Box Score WORCESTER, Mass. – The Skidmore College men's lacrosse team parlayed a six-goal second quarter into a 7-6 road win over Clark University on Saturday.
 
The Thoroughbreds (1-4) withstood a second-half Clark (3-1) surge to give first-year head coach Patrick Hart his first collegiate coaching victory.  
 
Skidmore erupted for six goals in the second quarter to take a commanding 7-3 lead into halftime before holding on for the win.
 
Clark opened up the scoring when Nick Johnson netted his first mark of the game at 7:41.  Skidmore answered back as the first quarter wound down when Brock Bakewell notched his second goal of the season.
 
Johnson put the Cougars ahead, 2-1, when he collected his team-leading 10th tally of the year less than two minutes into the second quarter. Richie Davis evened the game a little more than a minute later when he deposited his first of the season for Skidmore.
 
The back-and-forth continued as Clark's Keegan Callahan dodged a defender and whipped home a marker, making the score 3-2.
 
Kevin Mulvey  scored back-to-back goals less than 20 seconds apart on assists from Jack Livecchi and Sean Fosse to give Skidmore the lead at 4-3, sparking a stretch of five unanswered goals in a four minute span.
 
Quinn Hawkins took over in the final 3:30 of the second, scoring a pair of goals and adding an assist on Thomas O'Toole's man-up goal with 28 seconds left in the frame.
 
The third period flew by and looked like it might be a scoreless quarter until Clark  got one with 23 seconds left, making the score 7-4 heading into the final 15 minutes.
 
A little less than four minutes into the quarter, Peter Christiansen registered an unassisted marker, bringing the Cougars to within two. Four minutes later, playing a man down after an illegal cross check penalty, Max Nyquis scooped up a groundball and fed Patrick Burke at midfield, who raced into the offensive end and scored, tightening the game at 7-6 with 6:53 to play.
 
Clark had several near misses in the final minutes, but Skidmore goalie Matt Diaco hung tough to preserve the win.
 
Diaco turned back 10 shots to earn the victory, while Mulvey and Hawkins each scored a pair of goals in their key second quarter run.
 
"I'm proud of the effort our guys gave on the defensive end to get our first win of the season," Hart said. "We played a well-coached team in Clark that controlled pace of play in the second half. Our defense and goalie Matt Diaco, stood tall with some big stops and penalty kills.
 
"We have to continue to improve our clearing and riding games and get more consistency out of our offensive production before a big non-conference game on Tuesday versus Hamilton and the start of Liberty League play."