Annandale-on-Hudson – Josh Yelvington scored four goals and Andrew Garrett added two goals and two assists but a strong second half led Bard College past the SUNY Canton men's lacrosse team, 15-10, in the season-opening contest for both teams on Wednesday.
 
Host Bard (1-0) jumped out to a 5-3 lead after the first quarter but the Roos (0-1) responded with a stretch of four of five goals. The teams headed into intermission tied at seven apiece. Garrett, Jake Sutton, Trenton Yule and Yelvington all posted two points apiece in the first half, while E O'Connell led the Raptors with three goals.
 
The Raptors outscored Canton 8-3 after halftime to secure the five-goal victory.
 
Yelvington and Garret paced the Roos with four points each, while Yule added a pair of goals and Sutton dished out a pair of assists. Brandon Rodee tallied a team-high six ground balls, while Hunter Yerdon recorded a game-best five caused turnovers to go with five ground balls.
 
Emmet O'Connell paced the Raptors with five goals and one assist, while Corey Rich posted three goals, two assists and four ground balls.
 
Kody Kocsis made 19 saves in goal for SUNY Canton, while Lyle Healey made eight stops in the win for Bard.
 
The men's lacrosse team returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Green Mountain College at 1 p.m. Stay up to date with the latest news directly from the SUNY Canton Athletics department by "liking" us on Facebook and "following" our Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts.

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SUNY Canton is Northern New York's premier college for career-driven bachelor's degrees, associate degrees and professional certificate programs. The college delivers quality hands-on programs in engineering technology, health, management and public service and recently received number one rankings in library resources, library services and tutoring services in the SUNY Student Opinion Survey. The college's faculty members are noted for their professional real-world experience in addition to outstanding academic credentials. SUNY Canton OnLine offers hundreds of flexible and convenient courses as well as 13 exclusively online degrees. The college's 15 athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division III level and are joining the North Atlantic Conference beginning in the 2018-19 academic year.