Knotted at 10-10 with 10:38 showing on the clock, the #19 Middlebury men's lacrosse team tallied four unanswered goals to top Connecticut College 14-10.
HIGHLIGHTS
- With just over a minute expired in the opening quarter, the Camels got on the board when Jack Tenzer made a move around a defender and found the bottom left corner of the goal.
- The Panthers answered at the 12:47 mark when Patrick Jamin slotted his shot from 10-yards out inside the left pipe to make it 1-1.
- Connecticut College tallied a pair of markers to take a 3-1 edge. Bobby Chang almost turned the ball over, but scooped up his own ground ball and scored, before finding the net through traffic while a player-up with 6:24 remaining.
- Cooper DeMallie spoiled the run at the 4:42 mark when he tucked the ball inside the left panel to make it 3-2, but Camels' Liam Horkan and JJ Ford scored back-to-back tallies with less than 30 seconds to go for a 5-2 lead.
- Middlebury came out strong in the second stanza, rattling off three-straight markers. Henry Tarr caused a turnover in the defensive end, grabbed his ground ball and raced up the field to score at the 13:23 mark. Tarr struck again just over two minutes later, before Tom Conley ripped a shot into the lower left corner to tie the contest at 5-5.
- Connecticut College broke up the Middlebury run with 5:11 remaining in the half with a sidearm shot from Aidan McAvoy, but Conley and Logan White responded to give the Panthers a 7-6 edge at the half.
- Middlebury opened the scoring in the third stanza, with the teams trading five goals. Russell Thorndike capped the quarter with a shot into the upper right corner while on the player-up advantage for the 10-8 edge.
- The Camels would not go away, with Horkan tallying twice in the opening minutes to knot the contest at 10 goals apiece. The equalizer came with 10:38 left on the clock, as Horkan's initial bid was denied by Panther goalie Hayden Kern, but the Camel picked up his own ground ball and fired it into the net.
- Middlebury responded with four unanswered goals, sparked by a tally from DeMallie with nine minutes left in the game. William Ryan tallied twice during the span, sandwiched around a bouncing goal from Drew Dummer, for the 14-10 triumph.
NOTES
- The programs met for the 37th time with Middlebury improving to 31-6 in the all-time series.
- Conley tallied a season-high six points (3G, 3A) during the win, while J.D. Farkas scooped up a team-best five rollers.
- DeMallie recorded his second hat trick of the year.
The Panthers hit the road for two weeks, starting with an away game at Springfield on Tuesday at 5:00 p.m.