ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – Four different players recorded multi-goal games and The No. 3 seed University of Scranton men's lacrosse team (13-7) rolled past the top-seeded Elizabethtown Blue Jays (11-7) by a score of 17-6 to earn the program's second consecutive Landmark Conference title on Saturday at Wolf Field in Elizabethtown.

This is also the second straight year that the Royals have defeated the Blue Jays in the Landmark title game as the program is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the third time.

Scranton has secured the Landmark's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and will find out its first opponent in a live selection show that will air on NCAA.com on Sunday night at 9 p.m.

Sophomore Kyle Holmes (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) earned Tournament MVP honors for the Royals after scoring 15 goals and adding six ground balls in three postseason contests.

ETown's Connor Stewart scored the first goal of the game 2:26 in before Holmes and fellow sophomore Jason Kozak (Floral Park, N.Y./Floral Park Memorial) scored just 0:55 apart to give the Royals a 2-1 lead for the time being. The Blue Jays got a goal late in the period that evened things at two apiece after one. After each team found the back of the net in the early stages of the second quarter, freshman Myles McCutcheon (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) scored to begin a four-goal run for the Royals over the remainder of the quarter and sophomore Pat McCormack's (Livingston, N.J./Livingston) goal in the final minute made it a 7-3 game at the half.

Senior Joe Boyle (Huntington, N.Y./St. Anthony's) took a feed from Kozak and struck 0:23 into a dominant third quarter where Scranton blanked ETown by a 7-0 margin. McCutcheon scored three times in the quarter and senior Seamus O'Callaghan (Bethpage, N.Y./Chaminade) added a goal and assist in the final 1:50 as the Royals extended the lead to 14-3. Holmes, Kozak and McCutcheon all recorded a tally in the fourth quarter and head coach Michael Hofmeister's team secured a second straight Landmark title with the decisive victory.

McCutcheon scored a career-high six goals to lead the way offensively, while Boyle added three goals and three assists, Holmes tallied a hat trick and Kozak had two goals and two assists.

Junior John O'Connor (Rocky Point, N.Y./Rocky Point) won 14 faceoffs on the day and collected six ground balls.

Defensively, the trio of senior Dom Gubitosi (Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown), senior Andrew Lord (Havertown, Pa./Haverford) and graduate student Colin Pierce (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) had two caused turnovers apiece.

Sophomore goalie Declan Allen (Garden City, N.Y./Millbrook) made 10 saves in the victory.

Stay tuned to athletics.scranton.edu and the RoyalAthletics' social media accounts as the NCAA Tournament field is unveiled on Sunday night.

--ROYALS--