HOGENCAMP SHINES AS #6 BENTLEY RALLIES PAST #8 PACE, 16-15
April 7, 1998

     WALTHAM, Mass. --- Sophomore Dean Hogencamp (Yarmouth, Maine/ Yarmouth HS) had seven goals and two assists as Bentley College, ranked sixth nationally in Division II, rallied from a seven-goal deficit to edge number eight Pace University, 16-15, in a showdown between Northeast-10 Conference men's lacrosse powers Tuesday night.

Bentley, which trailed 11-4 midway through the second quarter, improved to 5-1 overall and 4-0 in the NE-10.  Pace, whose other losses were against second-ranked C.W. Post and third-ranked New York Tech, dropped to 4-3 and 1-1.

After a dismal opening stanza which saw the Falcons surrender a school record 10 goals, Bentley rebounded by scoring the final four goals of the first half to cut the Setter lead to three, 11-8.

Pace came out and netted the first two scores of the second half, but the rest of the night belonged to the Falcons.   Hogencamp began a run of seven straight Bentley goals with 7:03 left in the third, senior Jason McCafferty (Southington, Conn./ Southington HS) followed at 3:50 and Hogencamp tallied his fifth of the game with three seconds left in the period, drawing the Falcons to within two goals for the first time since midway through the first.

Hogencamp, who climbed to fifth on Bentley's career goal list with 77, scored his sixth with 11:57 to play, making it a one-goal game, and then fed junior Geoff Silva (Billerica/Billerica HS) for the equalizer 40 seconds later.  Silva's second goal of the night, with 9:59 remaining, broke the tie and gave Bentley a lead it would not relinquish.

The Falcons twice took a two-goal lead, Hogencamp with 4:28 left and junior middie Bill Bendell (No. Syracuse, N.Y./No. Syracuse-Cicero HS) with 2:34, but Pace kept coming back.  The Setters cut the lead to 16-15 on a goal by Andy Wasik with 23 seconds, and were attacking before junior Mark Rollins (Duxbury/Duxbury HS) came away with a loose ball in front of the net as the clock ran out.

Bendell finished with two goals and four assists, while McCafferty had a season-high four goals for Bentley.  Wasik (three goals, three assists) and Marcus Mayus (two goals, four assists) each had six points for Pace.

Bentley senior netminder Matt Ehrlich (Lebanon, N.H./Lebanon HS), who overcame the shaky first period to limit Pace to just five goals over the final three quarters, finished with 15 saves.  Sophomore Joe Vuotto had 12 saves for Pace.

Bentley is back at home Thursday when it will host Assumption (7 p.m.).