BURLINGTON, VT. – The Vermont men's lacrosse team won its sixth straight game and clinched at least of share of its third consecutive America East Regular Season title with a 21-3 victory over visiting UMass Lowell Saturday afternoon at Virtue Field.
 
Vermont improved to 8-4 overall and 6-0 in America East action and will host the 2023 America East Tournament May 4-6. UMass Lowell falls to 0-12 and 0-6 in league play.
 
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COACH'S QUOTE
"The seniors mean everything - I can't tell you how proud I am to be their coach," head coach Chris Feifs said. "These young men give so much to Vermont, the game and this program every year with all the challenges and they've done it at a high level of success."
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Carson Boyle scored UVM's first goal just 52 seconds into the contest in what would be Vermont's highest offensive output of the season.
• Goals from David Closterman, Tristan Whitaker, Brock Haley, Ezra Zabukovic and Colin Sharkey had UVM up 7-0 after one quarter.
• It was more of the same in the second frame as the Cats scored another seven goals including four from Haley to take a 14-0 lead into halftime.
• After two goals from Closterman made it 16-0, UMass Lowell got on the board on a goal from Nick Harvath.
• George Egan made five saves spanning the third and into the fourth for Vermont.
• Ty Woolston scored his first career goal to the delight of the Catamount faithful and gave the Cats an 18-1 lead.
• Same Bowen, Clay Weiss and Per-Anders Olters all scored in the fourth the put the finishing touches on the win.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Haley and Closterman each finished with five goals for UVM. Haley reached 50 points for the second straight season while Closterman hit the 40-point mark for the third time in his career.
• 15 different players recorded points for the Catamounts which is a season high and the most in the Chris Feifs era.
• Tommy Burke went a perfect 15-for-15 at the faceoff X – his highest win percentage of the season and his career – to go along with 10 ground balls. UVM as a team was 23-for-27.
• Vermont is now 8-1 this season when scoring at least 10 goals.
• The Catamounts have won their last 18 games against conference opponents. Their average margin of victory in that streak is 6.6 goals.
• UVM honored its 14-member senior class in a postgame celebration presented by the UVM Alumni Association.
• With today's win, Vermont Mutual Insurance Group will donate $100 to King Street Center as part of the Cats Win, Community Wins initiative. Since its inauguration in 2017, Vermont Mutual Insurance Group has donated over $80,000 to local non-profits through the Cats Win, Community Wins initiative. 

WHO'S NEXT
The Cats wrap up the regular season next weekend with a trip to Baltimore to take on UMBC. All the action begins Saturday at noon on AmericaEast.TV.