The Mount St. Mary's men's lacrosse team defeated Wagner, 9-6, on Saturday afternoon for its second straight win. Seniors Joe Bello and Eric Seifert each had three goals to spark the Mount to the win.

Wagner (0-15, 0-8 MAAC) jumped to a 3-0 lead after one quarter of play behind goals from Anthony Camacho, Andrew Daly and Evan Shull. Brian Poissant had assists on the final two goals, including Shull's which came six seconds before the end of the quarter.

Mount St. Mary's (4-9, 4-4 MAAC) got on the board 5:17 into the second quarter on Bello's first goal of the game. Seifert converted a Michael Sciulli pass at the 5:57 mark to cut the Wagner lead to one, but Mike Hess took a pass from Shull and beat Mount goalkeeper Joe Zolezzi 28 seconds later to push the margin back to two.

The Mount answered by scoring the final two goals of the half. Ben Mundorf scored his 18th of the season with 3:26 left in the half to make it 4-3 before Dave Orban took a feed from Peter Kerwin to beat Wagner goalkeeper Ian Gallagher to tie the game at 4-4 at the half.

Seifert gave the Mount its first lead of the contest 1:47 into the second half, but the Seahawks fought back on a Ryan Martin tally to tie the game with 5:13 left in the third quarter. Bello countered with his second goal of the game to send the Mount to the final quarter with a 6-5 advantage.

Seifert and Bello then connected on back-to-back scores to give the Mount an 8-5 lead. Wagner's Brian Poissant cut the deficit to 8-6 with 8:16 remaing, but the Mount defense held on from there.

Senior Nick Jackson's first goal of the season with 22 seconds left on a long pass from goalkeeper Zolezzi put an exclamation mark on the win. It was Zolezzi's first career point.

Bello and Seifert each had three goals to pace the Mount while Orban finished with a goal and an assist. Zolezzi made nine saves to earn the victory in the cage. Six different Wagner players scored in the game with Poissant leading the team with three points (1g, 2a). Gallagher kept the Seahawks in the game in the second half, making 12 of his 18 saves in the final 30 minutes.

The Mount outshot Wagner 47-30 in the game, including 40-22 over the final three periods. The Mount held a 35-29 advantage in ground balls and forced 29 Wagner turnovers in the game.

The Mount closes out the 2007 season on Monday when Johns Hopkins visits Waldron Family Stadium for a 4:00 p.m. game.