The Middlebury men's lacrosse team improved to 3-1 on the season with a 13-11 road win at St. Lawrence (2-2) on Tuesday afternoon. The Panthers scored the first five goals of the second half en route to the win in the Saints home opener at Hall-Leet Stadium. Middlebury returns to action when it hosts Wesleyan on Saturday.

The Panthers trailed the Saints by an 8-6 tally at the half, but outscored SLU 4-0 in the third quarter to take a 10-8 lead on Nick Peterson's goal with 1:52 to go in the period. Nate Smith-Ide made it an 11-8 game 1:09 into the fourth quarter before the Saints got it back to a one-goal game on Austin Nadeau's goal to make it 11-10 with 6:45 to go. Jon Broome and Jack Rautiola answered for the Panthers to make it 13-10 with 2:58 remaining. St. Lawrence's Tommy Hovey scored his third goal of the game with just four seconds left for the 13-11 final.

Middlebury jumped out to an early 3-1 lead, but Conor Healy and Hovey brought the Saints back and had SLU in front 5-3 after one quarter. The two teams each scored three second-period goals, two of them by Jeremy Vautour for the Saints and two for Middlebury by Tim Giarrusso to give the Saints their 8-6 halftime advantage.

Panther goalie Will Ernst kept Middlebury in contention with 10 of his 16 saves in the first half, as SLU had a 23-14 edge in shots in the first 30 minutes. Nick Ford made 13 saves for the Saints.

Rautiola had three goals and an assist to lead the Middlebury offense, while Giarrusso had two goals and an assist. Jack Cleary added a pair of goals for the visitors.

Healy led the Saints with three goals and two assists, while Hovey had three goals and Vautour and Duprey two each.