Junior Cameron Nitti scored seven goals with one assist while classmates Mark Schnauber and Rocco Santillo each added a hat trick to lead Spencerport to a 19-11 victory over the Greece Lightning in boys’ lacrosse.
Greece jumped out to a 2-0 advantage and led 3-2 in the first quarter before the Rangers stormed back with five unanswered goals to take the lead.
Nitti scored at 8:08 of the first with an assist from Jonathan Agness to tie the game and Schnauber tallied his first of the game from Santillo while playing a man-up to give the Rangers their first lead.
Schnauber opened the second quarter with a goal just 22 seconds in and Spencerport made it 6-3 when Santillo intercepted a pass in the defensive zone and quickly transitioned up field. Schnauber found Jack Lehtonen for the score at :51 of the second.
Schnauber completed his hat trick to stake the Rangers to a four goal advantage, but the Lightning scored two of the final three goals of the half to cut the lead to 8-5.
Spencerport opened the second half sloppy in the offensive zone which allowed Greece to score the first four goals of the third quarter and take a 9-8 lead, but a goal by Agness from Owen VanWie turned momentum back Spencerport’s way and tied the game 9-9.
That was the first of six unanswered Ranger goals including three by Santillo and single tallies from Nitti and Joe Curcio to make it 14-9.
The defense allowed the Lightning to score only twice in the fourth quarter while Nitti tallied three more with Curcio and VanWie each adding one for the 19-11 final.
In addition to Nitti’s eight point game, Agness finished with five points on one goal, and four assists and Schnauber added two assists to his three goal output. Santillo had one assist with his three goals, VanWie had two goals with two assists while dominating the faceoff circle and Curcio finished with two goals and one assist.
Ryan Griffin was credited with seven saves in net as the Rangers improved their record to 6-1.
