WILKES-BARRE, PA (March 29, 2025) -- The King's College men's lacrosse team dropped Alvernia University 14-6 on Saturday afternoon. The Monarchs improve to 1-7 heading into conference play and the Golden Wolves drop to 6-3. Ryan Dolphin earned a career milestone of 100 ground balls in the win.
 
King's opened the first half with four straight goals thanks to Ryan Lynch and Ben Spencer with 7:51 remaining of the first quarter. Alvernia gained control at 4:37 and after several shots, the Golden Wolves found the back of the net at 3:07. The Monarchs stayed in enemy territory for the remainder of the quarter with a 4-1 lead.
 
Matt Dellapi secured a faceoff win to start the second quarter and help Spencer find Grant Parshall at 14:11 for a King's goal. From then on, the Monarchs found several shot opportunities, but the Alvernia defense was not going to make it easy. At 7:14 , Spencer earned a hat trick, but the Golden Wolves responded with their own goal at 5:40. After trading shots, King's capitalized on a man-up opportunity and Ryan Lynch earned his own hat trick at 3:53. Heading into halftime the Monarchs had a 7-2 lead.
 
After a turnover by Alvernia, Spencer netted the first goal of the second half at 12:42. Ryan Rickards produced a timely save to help push King's to a successful clear and add another tally to the scoreboard from Ryan Lynch at 10:34. Though the Golden Wolves answered back with a goal soon after. The teams went back-and-forth for the next 10 minutes before Alvernia connected with another goal at 0:11. Dellapi won the faceoff right after and found Lynch to have the last goal of the quarter at 0:05 to gain a 10-4 cushion.
 
The fourth quarter was a battle as the two opponents traded points in the first 10 minutes as the Monarchs saw Brenden Lynch and John Wall produce goals for the squad. Wall went on to score back-to-back tallies to also have a hat trick for the afternoon with 0:29 left of play. Billy Beggs iced the game with a caused turnover and King's celebrated a 14-6 victory in McCarthy Stadium.
 
The Monarchs ended with 52 shots, 16-19 clears, 68 ground balls, nine caused turnovers, and 18-23 faceoffs. Ryan Lynch fueled the offense with six points on five goals and an assist. Spencer also had six points on four goals and two assists. Wall was right behind with three goals, an assist, and five ground balls. Brenden Lynch and Parshall each produced three assists. Dellapi went 16-19 in faceoffs with nine ground balls. Josh Hilpp picked up nine ground balls and went 2-3 in faceoffs. Rickards had nine saves in goal.
 
Alvernia's James Sparacio produced two goals, five ground balls, and two caused turnovers. Charles Oberman dished out three assists and Ethan McManus had two. Dane Sabarese had a team-high of eight ground balls and 18 saves between the posts.
 
King's will open their conference schedule on the road on Tuesday, April 1^st at 7 p.m. against Misericordia.