Second Half Surge Sinks Pirates In Men's Lacrosse

Sunday, March 2

Hampton, Va.

5:00 PM

Hampton University

0-5

Mercyhurst

1-4

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Mercyhurst	5	5	6	6	22
Hampton	2	2	1	1	6

Photo by: BL Harewood

Second Half Surge Sinks Pirates In Men's Lacrosse

3.2.25 | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score

HAMPTON, Va. (March 2, 2025) … A 12-2 second half from visiting Mercyhurst helped propel them to a 22-6 win over Hampton in men's lacrosse action on a cold Sunday evening at Armstrong Stadium.

The first quarter saw Mercyhurst score the first four goals before Jonathan Angel blistered the net with his first goal of the game from a Zion Garcia feed at 6:45 mark to trail 4-1. The teams traded goals as Reed Shaw, Canyon Steverson and Sebastien West found the back of the net for Hampton with West's goal with 3:28 left in the half pulled Hampton to 7-4.

Mercyhurst then went on a four goal spurt as Jeremi Phoenix-Lebebvre, Ryan Mahoney and Ethan Landymore closed the half with goals and Josh Mills put them ahead 11-4 at the 13:36 mark of the third quarter with the first of his four second-half goals.

Angel scored his second marker of the game with 11:22 left to cut the deficit to 11-5. From there, Mercyhurst ripped off the next 10 goals as Sebastien West broke that streak with 6:20 left off a feed from Elijah Jean-Jacques to make the score 21-6.

West and Angel had two goals each for Hampton, while Zion Garcia, Jean-Jacques, Mamadou Meite and Darius Stanley added assists. Mills, Phoenix-Lefebvre and Landymore paced Mercyhurst (1-4) with four goals apiece.

Hampton (0-5) now hosts Detroit Mercy on Friday at 5 p.m.