The Misericordia men's lacrosse team lost a tightly contested game to Elizabethtown, 12-10, on a windy Wednesday afternoon at Mangelsdorf Field.

Kyle Reese and Brandon Winslow each had a goal and two assists. Both Chris Fleming and Jake Kocovsky had two goals, while Sean McSwiggan and Patrick DeMichele each scored once. Kocovsky won 11-16 faceoffs and picked up five ground balls.

The opening ten minutes was a back and forth affair with neither team finding a way to break through. Over the next three minutes, the Blue Jays struck twice to take a 2-0 lead. The Cougars would make it 2-2 by the end of the first quarter.

With under two minutes on the clock, Winslow leapt into the air to snag a loose ball and dished it to Reese on the left wing. He rifled the ball past the keeper into the right side of the net. A little over a minute later, Patrick Kellish passed the ball from behind the net to McSwiggan who caught the ball, eluded his defender and the shot the ball over the keeper to make it 2-2.

The second quarter started like the first, with neither team scoring over the first nine minutes or so before the Blue Jays scored a goal a man up to make it 3-2.

Winslow fired a goal in from the right side and DeMichele followed that up with a goal of his own from the right side thirty seconds later. With under four minutes left, Winslow came down the left side and fired a ball inside the right post past the keeper to make it 5-3.

Elizabethtown pulled one back to make it 5-4 before Kocovsky scored the final goal of the half with less than a minute to go, to make it 6-4. The Blue Jays scored with 11 seconds left to make it 6-5 at halftime. 

The Blue Jays took control in the third quarter, scoring six goals while holding MU scoreless to take a 11-6 lead going into the fourth.

Goals from Kocovsky, Fleming and Reese brought MU within two at 11-9 with just under eight minutes to go in the game.

Andrew Phillips won the proceeding faceoff, and MU had another opportunity. Elizabethtown was called for a cross check, so MU was a man up. DeMichele fired a shot off the post and Kocovsky had shot go wide. Reese passed it off to Fleming who ripped a low shot that beat the keeper and made it 11-10 with 4:47 to go.

The Cougars got two game-tying shots off, but the keeper stopped both.

Elizabethtown scored with under two minutes left to close the scoring.

The Cougars out-shot the Blue Jays, 39-29 and won 17 of 25 faceoffs.

The Cougars will open MAC Freedom play when they host Eastern, Wednesday at 7:00.