Richmond, Va. (February 23, 2016)--The Mount St. Mary's men's lacrosse team dropped a hard-fought game at Richmond, 9-6, on Tuesday afternoon.  Bubba Johnson paced the Mount with three assists as six different players scored goals.

The Mount (1-2) outshot Richmond, 26-17, in the game, but Richmond goalkeeper Benny Pugh made 13 saves to help his team earn the win.

Richmond (3-0) took control of the game early, taking a 6-1 lead with 4:05 left in the first half.  After the Spiders scored just 16 seconds into the game, the Mount's Mark Hojnoski scored a man-up goal to even the score with 10:33 left in the opening quarter.  Richmond countered on a Ryan Lee extra-man goal just 44 seconds later to make it 2-1.

The Spiders scored the first four goals of the second quarter, including three in a span of 1:42 to grab a five-goal advantage.  The Mount quickly responded, scoring three times over the final 3:46 of the half to cut the deficit to 6-4.

Timothy Mangan's first career goal with 3:47 left in the half started the rally.  The Mount won the ensuing face-off, and Mike Moynihan converted a Johnson pass just nine seconds later to make it 6-3.  Ryan Lamon's goal with 1:07 left in the half made it 6-4.  Johnson picked up an assist on Lamon's score.

Mount St. Mary's continued to rally on goals from Bennett Zaba and Chris DiPretoro to knot the score at 6-6 with 9:40 left in the third quarter.

Richmond's Dan Ginestro snapped the tie with 4:31 left in the third quarter.  The Mount had several scoring chances in the fourth quarter, but could not connect for a goal as Pugh made six saves in the final 15 minutes.  Mitch Goldberg scored just under three minutes into the final quarter to make it 8-6, and Teddy Hatfield's goal with just under three minutes left in the game provided the final margin.

Mike Celmer won 9-of-18 face-offs for the Mount in the game while Mangan had a team-high four ground balls.  Ginestro led Richmond with two goals and two assists.

Mount St. Mary's closes out its four-game road trip to start the season on Tuesday, March 1, at Georgetown.