11 Saves | 11 Goals Allowed

Dane Walsh 15 Shots | 7 Saves | 8 Goals Allowed

Rivier

Samuel Tibbetts (W, 1-1) 15 Shots | 7 Saves | 8 Goals Allowed

BY THE NUMBERS

SHOTS: Rivier 49 | Albertus 21

GROUND BALLS: Rivier 38 | Albertus 24

CLEARS: Rivier 7/8 | Albertus 9/10

MAN-UP: Rivier 1/1 | Albertus 0/8

TOP PERFORMERS

Albertus

Jeremy Tremblay 4 Goals | 7 Shots | 4 SOG | 1 Ground Ball | 1 Caused Turnover

Cooper Strecker 2 Goals | 4 Shots | 3 SOG

Shane Kelly 2 Goals | 2 Shots | 2 SOG

Rivier

Michael Zapatka 3 Goals | 1 Assist | 5 Shots | 3 SOG

Michael Ference 3 Goals | 1 Assist | 7 Shots | 6 SOG | 1 Ground Ball

Coby Mercier 3 Assists | 2 Shots | 1 SOG

NOTEWORTHY

Tremblay has notched at least two goals in his last five games and has scored in all six games for the Falcons. The first-year also recorded his second-straight hat trick.

UP NEXT

The Falcons remain at home for another league matchup against Norwich University on March 23 at 3 p.m.