GRANVILLE, Ohio (March 23, 2024) – In a matchup between the two teams that have met up in the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship during each of the last three seasons, the Denison University men's lacrosse team opened up NCAC action with a resounding 20-10 win over Kenyon College on Saturday afternoon inside Denison's new Kienzle-Hylbert Stadium.

Luke Fisher (8 goals; 2 assists) teamed with Tommy Quinson (5 goals; 3 assists) to account for 13 of Denison's 20 goals.

Nate Kay added three goals, Brady Monturio (2 goals; 1 assist) matched him with three points and had his first-career multi-goal game, and Kevin Berutich added two assists.

Denison led 3-0 after goals by Nick Vance, Fisher and Monturio in the first five minutes of the game and then after leading 4-2 at the end of the first quarter, scored the first five goals of the second quarter to go up 9-2 on a goal by Quinson with 6:30 left until halftime.

Quinson accounted for three goals during Denison's 5-0 run to open up the second quarter before Fisher scored the Big Red's final two goals of the period to help make it 11-4 at the end of the half.

Denison ultimately led by as many as 11 points (17-6) after a 4-0 stretch ending with another goal by Quinson with 3:56 left in the third quarter.

The Big Red won five of seven faceoffs and outshot the Owls 12-4 in the first quarter as Kenyon struggled to get good looks at the goal in the opening period. However, it was then the Owls who outshot the Big Red by three (39-36) the rest of the way. The two teams were even in faceoffs (13-13) over the final three quarters as well.

Grant Larson was 16-for-30 on faceoffs and picked up 14 groundballs while Owen O'Neill finished with four groundballs and three caused turnovers.

In goal, Andrew Albert made 14 saves and finished with a .583 save percentage.

In addition to finishing with a season-high 20 goals, Denison rattled off a season-high .417 shooting percentage.

In what was a battle between two teams receiving votes in the latest USILA/Blatant Coaches' Poll, Denison improves to .500 on the season at 4-4 and is now 1-0 in the NCAC while Kenyon falls to 6-4 and 0-1.

Next up, the Big Red will head back into nonconference action and will host the No. 17 nationally-ranked York College of Pennsylvania at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 29.