CASTLETON, Vt. – The Castleton University men's lacrosse team dropped a Little East Conference battle with Keene State Tuesday night at Dave Wolk Stadium, 21-4.
 
The Spartans (1-10, 1-2 LEC) were outshot by Keene (8-3, 4-0 LEC) 39-11 on goal while the Owls also had a 49-28 edge in ground balls and 16-13 edge in successful clears.
 
Four different Spartans found the back of the goal on Tuesday night, as Casey Meczywor, Hunter Sarro, Dawson Nalette and Dylan Davis were Castleton's goal scorers. Sean Kimura had an assist for the Spartans. Meczyowr had a team-leading five ground balls, while Kimura, Sarro, Griffin Weller and Matt Mumford had three groundballs each. Finn Miller was 7-of-15 on face-offs, while Chris Wilk piled up 16 saves in 45 minutes of play in goal.
 
The Owls were paced by six goals from Nathan Sickles and three goals and two assists from Cooper Cioffi. Rex Maccarini and Giacomo Tedone also had hat-tricks for Keene State. Colby Quiet had 10 ground balls, winning 15-of-26 face-offs while adding a goal and three assists. Chase Chamberlin stopped four of the five shots he faced in the first half for the win in goal.
 
Castleton got on the board first, as Sarro scored on a pass from Kimura to make it 1-0 Spartans less than two minutes into the game. The Owls rallied with five unanswered goals to close the first quarter, and scored six more in the second to take an 11-1 lead at halftime.
 
After seven unanswered goals in the third quarter made it 18-1, Castleton opened the scoring in the fourth quarter with a goal from Davis. Keene tacked on their final three goals before Meczywor and Nalette scored for Castleton to close the night at 21-4.
 
The Spartans are on the road Saturday at Eastern Connecticut State for a 1 p.m. LEC contest.