ST. DAVIDS, Pa.– With the weather worsening throughout the game, Eastern University Men's Lacrosse (1-2)dropped a 16-9 decision to the visiting Kean University Cougars. Nick Litzenberger scored three times and reached the 100 goal milestone for his career in the loss.

The visiting Cougars (1-1) scored the first four goals of the game and the Eagles spent the rest of the game chasing. It was 2-0 after one quarter, and Kean's faceoff specialist scored to open the third. Litzenberger set up Gavin Stark and then scored twice to pull the Eagles to within a goal with four minutes left in the half.

The Eagles had a possession with a chance to tie, but a turnover gave Kean a chance to to double that edge. Zachary Klym made a a pair of good stops, but the Cougars got an unassisted goal to be up 5-3 at half.

After the Cougars restored their four-goal lead with he first two goals of the second half, Brett Gougler scored his first of two on the day with ten minutes to play in the third. The Cougars had an answer at the 8:30 mark before Stark set up Jake Vitone for a goal on the crease. Less than two minutes later, Gougler scored to close the gap to 8-6.

With the snow coming down heavily, and footing deteriorating, the Cougars then put together a four-goal burst that took less than 90 seconds.

"While we did not have a great game at any particular spot on the field," Head Coach Colin Piper said after the game, "That run late in the third really hurt."

With the Eagles up a man, Andrew Collins scored the final goal of the quarter on a nice feed from Christopher Fanelli. Luc Trudel and Litzenberger scored in a fourth quarter where the Eagles outshot Kean by an 8-to-7 margin.

Kean goalie Nick Paterno made 12 stops. Klym had 14 for the Eagles. Zach Puckett had three caused turnovers and seven ground balls.

It is the first time the two programs have met since 2008.

Eastern is at Swarthmore on Wednesday.