GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The Calvin men's lacrosse team fell short against the Albion Britons on Wednesday afternoon. The Britons topped the Knights, 17-6. Calvin moves to 5-8 on the year and 0-4 in the MIAA. Albion remains undefeated in MIAA action at 4-0 and improves to 8-4 on the season.

"One of the things we have been focusing on is playing with pride," said head coach Luke Griemsman. "We are not going back to the bad habits we have had. We have to try to battle through the whole game and that is a tough thing with the limited numbers we have. Things could be a lot worse but it is the pride that we just kept going back to and it helped us today."

The Knights got on the scoreboard first on Wednesday with Calvin scoring on a man advantage. Junior Joel Schaefer put the ball in the back of the net off of a pass from junior Chris Griffin.

The Knights led after the first quarter, 1-0.

The Britons responded with two-straight goals to retake the lead.

Chris Griffin tied the game at two with 11:38 remaining in the second quarter, with an assist to freshman Jonathan Miller.

Albion scored eight-straight goals to regain the lead.

Joel Schaefer put the ball in the back of the net again with 1:19 remaining in the half. Chris Griffin was credited with an assist.

The Britons went into halftime leading, 9-3.

Jonathan Miller cut the Albion to 10-4 with a goal with 9:33 remaining in the third quarter.

Albion scored the final five goals of the quarter to lead 15-4, after 45 minutes.

Joel Schaefer was able to get the ball past the Albion goaltender with 5:06 remaining in the game.

Freshman Jonathan Miller cut the Albion lead to 16-6 with a goal at the 2:46 mark of the fourth quarter.

Freshman Tristan Parece recorded 20 saves on the day.

Calvin returns to action on Saturday when the Knights travel to Adrian.