Allentown, PA – The SUNY Canton men's lacrosse team closed out a record-setting season at 11-6 overall with a 19-5 loss at No. 1 seed Muhlenberg College in a semifinal of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament on Saturday afternoon.

The 11 wins are the most in the NCAA Division III era for the Roos. 
 
Host Muhlenberg (11-6) jumped out to an 8-2 lead after the opening quarter and took a 13-3 lead into intermission. Four players paced the Mules with three points each in the opening half. Jake Sutton, Josh Yelvington and Dante Coco scored for the Roos. Justin LaDuke made 11 first-half saves in goal.
 
The Mules extended their lead to 16-3 after three quarters before Yelvington and Sutton tallied their second goals of the game in the fourth quarter for the 19-5 final.
 
Sutton led the Roos with two goals and one assist, while Coco and Brandon Schmidt picked up a team-high four ground balls apiece.
 
LaDuke finished with 18 saves in his first career start, while Garrett Pope made four stops in the first half and Lance Gibson turned aside nine shots after halftime for Muhlenberg.
 
Fourteen different players found the back of the net for the Mules led by a game-high three goals from Daniel Doreste. The Mules advance to the ECAC Championship to play the winner of Stockton and Kean on Sunday at 2 p.m.
 
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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.