NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Senior Vince D'Alto registered seven points on six goals and one assist, but the Boston University men's lacrosse program fell to Yale 17-14 on Tuesday evening at Reese Stadium.
 
BU (7-3) and Yale (4-4) were knotted at 3-3 after one quarter of play. However, a 7-1 edge in the second frame built a Bulldog lead that held the rest of the way. Yale led by as many as eight.
 
The Terriers had eight different goal scorers on the day, including two from graduate student Timmy Ley, who became the first in program history to reach 200 career points. Senior Louis Perfetto and sophomore Zach Travaglini each recorded three points, with the former dishing out three assists.
 
Senior Conor Calderone paced BU with six ground balls, and won 10 faceoffs. Perfetto, senior Roy Meyer, and junior Dane DeGoler scooped up four ground balls, while graduate student Blake Phillips caused two turnovers. Graduate student Matt Garber collected 10 saves between the pipes.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Yale struck first 1:57 into the game, but senior Thomas Niedringhaus responded on the next Terrier possession with a roll dodge that created space for BU's first goal, tying the game at 1-1.
• Trailing 3-1, D'Alto worked around a pick to the left of the goal and beat Yale goalie Jared Paquette to cut the deficit to one with 9:48 left in the opening frame.
• Ley tied the game at 3-3 with 7:48 to go on the extra-man opportunity, receiving a feed from Travaglini and tucking his shot into the upper-left corner of the net.
• The Bulldogs ignited the second quarter with four-consecutive goals to take a 7-3 lead.
• DeGoler helped break BU's scoring drought, dispossessing Leo Johnson and finding D'Alto in transition for a goal that brought the Terriers within three with 3:34 until halftime.
• Yale responded with three goals in under 20 seconds from that point to take a 10-4 advantage into halftime.
• The Terriers tallied the first goal of the second half, as D'Alto's shot next to the left post found its way in to give the senior a hat trick and bring BU within 10-5 just 3:09 into the third.
• Despite Yale scoring on its next possession at the 10:44 mark, the Terriers answered nine seconds later with senior Walker Ker finding D'Alto for a goal that once again cut the gap to five.
• Meyer made it 11-7 in Yale's favor as the clock read 6:15 in the third, BU's second-straight goal.
• On a man-up chance with under a minute to play in the third, Travaglini found D'Alto to make it a four-goal game again. However, Johnson answered for Yale with 19 seconds on the timer to give the home team a 13-8 advantage heading to the final quarter.
• Yale opened the fourth with a goal, but Travaglini went top-shelf with 10:29 remaining for a five-point Terrier deficit.
• After the Bulldogs scored three-straight for its largest lead of the day, Perfetto fed junior Tommy Bourque in front, and Bourque faked out Paquette for his 14th goal of the year, making it 17-10 with 7:25 to go.
• Ley potted his 200th career point on his second goal of the day, coming with 6:24 on the clock. That brought the Terriers within six.
• As the timer rolled under four minutes, senior Patrick Morrison found classmate Donnie Howard open near the right sideline. The latter stepped into a shot that pinballed into the upper-left corner for his first of the season.
• With 41 seconds to play, D'Alto buried his final goal of the evening just outside the crease, cutting the gap to 17-13.
• Morrison tallied his first-career goal with 4.9 seconds remaining, scoring in transition to make it five-consecutive Terrier goals to cap the evening.

 
GAME NOTES

• Ley has notched 200 points in 57 career games.
• D'Alto matched his season-high with the six goals, which he also accomplished on March 18 against Holy Cross. He now has 188 career points across 42 games.
• Morrison scored the first goal of his collegiate career, coming in his 38th appearance.
• Howard found the back of the net for the first time since the 2022 Patriot League Championship game against Army West Point.
• Garber has made 10 or more saves in three of his last four contests, and five times this year.

 
UP NEXT

• BU resumes Patriot League action when it hosts No. 13/13 Loyola Maryland on Saturday (April 15).
• Opening faceoff is set for 12 p.m.