MLAX heads to St. Bonaventure on Saturday

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MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University men's lacrosse team heads to western New York state for a Saturday, March 23 meeting with St. Bonaventure at the Mara Athletics Field Complex.

The game airs live on ESPN+ and a link to live statistics are available on GoMarquette.com, courtesy of SBU Athletics. First faceoff is slated for noon Central time.

Following Saturday's action, the Golden Eagles continue their season-long five game road swing and begin BIG EAST Conference play on Saturday, March 30 at St. John's.

MARQUETTE (3-5, 0-0 BIG EAST)

MU's veteran core has reached numerous statistical milestones early this season, including a new program ground ball record for defenseman Mason Woodward (244), career assist record for Jake Stegman (72), career goal mark for Bobby O'Grady (106) and the 100-point threshold for both O'Grady (121) and Stegman (115).
Stegman leads the Golden Eagles with 24 points on nine goals and a team-best 15 assists. O'Grady has a team-high 18 scores in 2024 and three man-up goals.
Goalie Caleb Creasor is a first-time starter this season as a graduate transfer and posted a career-best 18 saves in Saturday's 13-7 loss to then-No. 8/9 Penn State in Springfield, Pennsylvania. The total is also the second-highest single-game mark in Marquette history.
O'Grady became the program's all-time scoring leader with four goals against then-No. 13/12 Michigan on Feb. 24 to surpass Ryan McNamara's record of 102 in the process. O'Grady now has 106 career goals just 37 games into his career (it took McNamara 64 games to reach 102) along with 121 points, just seven behind teammate Devon Cowan (128) for third all-time at MU.
Woodward is a member of the Tewaaraton Award Watch List and a consensus preseason All-America selection, with recognition from USILA, Inside Lacrosse and USA Lacrosse Magazine.
The Golden Eagles opened the season with wins at Air Force and against Lindenwood and Detroit Mercy but have lost their last five contests.
In total, the Golden Eagles returned 94 percent of their offensive production this season from the highest-scoring team (13.29 goals per game) in program history.

ST. BONAVENTURE (1-5, 0-0 ATLANTIC 10)

The Bonnies began the year with five-consecutive losses but picked up a 12-8 victory over Canisius on Tuesday, March 12 in their last game.
Three SBU players have reached double-figure goals this season, led by Kellan Pulera's 16 scores. Pulera has scored in half of his 32 shots this year.
Jake Kucinski is the team's point leader with 19 on the strength of 14 goals and five assists. He led SBU with four goals in last Tuesday's win over the Golden Griffins.
Cristofero Cucciffo has been SBU's goalie of record in five of the six games and has made 70 saves with a save percentage of .515.

HISTORY WITH THE BONNIES

Marquette leads the all-time series with St. Bonaventure, 1-0, after last season's 9-5 victory at Valley Fields on March 25, 2023.
Bobby O'Grady scored a game-high four goals in last year's game as MU outshot SBU, 48-29, and picked up 13 more ground balls.
This week marks MU's first trip to western New York state.
Jake Rosa, who has scored four times in six games this season, led the Bonnies with a hat trick in last year's meeting with MU. Cucciffo made 13 saves against Marquette last season.

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