Waterbury, CT – The Post University lacrosse team had nine different players score and won their first ever Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Tournament game as the Eagles edged No. 5 Dominican, 12-10 on Monday afternoon at LaMoy Field.

Post – seeded fourth in the tournament - is now 10-5 overall, while Dominican finishes its season at 5-11.

The Eagles appeared to take control early in the game, outscoring the Chargers 4-0 in the opening period. Tim Keefe got the Eagles on the board at the 12:49 mark rifling a shot from 20 yards out to make it a 1-0 game. Braedan Lockyer and Robbie McGrayne would then each score their first goals of the game just 40 seconds apart. First, Lockyer scored taking a shot over his defender to make it a 2-0 game.  McGrayne's came on a pass from Leighton Cooke, to make it a 3-0 game. Zack Gignac scored the first of his two goals with 35 seconds remaining in the period as he got knocked down while he was taking a shot on the right side of the net, making it a 4-0 game.

The Chargers wasted little time to get back in the game, scoring the first three goals of the period, including Cole Vencak, who scored at 13:55 followed by Zachary Souza just 56 seconds later. With the Eagles leading just 4-3 with 1:27 remaining, Jonah McNaughton – who is primarily a defender- scored his first goal of the season and second in his career on a shot from ten yards out, making it a 5-3 game going into the half.
The Chargers scored three of the first four goals in the third period, including two from William Gordon, the second one tying the game at 6-6 at the 6:30 mark. Cooke scored a goal sandwiched in between the three goals for the Chargers.

Post briefly took the lead back on a goal from Nicholas Steele, his third of the season nudging his defender out of the way for an opening and firing home his third goal of the season.

Dominican tied the game up one more time, but the Eagles closed out the quarter with goals from Ryan Denike and McGrayne just 49 seconds apart. On Denike's goal, Lockyer found him on the left side without a defender in sight and easily put the ball into an open net, putting Post back up, 8-7. On McGrayne's second goal of the game off a pass from Cooke to make it a 9-7 game.

Gignac scored his second of the game just 2:01 into the fourth period faking a shot at the goalkeeper at first then sneaking one by to make it a 10-7 game. The Chargers kept fighting back as Kyle Benedetto closed the gap with a goal before Lockyer scored his second of the game at 7:44. On the goal, he caught a pass while sprinting to the net from Steele, and made it an 11-8 game.

Once again, Gordon came through for the Chargers, scoring two straight to make it an 11-10 game with 4:40 remaining. However, Hayden Hindman and Heald connected with 1:02 remaining as Heald ran from around the net and found a seam to hit Hindman with the pass for the insurance goal to close out the game.

In net, Cole George stopped 12 shots for the Eagles.

With his two goals, Lockyer has 41 on the season, second in the CACC. Heald has 40 and McGrayne, 39. Cooke finished with two assists for the Eagles.

On the faceoff, Jaxon Holden was 14-for-23 and picked up eight ground balls. The Eagles had 32 groundballs to Dominican's 23.

Gordon finished with four goals and an assist for the Chargers.

Up next, the Eagles will take on top seed Georgian Court on Friday at noon at LaMoy Field as Post University will be hosting the semifinals and finals of the CACC Men's Lacrosse Tournament.