2016 News

TOWSON, Md. — Four players from Goucher are included on the 2016 All-Landmark Conference men's lacrosse team which was revealed this afternoon by the conference office. All four are seniors and each one of them was a second-team selection.

TOWSON, Md. —Goucher brought down the curtain on its 2016 campaign on a successful note today, pinning a 12-9 setback on Drew in front of 318 fans on Beldon Field.

SELINSGROVE, Pa. — Goucher's lead in the all-time series with Susquehanna was reduced to 8-3 today when the Crusaders, who began the day tie with Scranton for second place in the Landmark Conference, pinned a 14-7 setback on head coach Brian Kelly's squad.

TOWSON, Md. — After going 75 straight games without scoring as many as eight goals in one 15-minute quarter, Goucher erupted for eight goals in the second period and eight more in the third on the way to a 22-14 triumph over Moravian this afternoon before a sun-drenched Gopher Stadium crowd of 285.

TOWSON, Md. — A Division III All-American field hockey player, an accomplished three-sport athlete who has gone on to become a highly successful high school field hockey coach and the first four-time all-conference performer in the history of the men's lacrosse program were welcomed this evening into the Goucher College Athletics Hall of Fame.

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Despite a career-high 19-save performance by sophomore goalkeeper Matt Messerle (Limerick, Pa./Spring-Ford), Goucher was unsuccessful in its attempt to gain its first Landmark Conference victory of the season today. Elizabethtown was still able to turn enough of the 48 shots it got off into goals to earn a 12-7 victory over head coach Brian Kelly's squad.

TOWSON, Md. — There was certainly no quit in Goucher today as head coach Brian Kelly's squad, which once trailed by seven goals, entered the fourth quarter four goals behind Scranton. By scoring three unanswered goals in the final period, including one by Owen Demmerly (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) with :31 remaining, the Gophers got as close as 10-9, but time ran out before they could complete what would have been an astonishing comeback.

KINGS POINT, N.Y. — Goucher was again denied its first Landmark Conference victory of the season today as the Gophers were handed a 15-5 setback by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

TOWSON, Md. — Seven different Goucher players scored at least one goal — and one of them had five goals to his credit — before Washington & Jefferson managed to produce its first goal with less than five minutes remaining in the third quarter tonight. The Gophers improved to 8-0 all-time against the Presidents with a 14-3 victory.

TOWSON, Md. — Goucher played its first Landmark Conference game of the season this afternoon against the defending champion. The Gophers never held a lead at any point during the contest and wound up losing to Catholic, 13-10.

TOWSON, Md. — One day after he contributed three goals and a pair of assists to Goucher's 15-8 triumph over Ferrum, Owen Demmerly (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) turned in a four-goal, three-assist performance to guide the Gophers past SUNY Polytechnic Institute, 21-5, this afternoon on Beldon Field.

TOWSON, Md. — Goucher turned a three-goal deficit at the end of the first quarter into a 10-6 lead through three periods today by outscoring Ferrum, 9-2, in the middle two stanzas. By the time the final horn sounded, the Gophers had extended their winning streak to five games by turning back the Panthers, 15-8.

TOWSON, Md. — Goucher carried a shutout into the latter stages of the third quarter for the second time this season today, but this time the Gophers surrendered only the one goal to the opposition as they thumped Beloit, 17-1.

TOWSON, Md. — Goucher opened a six-game homestand successfully today, coming out on top in a 15-6 battle with King's (Pa.).

WESTMINSTER, Md. — Goucher played McDaniel in the sport of men's lacrosse for the first time back in 1992.

TOWSON, Md. — Goucher carried a shutout into the latter stages of the third quarter today on the way to its first victory of the season, a 12-5 triumph over Randolph-Macon.