BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (April 2, 2018) -- The Illinois Wesleyan University men's lacrosse team lost a 13-9 decision to visiting Aurora University at Tucci Stadium on Monday, April 2, in a rematch of teams that last met in the NCAA Division III tournament first round last season.

Aurora University improved to 9-1 overall while Illinois Wesleyan, playing its first game since March 22, now sports a 6-3 record.
 
GAME RECAP
• The Titans trailed by a 4-1 score early in the second quarter and were down 6-2 at halftime.
• After Aurora had built up an 8-3 lead with 5:03 to go in the third, Illinois Wesleyan scored three straight goals coming from Alex Doorenbos, Tanner Nelson (man-up - Nick Winter assist) and Winter to cut the deficit to 8-6.
• Aurora scored three of the next four goals to claim a four goal lead at 11-7 and the four goals was the decisive margin of victory as IWU was limited to one tally in the final 9:00.
• The Titans committed 16 turnovers to 14 for Aurora and the Spartans held a 16-10 edge in faceoffs won. Aurora also had 43 shots to 39 for IWU.
 
TITAN TEAM LEADERS
Points: Winter (3)
Goals: Winter and Will Rossi (2); Winter now has 22 goals this season and Rossi has 17
Assists: Winter and Peter Trunk (1)
Ground balls: J.C. Grabarek (8)
Face offs: Grabarek (9-of-24)
Saves: McGuire Mynatt (14)
 
WHAT'S NEXT
Next action for the Titan men's lacrosse team comes on Wednesday, April 4 when they host North Central College in a 7:30 p.m. College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin game at Tucci Stadium ... The Cardinals are 4-6 overall and will be playing their first CCIW game ... North Central is coming off a 21-3 home win over Adrian on Saturday.