BRUNSWICK, Maine – The Rivier men's lacrosse team's run in the NCAA Championship was ended at No. 8 Bowdoin in the Second Round as the Raiders fell to the Polar Bears by a final score of 28-3 on Saturday afternoon at Whittier Field.

Rivier, led by head coach James DeLanoy in his 14th season, concluded its year with a 17-2 overall record. The Raiders' season was full of highlights, including a 15-game winning streak that extended through the NCAA First Round following the program's first Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Championship.

The Polar Bears, now 14-3, will host a Third Round matchup against the winner of Endicott and No. 17 Amherst on Sunday, May 11 at 3:00 p.m.

Parker Williams notched his first goal of the campaign as one of three Rivier goal scorers on the afternoon, catching a feed on a clear from graduate student Adam Hailey and firing a bounce shot in for the Raiders' first goal of the outing. Graduate student Michael Ference, the GNAC Offensive Player of the Year, scored an even-strength goal in the fourth quarter before senior Chris Heitmiller logged a man-up tally less than a minute later.

Graduate student and GNAC Goalkeeper of the Year, Sawyer Gagnon, registered 17 saves while senior Samuel Tibbetts notched four stops in the final 9:59 of action.