St. Andrews Presbyterian College scored the first two goals of the game and held a 3-1 advantage after the first quarter but Belmont Abbey College scored all six goals in the second quarter to take over en route to a 14-8 Conference Carolinas men's lacrosse victory on Wednesday afternoon. The Crusaders won their third straight game leveling its overall record at 5-5 and moving to 3-2 in conference action. The Knights dropped their sixth consecutive contest falling to 3-11 overall and 0-4 in the league.

Miles Elliott scored both of his goals in the Crusaders second quarter run including a goal with less than two seconds left to give the Abbey a 7-3 lead at halftime. Elliott and classmate Dave DiLuigi tied for game-high scoring honors with four points apiece. DiLuigi had three goals and one assist while Elliott provided two goals and two assists.

Kyle Loda netted a hat trick to lead the Knights scorers. The sophomore duo of Nick Lewnes and Ryan Hoover -- who are both from Arnold, Maryland -- had two goals apiece for St. Andrews. Junior Kyle Carnaggio had a game-high three assists.

Loda and Lewnes scored the first two goals of the afternoon on a pair of extra-man opportunities. DiLuigi put the visitors on the board with an unassisted goal with 2:45 left in the first quarter but Loda scored with two seconds on the clock to extend the Knights advantage to 3-1 after the opening quarter.

Belmont Abbey came out firing in the second quarter going on a six-goal run that included a goal in the first minute by DiLuigi and Elliott's tally as time was expiring in the first half. DiLuigi had a pair of goals in the second quarter to register his hat trick in the first half.

St. Andrews closed the deficit in half, 7-5, but scoring the first two goals out of the midway intermission. Loda scored exactly one minute into the second half while Hoover scored 60 seconds later. The Abbey maintained its two-goal edge for the next 11 minutes before senior Michael Brown and freshman Terrance Sullivan scored in the final two minutes to double up the Crusaders advantage to 9-5 heading into the fourth quarter.

Sophomore Harrison Young scored his only goal in the first minute of the final frame but Belmont Abbey followed with the next four goals to put the game away before coasting to the six-goal victory Harrison Young also had one assist.

Knights' sophomore starting goalkeeper Patrick Wade made a game-high 14 saves. Crusaders' sophomore counterpart Tony Kikola made eight stops in 53 minutes of action to earn the victory in net. Freshman backup Merrick Reiland had five saves in the final seven minutes to prevent a Knights comeback.

Freshman Jarrett Bergin tied DiLuigi with three goals. Bergin scored two of his goals on EMO opportunities as the BAC went 3-for-6 on extra-man opportunities. Brown and Sullivan both found the back of the cage twice while sophomore Douglas Lipka and sophomore Damon DeLuca had the Crusaders other goals. Lipka had a three-point performance with a team-high three assists.