ST. BONAVENTURE (1-5) vs. MARQUETTE (3-5)
Saturday, March 23 - 1:00 p.m.
Marra Athletics Complex
TV: ESPN+

OPENING FACEOFF

• The St. Bonaventure men's lacrosse team looks to keep momentum going as it hosts Marquette Saturday afternoon at the Marra Athletics Complex after winning last time out vs. Canisius.
• Saturday will be Senior Day at the Marra Athletics Complex. Prior to the game, the Bonnies will honor their four traditional seniors as part of the Class of 2024 - Cam Germain, Connor Steria, Tage Hoeg and Nick Porfilio.
• St. Bonaventure has received many outstanding contributions from a standout freshman class. Jake Kucinski and Patrick Shanahan have taken three of the six Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week awards this year with Kucinski winning the honors for the second time earlier this week following his four-goal effort vs. Canisius.
• Kucinski ranks first among all Atlantic 10 freshmen with 16 goals this season (which is good for seventh overall among all A-10 players). 
• Shanahan's 12 goals on the year ranks third among A-10 freshmen, behind only Chris Patterson of Hobart and his teammate Kucinski, and 10th overall.
• The Bonnies are hosting a Big East opponent for the first time in their Division I history. The Bonnies and Golden Eagles are wrapping up a home-and-home series that saw Marquette take a 9-5 win last March indoors. Jake Rosa led Bona with a hat trick in last year's game while Cris Cucciuffo made 13 saves in net. Bobby O'Grady powered Marquette with four goals. The contest was a homecoming of sorts for Wisconsin natives Nick and Will Porfilio who hail from Milwaukee. A third Wisconsin native is on this year's roster, freshman Nolan Wilde (Hartland, Wisc.) who is out with an injury for the season.

TRENDING NUMBERS
3 - Jake Rosa had three goals at Marquette last year. In his career, Rosa owns 12 hat tricks but seeks his first this year. 
14 - Jake Kucinski has 14 goals this season, one off the SBU Division I era freshman record of 15 set by Matt DeGirolamo in 2019. 
16 - Graduate Kellen Pulera ranks fifth among all Atlantic 10 players with 16 goals this year.
22 - Senior Nick Porfilio has 22 career caused turnovers, fifth in Bona's Division I era, just ahead of classmate Cam Germain (20).
41 - St. Bonaventure had 41 shots in last week's win vs. Canisius, the most for the team in a game this season.

BONNIES SENIOR DAY
#6 Nick Porfilio - A four-year member of the Bonnies men's lacrosse team, Porfilio has been a key part of the Bona defense since his freshman year. In his first season, the Bonnies ranked fourth nationally in scoring defense as he started all 10 games played with nine caused turnovers. As a sophomore, the Bonnies were third nationally in scoring defense as he played in all 15 games with 15 groundballs and seven caused turnovers. For his career, he has played in 45 games while posting 42 groundballs and his 22 caused turnovers are fifth in the Bona program record book.

#23 Connor Steria - A four-year member of the Bonnies program, he has logged time in 33 career games. He scored his first collegiate goal in a win over Hampton in 2022 and he has scooped up 10 groundballs with four caused turnovers in his career. Last year, he played in a career-high 10 games and this year he's seen action in all six games including five starts. He becomes the second member of his family to graduate from the St. Bonaventure men's lacrosse program, joining Class of 2023 grad and older brother David.

#26 Tage Hoeg - He is a four-year member of the Bonnies men's lacrosse program. Hoeg scored his first career collegiate goal with an acrobatic, around-the-net goal at Syracuse last year that went viral. He later scored another goal vs. High Point. A marketing major, he was named to the 2022 MAAC All-Academic Team.

#30 Cam Germain - Cam is a four-year member of the program who has played in 41 career games including 34 starts. He helped the Bonnies to top-five national rankings in scoring defense in his freshman and sophomore seasons, starting all 15 games during Bona's MAAC regular season championship campaign in 2022. Last year, he had 23 groundballs and 11 caused turnovers, including one in every Atlantic 10 game. A member of the 2022 MAAC All-Academic Team, he ranks sixth in Bonnies history for caused turnovers.

ABOUT MARQUETTE

• Marquette makes its first-ever trip to Western New York this weekend with a 3-5 overall record in non-conference play.
• The Golden Eagles opened the year with a win at Air Force (12-6), starting the season on a three-game winning streak with triumphs over Lindenwood (16-5) and Detroit Mercy (22-8). Since, though, it has been a five-game skid - against tough competition including No. 1 Notre Dame (21-8), #13 Michigan (20-12), Utah (9-8), Bellarmine (11-5) and No. 8 Penn State (13-7).
• Defenseman Mason Woodward was named the Big East Preseason Defensive Player of the Year while attackmen Devon Cowan and Bobby O'Grady were also named Preseason All-Big East. O'Grady is the program's all-time leading scorer with 106 career goals.