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Purchase, NY (April 27, 2013) – Senior Brennan Gmeiner set a new single-game record with 21 ground balls and won 33-of-36 face-offs leading the DeSales University men's lacrosse team to a 23-9 win over Manhattanville College in the final Freedom Conference game of the regular season on Saturday afternoon.

The Bulldogs finish as the #3 seed in next week's Freedom Conference playoffs and will take to the road for a rematch with Misericordia University in the opening round on Wednesday, May 1st at 7:00 pm.  Eastern University if the top seed and will host King's College in the other Wednesday semifinal.  The playoff appearance is just the second all-time for the Bulldogs with the only other one coming in 2009.

Gmeiner has dominated face-offs all season and Saturday was no exception as he won 33-of-36 face-offs in the game and picked up a single-game record 21 ground balls which breaks the previous mark of 20 set in 2007 by Sam Gobeli.  He has now won 255 face-offs this season (72.0 percent) which are both single-season records already and is just 52 face-off wins shy of breaking the all-time record of 600.

His 21 ground balls also give him 155 this season, just two shy of breaking that single-season mark, set in 2010 by Kevin Walker.  He is 64 ground balls shy of tying the all-time mark, set by Brendan Guerrier.  He entered the week ranked fifth in the country in face-off winning percentage and seventh in ground balls per game.

DSU scored the final two goals of the second quarter to take a 9-5 lead into the locker room on Saturday and never looked back in the second-half breaking the game open with nine third quarter goals to lead, 18-9, finishing the game with seven straight goals scored.

The scoring was plentiful and led by senior James Guerrier (3g, 3a), sophomore Ryan Loughlin (3g, 3a), and junior Chalie Wilmer (4g, 2a) with six points each.  Sophomore Ryan Rowse added four goals and sophomore Nate Blevins had three goals in the win.

Sophomore Lance Bracale finished with two goals and sophomore Andrew Cox, Gmeiner, freshman Rob Hopkins, and freshman Tim Barry all scored goals to round out the scoring attack.  Barry also had six ground balls and freshman Matt Warnken had nine saves in between the pipes.