North Adams, MA - Northern Vermont University-Lyndon took a 2-1 lead just over eight minutes in to Wednesday evening's men's lacrosse game at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.  The host Trailblazers responded by scoring the next 15 goals and went on to claim a 23-4 North Atlantic Conference victory.  MCLA picked up their first NAC win of the season and improved to 6-8 overall.  Lyndon fell to 1-6 on the season and 0-6 in conference.

Lyndon's Bodhi English (Livermore, CA) scored the game's first goal just over three minutes into the game.  After MCLA's Johnny Hebert tied things, English scored again to make it 2-1, Hornets.  The Trailblazers responded with five goals in the final six minutes of the opening quarter to take a 6-2 lead.

MCLA scored six unanswered goals in the second quarter and the first four goals of the third quarter to build a 16-2 lead.  Alex Reed (Woodstock, VT) broke the MCLA run with a goal assisted by Foster Smallman (Beverly, MA) at the 5:59 mark of the third quarter.  The Hornets couldn't build any momentum, however, as they could only manage another Reed goal late in the final quarter, while the Trailblazers tacked on seven more scores.

Boden Dock scored seven goals to lead MCLA.  Hebert and Jaquan Chinnis added four goals each.  Matt Ortiz recorded a game high 15 ground balls and won 25 of 27 faceoffs.  Isaiah Terrill (Barre, VT) had four ground balls and three caused turnovers for Lyndon.

The Hornets will play theri final scheduled regular season game this Saturday when they travel to Husson University for a 1:00 pm contest.