Moore sets Virginia’s career points record at Senior Night

Courtesy UVA Media Relations

With two goals and six assists, Virginia attackman Matt More passed Steele Stanwick on Virginia’s all-time career points list in the Cavaliers’ 20-10 win over Lafayette (4-11) at Klöckner Stadium on Thursday night. At Virginia’s Senior Night, fifth-year Moore finished Thursday’s contest with 271 career points, including 140 goals and 131 assists.

In the cage, Miles Thompson (1-0) earned his first career win after posting a career-best 13 saves in 52:48 of action. Lafayette’s Gabe Cummins (3-6) suffered the loss.

In addition to Moore, Payton Cormier (5 goals, 8 shots) and Regan Quinn (4 goals, 5 shots) led the Cavaliers offensively. Quinn’s four goals are a career best. Virginia dominated the faceoff-X after Petey LaSalla (17-22), Gable Braun (7-10) and Mitchell Whalen (1-2) combined to win 25 of the game’s 34 total faceoffs.

Virginia (11-3) recognized all 14 of its fourth and fifth-year student-athletes prior to the start of Thursday’s contest.

HOW IT HAPPENED 

Quinn opened the scoring for Virginia as the Cavaliers leaped out to 7-1 lead in the middle of the second. UVA saw goals from seven different players in its first seven strikes of the game. Back-to-back goals by Lafayette broke up Virginia’s run, but the Cavaliers tacked on two more goals before halftime at which point UVA led, 9-3. Moore posted four of his eight points in the first 30 minutes of play with one goal and three assists.

The Cavaliers scored the first three goals to open the second half, which encompassed a goal and an assist from Moore. With 6:00 remaining in the third, Moore found Cormier, who fired at the cage to tally his fifth and final goal, which gave Moore his seventh point of the evening to shatter Stanwick’s record. Twenty-four seconds later, Moore assisted once again – this time to Peter Garno to register his sixth assist of the game. Virginia led 14-6 at the end of the third. The Cavaliers out-scored Lafayette 6-4 in the fourth quarter to remain a perfect 8-0 at Klöckner Stadium this season.

FROM THE LOCKER ROOM

Lars Tiffany on Matt Moore’s record-breaking performance … 

“Certainly, an exciting night to have Matt Moore distributing the ball and sharing it. That’s a sign of not only how good a player he is, but his leadership. He’s giving to others – emotionally and certainly on the field. We get to see the fun stuff. He’s giving the ball to others and letting them finish the goal. So, it’s a really exciting team win and great to be moving into the month of May on a really high note.”