Sunday, April 25, 2010 - (Newton Center, Massachusetts) - Behind a four goal performance from junior Matthew Savage (Peabody, MA/Peabody), the Mount Ida College men's lacrosse team rounded out their regular season with a 17-3 victory over visiting Husson University Sunday afternoon on senior day to seal their perfect 9-0 regular season bid and the number one seed in the conference tournament with home field advantage starting May 1.  The Mustangs improve to 10-6 overall and remain perfect at 9-0 while the third seeded Eagles fall to 9-7, 7-2 in league play. 

The Mustangs had a shutout pitched through two quarters and exactly 35:07 of play scoring 13 consecutive goals.  Junior Paul Battapaglia (Clinton, CT/Morgan) started the charge for the hosts with the first three goals of the game, two on man-up opportunities, with two assists from freshman Nick Yacuzzi (Oakham, MA/St. John's) and another from sophomore Derek O'Reilly (East Setauket, NY/Ward Melville) for the 3-0 lead. 

Six more goals ensued for the Mustangs, three from Savage, two by junior Dan Harrington (Westford, MA/Westford Academy), and one from junior captain Derek Broughton (Peabody, MA/Peabody) leading 9-0 with five minutes to go in the first half.

Yacuzzi and senior Michael Simone (Dover, NH/St. Thomas Aquinas) finished off the half with a score apiece, both unassisted, leading 11-0 heading into the locker room at the break.

Mount Ida started the second half with two goals, another from Savage for his fourth of the game on a dish from senior Dan Kelley (Bethany, CT/Amity Regional), and one goal from Yacuzzi giving Mount Ida the 13-0 blanking with 7:28 to go in the third quarter.

Husson got on the board off an unassisted goal from sophomore Ben Landry (Lewiston, ME/Lewiston) to stop the bleeding for the Eagles trailing 13-1. 

Two more goals ensued for Mount Ida from Broughton and senior Chris Prophete's (Waltham, MA/Waltham) first goal of the game up 15-1 with 11:09 to go in the final frame.

Husson freshman Mitch Heaps (York, PA/Red Lion) notched the Eagles second goal of the contest off a feed from sophomore Anthony Diaz (Brunswick, ME/Brunswick) still trailing 15-2.  Mount Ida answered with a score from freshman Eric Parhiala (Derry, NH/Pinkerton Academy) from senior Brandon Keith (Barnstable, MA/Barnstable) leading 16-1. 

Landry notched their third and final goal immediately following for the Eagles that was answered by Mount Ida on senior Matt Vernik's (Bethany, CT/Amity) first goal of the game sealing the 17-3 NAC victory.

Vernik was disgustingly good in the face-off circle going 20-21 with 19 groundballs and a goal.  The Mount Ida defense was devastating led by senior's Kevin Mulvey (Peabody, MA/Peabody), Bryan Seaman (Peabody, MA/Peabody), Dan Kelley (Bethany, CT/Amity Regional) and sophomore long pole Carl Grimo (Bristol, RI/LaSalle Academy) only surrendering three scores with a shutout pitched for almost three quarters.

Mount Ida College netminder Jimmy McAllister (Smithfield, RI/LaSalle Academy) was also outstanding with seven saves.  Eagles starting goaltender Tyler Quinn (McLean, VA/McLean) saw the first half blocking 12 Mount Ida shots while freshman Alex Behzad (Stamford, CT/West Hill) got second half duties with seven saves.