WESTMINSTER, Md. - A five-goal run over the second and third quarters carried Franklin & Marshall to a narrow 7-3 victory over the McDaniel College men's lacrosse team Saturday inside Gill Stadium.

The Green Terror (4-7, 0-3 CC) allowed just seven goals, the fewest in the last 12 meetings against the Diplomats, since a 7-3 loss at home on April 6, 2013.

Senior Jason Fritz had two points with a goal and an assist and now has 98 goals and 95 assists for 193 points in 54 career games.

Franklin & Marshall (10-2, 4-0 CC) opened the scoring just 1:13 into the first quarter, but neither team scored again until the 8:26 mark of the second quarter when Fritz tied the game at 1-1 with his 22nd goal of the season.

However, just 1:27 later, Alex Pilling scored his first goal of the season for the first of five unanswered goals for the visitors as they took a 6-1 lead with 13:57 remaining in the third. Pilling scored twice during the run.

Sophomore Carter Youtz scored in his sixth-straight game with 11:30 left in the third quarter before Charlie Bernicker gave the Diplomats a 7-2 advantage wth 6:16 to play in the third.

Trailing by five, sophomore Aidan Skelly scored off an assist from Fritz at the 7:15 mark of the fourth, but that would be as close as the Green Terror could get despite out-shooting the visitors, 11-6 in the final quarter.

Franklin & Marshall led 6-1 at halftime after holding a 26-10 advantage in shots and winning six of eight face-offs.

In his first career start, freshman Aaron Ewing led McDaniel with four ground balls while graduate student Thomas Bethune had three ground balls and one caused turnover. Sophomore Zach Olvey made 10 saves, his eighth game in 12 starts this season with at least 10.

The Green Terror travel to Washington College on Wednesday for a 7 p.m. face-off against the Shoremen.