STANDISH, ME - The Monks (0-7) were defeated 10-7 by the visiting Thomas College Terriers in the first lacrosse game ever played on the campus of Saint Joseph's College on Tuesday afternoon. FY Tokunbo Amosun (Gardiner, ME) scored three goals, including the first marker of the game, and goalkeeper SR Brendan Dyer (New Gloucester, ME) recorded 18 saves in the loss.

Amosun scored the first goal of the game and first ever on a SJC field, a man-up tally, at the 9:51 mark to give the Monks a 1-0 lead. Thomas fired back with four unanswered goals to take a 4-1 lead going into the second quarter.

St. Joe's drew closer to the Terriers when Amosun notched his second goal of the game 1:18 into the second quarter. Thomas countered with goal to take a 5-2 lead before FY Kody Peckham (West Gardiner, ME) took a pass from SR Tyler Arsenault (Kennebunk, ME) to make it a two-goal game at the 8:16 mark of the second. The Terriers fought back to score two minutes later to regain a 3 goal advantage, 6-3. Amosun and SO Luke LaFreniere (Alton, NH) both scored goals in the waning minutes of the first half to bring the Monks within one score of tying the game and make the score 6-5, Terriers, going into the intermission.

The Monks and Terriers exchanged a pair of goals in the third period as Arsenault and FY Elliot LaMarre (Raymond, ME) both netted goals for the Monks to hold the Terriers to a one goal advantage, 8-7, going into the final quarter. LaMarre's tally was of the man-up variety.

The Monks held up their end of the bargain in the fourth quarte but were unable to find the back of the net. St. Joe's outshot the Terriers 12-10 and forced TC goalkeeper Josh Collelo to make 6 saves, many at close range. Luke LaFreniere had two great scoring chances during a man-up opportunity late in the quarter only to come up empty-handed after great saves by Collelo. Thomas added two goals in the fourth to make the final score 10-7.

For St. Joe's, Tokunbo Amosun netted a hat trick and five shots on goal, Kody Peckham tallied a goal and an assist, Elliot LaMarre scored a goal, collected 4 groundballs and won 6 faceoffs, Tyler Arsenault notched a goal, 2 assists and won two faceoffs, Luke LaFreniere netted a goal, steered 5 goals on net and collected 7 groundballs and FY Lucas Ward (Raymond, ME) collected 6 groundballs in the loss.

For Thomas, Kolby Peckham scored three goals and placed 10 shots on net and goalkeeper Josh Collelo made 11 saves in the victory.

St. Joe's will host Lyndon State College on Saturday, April 19th at 1:00 PM.