Falcons improve to 11-1 with wins at MIT and Brown

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – Air Force swept a pair of road games and improved to 11-1 overall this season, the best start since 1977. The Falcons defeated MIT, 13-8, and Brown, 14-10, Saturday, Sept. 25, in Providence, R.I. The 1977 and 1974 teams set the school record for best start at 12-1.

In the first game, Grant Snyder and Sam De La Cruz each scored four goals to lead Air Force to a 13-8 win over MIT. The Falcons broke open a close game with five goals in the second quarter to take a 7-2 lead at the half. Snyder and De La Cruz each scored twice in the second. Corey Tanis and Henry Yavitt gave the Falcons a 9-2 lead in the third, but MIT answered with four unanswered goals to cut the AF lead to 9-6. Gavin Jones, De La Cruz and Snyder all scored early in the fourth for the Falcons' 10^th win of the season.

In the second game, Snyder had five goals and four assists while Tanis had three goals and Ian Christie had two goals and four assists. Leading 3-2 in the second quarter, two goals by Yavitt and one each by Snyder and Fuller gave the Falcons a 7-3 lead. Brown scored twice in the final minute of the second as the Falcons had a 7-5 lead at the half.

With back-to-back goals early in the third, Brown tied the game at 7-7. Tanis, Christie and Ryan McLaughlin answered for the Falcons for a 10-7 lead late in the third. Brown rallied again and cut the Falcon lead to 11-10 early in the fourth, but the Falcons put the game away with four unanswered goals.

Air Force closes out the eastern road swing at 15^th-ranked Harvard, Sunday, Sept. 21, at 10 am ET in Cambridge, Mass.

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