McNeany, Hagy Eclipse Career Milestones in Coker's Thrilling Win over North Greenville

TIGERVILLE, S.C. - Junior midfielder Jason McNeany and senior goalkeeper Chris Hagy each eclipsed a career milestone in Coker's thrilling 16-15 win over North Greenville on Saturday (Mar. 13).

Coker took a 2-0 lead less than three minutes into the game on unassisted goals from Ethan Irizarry and Richie Timothee, before North Greenville tied the game just past the six-minute mark of the quarter. The Cobras would take a 3-2 lead with seven minutes to go in the first when Andrew Dappen scored from Cal Gibson, before North  Greenville would take a 4-3 lead with two goals in the final six minutes of the quarter. Timothee would tie the game at four with his second goal of the quarter with a minute and a half to play in the frame. The game was tied at four after 15 minutes.

North Greenville scored just 18 seconds into the second quarter, before the Cobras went on a four-goal run to take an 8-5 lead four and a half minutes in. Joe Venazio scored from Matt Murphy, before the two connected again just over a minute later. Henry Haskett got in on the scoring with a man-up goal from Venazio, before Dappen scored unassisted. North Greenville would get back within two with a goal with five minutes to play in the frame, before Murphy would score an unassisted man-up goal with two and a half minutes to play in the period. After a North Greenville goal to get back within two, Venazio scored with under a minute to play in the second to put the Cobras ahead 10-7 at the half.

Coker would score the first two goals of the third quarter to go up 12-7, starting with a man-up goal from Venazio assisted by Murphy 33 seconds into the period. Irizarry would follow less than 90 seconds later with a man-up goal assisted by Venazio. North Greenville would counter with back-to-back goals five minutes into the period to get back within three, before Coker would score the final two goals of the period to take a 14-9 lead to the fourth. Murphy scored unassisted with just over nine minutes to play in the quarter, before Dappen scored unassisted with two minutes to play in the frame.

North Greenville would open the fourth quarter with three consecutive goals  to get back within two, before Irizarry would break up the momentum with an unassisted man-down goal with nine and a half minutes to play. North Greenville would go on another three-goal run to tie the game at 15 with two minutes to play, before some unassisted heroics by Irizarry put the Cobras ahead for good with a goal with 46 seconds left.

Irizarry and Venazio each netted four goals in the victory, while Dappen recorded a hat trick and Murphy and Timothee each scored twice. Haskett also contributed one goal in the win. Murphy dished out four assists in the game, while Venazio added two and Gibson also helped on one Coker goal. McNeany led the Cobras with seven ground balls on his way to passing Josh Smith ( 178, 2013-16) and becoming the program's all-time career ground balls leader (181). Irizarry and James Brugger each picked up four ground balls in the game, while four other Cobras each collected two and six others each scooped up one. Irizarry also registered a team-high three caused turnovers, while Stephen Sperbeck and Brugger each recorded two and three others each caused one. Hagy (2-2) earned the win for the Cobras between the pipes, making 18 saves. Hagy also became the second player in program history to record 400 career saves, currently sitting in second on the all-time career saves list (428) behind Tim Ryan (474, 2012-15).

Coker (2-2) is back in action on Wednesday (Mar. 17) to host Newberry in South Atlantic Conference action. Opening face-off is set for 4:00 p.m., with video and live stats available at www.cokercobras.com.

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