LANCASTER, Pa. – For the first 15 minutes of Wednesday's game, the Kenyon College Lords lacrosse team held its own against the powerful Franklin & Marshall University Diplomats, who entered the 2015 season ranked as a top-20 team. The Lords, however, couldn't maintain that pace and finished on the short side of a 15-8 final score.

Kenyon sophomore Robert Jacobs, the reigning North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week, entered the game with 11 goals in the team's first two games. He pumped in two more scores in the first quarter to raise his season total to a team-best 13. Classmate Alex Lopez also scored twice in the first quarter and knotted things up 4-4 after the Lords trailed 4-2 nine minutes into the game.

Before the first quarter expired, Kenyon senior Nick Lenard circled the back of the Diplomats' net and found an open man in Jonah Florence. The freshman let loose a shot that gave Kenyon a 5-4 lead and a huge helping of momentum going into the second stanza.

Things, however, didn't play out exactly as the Lords thought they would. Once the teams got back on the field, Franklin & Marshall went on an eight-goal tear that just about put the game out of reach for the Lords. During that second-quarter rush, in which two of the eight goals scored were with a man advantage, the Diplomats' Teddy Bossidy and Sean Rogers each found twine twice to put the Lords in a 12-5 hole at the half.

Kenyon tightened things up a bit on the defensive end and allowed just two third-quarter goals, however, it wasn't until the 11:03 mark of the fourth quarter that the Lords offense finally got on the scoreboard again. Kenyon wrapped up the game with fourth-quarter tallies from Lopez, Pat Kim, and J.T. Meyer.

Lopez and Kim led Kenyon with three-points apiece. Lopez reached that mark with three goals, while Kim chalked up a goal and two assists. Jacobs had two points on two goals and Florence had a pair of points on a goal and an assist.

Kenyon (2-1) cranked out 18 shots in the final quarter to make the overall shooting stats 49-40 in favor of Franklin & Marshall. The Lords had just two man-up up opportunities and scored on one of them. The Diplomats went man-up five times and scored twice.

In net, Kenyon junior Patrick Shevelson played all 60 minutes and made ten saves.

Michael Bossidy finished the game with four goals for Franklin & Marshall (1-1), which had four others net two scores apiece.