ROCK ISLAND -- The Augustana Vikings men's lacrosse team picked up a Senior Day victory over the Carroll Pioneers on Saturday, winning by a score of 11-5.

Brady Holtz notched the first two scores of the game within 21 seconds of one another, each coming off assists of Jack Connolly and Jake Moore. Carroll answered with a tally to cut the deficit in half around the seven-minute mark, but the Vikings added two more before the end of the frame on strikes by Connolly and Holtz. All four goals in the opening 15 minutes came via an assist. Augustana led 4-1 after one quarter of play.

Less than a minute into the second, Moore earned a goal on a pass from Carson Ghys to move the Augie margin out to four. The Pioneers snatched their second point of the contest three minutes later, but the final two scores of the half belonged to the Vikings after Holtz and Graham Shap added to the team's total in the final three minutes. Augie's advantage sat at 7-2 at the break. A low-scoring quarter followed, but Augustana stretched its differential further out following a 2-1 third-quarter margin. Ghys and Holtz tallied goals within the first five minutes of the second half and held the Pioneers scoreless for nearly the first 10 minutes before the visitors got their first and only goal of the quarter. The two teams played to a 2-2 fourth quarter, with Holtz and Elijah Graesser accounting for the final two points for Augustana.

Holtz led all scorers in the win with six goals on 11 shots. The team boasted eight assists on its 11 makes, with three coming from Connolly and two via Ghys and Moore. Defensively, Caiden McCann led the team with two caused turnovers and picked up five ground balls. Trevor Herman finished the afternoon 8-10 on faceoff attempts and grabbed a team-best six ground balls. Senior Gus Magnusson earned the win in net after stopping 17 shots.

With the victory, Augie improves to 4-8 on the season 1-2 in the CCIW. The team will be back in action on Tuesday at North Central.