Hoyas Win BIG EAST Opener 14-13 Over Providence on Senior Day

WASHINGTON – Georgetown University's men's lacrosse team opened the 2025 BIG EAST campaign with a 14-13 victory over visiting Providence on Saturday afternoon at Cooper Field. The No. 17/15 Hoyas improve to 6-3 overall and 1-0 in league play while the Friars fall to 4-6 on the year and 0-1 in conference action.
 
Hoya Highlights

• Fulton Bayman had a career-high six points with a goal and five assists while Pax Marshall also notched a career-best with four goals on the day.
• Jordan Wray scored two goals and had an assist, Jack Ransom scored twice and Aidan Carroll posted a goal and two assists.
• Joe Cesare and Kevin Miller both had a goal and an assist while Cade Caggiano and Ben Firlie added lone goals.
• Kade Goldberg was credited with a pair of assists.
• Defensively, Ty Banks and Robert Plath both notched a pair of caused turnovers with Banks collecting four ground balls. Bayman led the Hoyas with five ground balls while five other Georgetown players had three in the game.
• Wilson Van Buren won 10-of-18 (.555) faceoffs on the day and Matthew Riley went 6-for-12 (.500).
• In goal, Anderson Moore (6-3) collected 10 saves in the win.

How it Happened

• Providence got on the board first, scoring in transition off a long outlet pass from its goalie at the 12:45 mark. The Hoyas responded with Firlie's lone goal of the game with 9:22 to play, but the Friars went on to take a 4-2 lead after 15 minutes, outscoring the Hoyas 3-2 in the final seven minutes of the frame.
• An early goal just 11 seconds into the second quarter gave PC a 5-2 lead – its biggest advantage of the day – before the Blue & Gray blitzed their guests with four unanswered goals the rest of the quarter to take a 6-5 lead going into halftime.
• Coming out of the break, Miller's bouncer 62 seconds into the half beat PC's keeper for a 7-5 lead but the Friars came right back to score 33 seconds later, ending a 16:24 scoring drought. Consecutive goals from Wray and Ransom gave the Hoyas their largest lead – up three at 9-6 – with 6:50 to play in the quarter but Providence rallied back with three-straight goals to close out the frame and pull within one, down 10-9 going into the final 15 minutes of action.
• A hotly contested fourth quarter had Providence knot things up twice, first at 10-10 at the 12:04 mark and again at 11-11 with 5:51 to play. Back-to-back goals from Marshall and Wray put the Hoyas up 13-11 with 4:34 to go but the Friars would not go down without a fight. Providence scored just 30 second later to pull within one, the Hoyas responded with Bayman's goal 36 seconds later and the Friars answered in turn 46 seconds after that to make it 14-13 with 2:42 remaining. In the final minutes, Georgetown won the ensuing faceoff, collected a pair of ground balls after two shots to reset the shot clock twice and overcame a crushing onslaught of defenders attacking Wray on the end line to earn a timeout with 39 seconds to play. Out of the huddle, Carroll was able to trim 17 seconds off the scoreboard before PC's desperation clear attempt sailed high, allowing the Hoyas to seal the game in the waning seconds.

Providence Notes

• Jack Horrigan led the Friars with five goals and an assist while Richie Joseph added three goals and two assists. Ryan Bell tallied four assists on the day as well.
• Quinn McConnaughey won 13-of-24 (.541) faceoffs and tied Bayman for the game-high with five ground balls.
• Defensively, Gregg Dennison and Albert Paniccia were both credited with a pair of caused turnovers.
• In goal, Dan Donague (4-6) had 15 saves and an assist in the loss.

Georgetown Notes

• With his three points, Carroll moves into 26th place all time on the Georgetown career scoring list with 113 points. He passes Kevin Noonan '94 and Mike Henehan '01 on the list.
• Bayman's five assists are tied for 14th most in a single game at Georgetown.
• Plath's caused turnovers gives him 21 on the season, tied for 13th most in a single season on the Hilltop. Only Banks (24 in 2024) has recorded more during their freshman campaign at Georgetown.

Up Next
The Hoyas continue BIG EAST play on Saturday, April 5 at 1 p.m. ET against Marquette in Milwaukee.