The #19 Middlebury men's lacrosse team battled Williams in a tightly contested matchup in the regular-season finale, but Williams slipped past the Panthers 12-11. With the loss, Middlebury finishes with a 6-4 NESCAC record.
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• Billy Curtis gave the Panthers a 2-0 lead with back-to-back tallies to open the game. He struck just one minute apart with two low sidearm goals.
• The Ephs responded when Will Doran spun around a defender and slipped an underhanded bid inside the goal with 7:24 left in the first quarter.
• Exactly two minutes later, Williams tallied a player-up goal off the stick of Jesse Shapiro, who rifled a shot into the right panel to make it 2-2.
• The Ephs took a 3-2 edge with 1:16 expired in the second stanza when Aidan Housenbold tallied an over-the-shoulder bid.
• The Panthers responded with four-consecutive tallies to take a 6-3 lead. Will Ford sparked the span with a goal into the upper left corner, while Finn McCarthy closed it out by tucking his shot inside the right pipe for the three-goal advantage.
• Williams cut the deficit to 6-4 with 1:03 remaining on the clock as Seamus Regan found nylon from the 20-yard line.
• The Ephs came out of the break strong, tallying three unanswered goals to take a 7-6 edge with 8:31 to go.
• Middlebury rattled off two tallies over 59 seconds as Russell Thorndike struck from the 30-yard line and John McCarthy drove in from midfield and found the back of the net to give the Panthers an 8-7 lead.
• A score by Patrick Jamin was sandwiched around a pair of strikes by the hosts as the teams remained deadlocked at 9-9 heading into the final frame.
• William Munroe won the opening faceoff and J. McCarthy deposited his shot into the goal just 23 ticks into the stanza to retake a 10-9 lead.
• Thorndike tallied a nifty player-up goal on a feed from Cooper DeMallie with 11:04 remaining to give the Panthers an 11-9 advantage.
• With 5:43 left on the clock, the Ephs took advantage of an extra player and sparked a three-goal run to secure the 12-11 triumph.

NOTES

• Middlebury and Williams met for the 74th time.
• Hayden Kern stopped a career-high 19 shots during the contest. 

The Panthers await their fate in the NESCAC Tournament when the seedings are announced on Wednesday evening following the conclusion of the final contest.