AMHERST, Mass.—The Hobart lacrosse team fell into an early hole and never recovered, falling to 10th-ranked Massachusetts 13-7 at Garber Field this afternoon. The Statesmen slip to 4-6 overall, 0-5 in the ECAC, while the Minutemen improve to 8-2, 3-1.

Junior midfielder Chris David (Georgetown Prep/Silver Springs, Md.) scored twice for Hobart, while sophomore midfielder Nick Currie (East Corning/Corning, N.Y.) added a goal and an assist. Nine different UMass players scored goals, led by the three-point efforts of Sean Morris (2-1) and Rory Pedrick (1-2).

The Minutemen used the first quarter to race out to a 4-0 lead. UMass made it a 5-0 game less than a minute into the second quarter.

Red-shirt first-year David O’Quinn (Robinson/Burke, Va.) got the Statesmen on the board just over a minute later, finishing a feed from Currie. David gave Hobart back-to-back goals 58 seconds before halftime, to send the hosts into the break with a 5-2 lead.

The Minutemen netted back-to-back goals to start the second half to go up 7-2. The Statesmen made some noise, scoring three of the next four goals to trim their deficit to three, 8-5. Currie, David, and sophomore attackman Daryl Veltman (Salisbury School/Georgetown, Ontario) registered the Hobart goals spanning the third and fourth quarters, but UMass squashed thoughts of a comeback with five of the final seven goals.

Hobart senior goalie Mike DeSantis (Mountain Lakes/Mountain Lakes, N.J.) allowed six goals and made three saves in the first 32 minutes. First-year Brad Hester (Woodbridge/Woodbridge, Va.) allowed seven goals and made four stops in 25 minutes of relief work, while junior Brandon Baer (Locust Valley/Bayville, N.Y.) did not see a shot in the last three minutes of regulation. Doc Schneider turned away 13 Hobart offerings, while allowing six goals of Massachusetts.

The Statesmen return to action on April 18 when the Statesmen