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The Carthage College men's lacrosse team (12-4, 5-3 Midwest Men's Lacrosse Conference) gave conference-champion Adrian College (13-2, 8-0 MMLC) all they could handle on Friday, April 29, but the Red Men came up on the short end of 9-8 battle at the Multisport Performance Stadium in Adrian, Mich.

The game closed out the Red Men's regular-season schedule. Carthage has clinched a berth in the Midwest Men's Lacrosse Conference Tournament, which gets underway on Saturday, May 7 at Adrian. The Bulldogs (13-2, 8-0 MMLC) have clinched the conference championship, the home field and the top seed for the tournament. Carthage (5-3) is currently in fourth place, one-half game behind Aurora University (10-5, 5-2) and the College of Mount St. Joseph (8-6, 5-2). Both Aurora and Mount St. Joseph complete their regular-season conference schedule on Saturday, April 30.

Carthage jumped out to an early, 4-0 lead over the conference-champion Bulldogs behind goals by Keegan Bowman, Peter Slefinger, Danny Morse and Alex Zemke in the first four minutes and 14 seconds. Adrian closed the gap to 5-3 at the end of the first period and pulled even, 5-5, by halftime. The Bulldogs scored twice in the third period to take a 7-5 lead, as the Adrian defense kept the Red Men out of the net after Mike Upshaw scored with five seconds remaining in the first period to put Carthage up, 5-3. Still trailing by two, 8-6, in the fourth period, the Red Men scored two unanswered goals to tie the contest, 8-8, at 6:12. Adrian's Ryan Knautz scored the go-ahead goal at 4:49, and that 9-8 margin held up.

Adrian out-shot Carthage, 38-27. Tyler Tanguay and Josh Maluta scored two goals each for the Bulldogs. Danny Morse (Fr., O'Fallon, Ill./O'Fallon Township) led the Red Men with two goals and an assists. Keegan Bowman (Jr., New Westminster, British Columbia/New Westminster Secondary) had a goal and two assists, and Cory Childs (Sr., Savage, Minn./Prior Lake) had two assists.