Kyle Reese scored two goals and Phil Fraher had two assists in the Misericordia University men's lacrosse team's  13-7 loss to DeSales, Wednesday night at Mangelsdorf Field.

Andrew Reynolds added a goal and had 10 groundballs and 14 face-off wins.

Lane Kocovsky, Nick Kenna, Chris Fleming and Patrick DeMichele added goals for the Cougars.

John Tierney had three ground balls and two caused turnovers.

Matt Beck made nine saves over the final 41 minutes in goal.

Misericordia opened the game with two shots off the crossbar in the first two minutes, but DeSales regrouped and scored four goals over the final 10 minutes of the opening period to take a 4-0 lead.

Kyle Reese scored twice in a 30-second span to cut the deficit in half early in the second quarter.  He whipped a shot under the crossbar from the right win at 13:34 and bounced in a shot from the same spot at 13:08.

The Bulldogs answered with a pair of goals before Patrick DeMichele placed a shot inside the right post to pull MU within 6-3 midway through the second quarter.

DeSales went up 7-3 with 5:29 left in the period and Beck made a nice save as the first half expired.

After DeSales scored to open the third quarter, Fleming came from the behind the net to make it 8-4.  But the Bulldogs scored off the ensuing face-off and stretched their lead to 10-4 early in the fourth quarter.

Reynolds whipped a shot under the bar from the left wing, but DeSales responded with two goals to take a 12-5 lead with 4:59 to go.

Michael Iglio found Kocovsky along the end line and he fired a shot into the upper right corner to get MU within 12-6.

Nick Kenna scooped up a ground ball in front of the DeSales net and closed out the scoring with 1:52 to play.

Misericordia is 6-4 overall and 1-1 in the MAC Freedom and will travel to Eastern, Saturday.