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DALLAS -- Junior attackman
Joe Jacobs-Ferderbar scored four goals and added two assists and senior goalie
Todd Dermody made 20 saves for Nazareth Wednesday as the Golden Flyers defeated Bowdoin in men's lacrosse, 11-4, in a non-conference game played the Episcopal School of Dallas.
Nazareth, ranked 13th nationally, improved to 3-1 overall, while 12th-ranked Bowdoin dropped to 1-2.
Nazareth was in control most of the game with a 5-1 scoring advantage in the second quarter proving decisive. The score was tied 2-2 after a goal by Bowdoin's Russell Halliday early in the second quarter. Nazareth answered with eight straight goals between the second and third quarters to seize control.
Jacobs-Ferderbar broke the tie with a goal off an assist from
Mark DeCirce with 11:19 left in the second quarter. Jacobs-Ferderbar scored again unassisted 46 seconds later. Goals by
Erinn O'Hara, DeCirce and
Mike Cummings followed as Nazareth took a 7-2 lead at halftime.
Nazareth expanded its lead to 10-2 in the third quarter as junior midfielder
Scott Castle scored twice with the second goal coming off an extra-man assist from Jacobs-Ferderbar. Sophomore
C.J. Estes then assisted Jacobs-Ferderbar on Nazareth's 10th goal with just :14 left in the third quarter.
Halliday, who scored all four goals for the Polar Bears, scored twice early in the fourth quarter to bring Bowdoin to within 10-4, but DeCirce closed out the scoring with his second goal of the game off an assist from Jacobs-Ferderbar with 2:14 left.
Dermody, meanwhile, kept Nazareth in the game with a strong game in goal as 14 of his saves came in the second half.
The Golden Flyers play again Saturday against Western New England at 1 p.m. (EST) at Southern Methodist University.