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NORWALK, Conn. -- A 10-1 second-half scoring surge enabled Nazareth turn a close game into romp Monday as the 16th-ranked Golden Flyers delivered a 17-5 men's lacrosse victory over Western New England in a game played at Brien McMahon High School.

The Golden Flyers won for the third straight time to improve to 3-1 overall. WNEC is 2-2.

Nazareth scored the game's first three goals and never trailed, but the Golden Bears stayed within striking distance in the first half, closing to within 4-3 before the Golden Flyers settled for a 7-4 lead at the break. Nazareth dominated the third quarter with five goals and then scored five more times in the fourth after WNEC netted its only second-half score early in the fourth quarter.

Senior attackman Joe Jacobs-Ferderbar scored five goals and added one assist and senior middie Adam Nauerth added a career-best four goals. Junior attackman #C.J. Estes scored twice and had two assists and senior middie Scott Castle# also scored twice.

Jacobs-Ferderbar scored two of his goals in the first quarter as Nazareth built a 4-1 advantage. Freshman Trevar Haefele opened the scoring with his first career goal off a pass from Doug Milano-Johnson and Estes followed less than two minutes later with junior attackman Nate DeLone assisting.

WNEC scored the first two goals of the second quarter to trim Nazareth's lead to 4-3, but Castle delivered a man-up goal off an assist from Jacobs-Ferderbar to enable Nazareth to regain its two-goal cushion. Goals by Nauerth and sophomore Brian Wright followed before halftime.

Nazareth outshot WNEC 10-4 in the third quarter with five of those shots finding the mark. Jacobs-Ferderbar scored twice with Nauerth, Estes and Milano-Johnson also scoring.

The fourth quarter was highlighted by the first career goal for senior middie Joel Tully. Nauerth also had two more goals with Jacobs-Ferderbar and Castle also contributing.

Nazareth had a 36-28 advantage  in shots and a 41-25 edge in ground balls. Senior defenseman Mitchel Frey and senior midfielder Kyle McLean each had seven ground balls and senior defenseman Brian Orr had five.

Junior Grant Williams played most of the minutes in goal and had nine saves.

Nazareth plays again Wednesday against Bowdoin at Sacred Heart University at 12 p.m.