HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va. – A late rally for the 10th-ranked Washington and Lee men's lacrosse team came up short on Wednesday, as Hampden-Sydney scored with 3:31 left in the fourth overtime for an 11-10 final.
The Generals fall to 6-4 overall and 1-2 in conference play with the loss, while the Tigers improve to 6-3 overall and 2-0 in the ODAC with the win. It marked W&L's first game to reach a fourth overtime since an 8-7 loss at Hampden-Sydney on April 12, 2003.
After three extra periods of play did not yield a winner, including a 7-4 shot advantage from Hampden-Sydney in that time, Campion White tallied the winner with 3:31 left in the fourth extra frame to end the game. The Tigers won the stanza's opening face-off and proceeded to call a timeout after 15 seconds had passed to set up the game-winning play.
The Generals trailed by a mark of 9-4 heading into the fourth quarter, but showed life with two goals in just over three minutes to open the period, one from senior
Hudson Pokorny (Darien, Conn. / Darien) and one from sophomore
Hillis Burns (Louisville, Ky. / St. Xavier). Sophomore
Jack Elliott (Suffolk, Va. / Norfolk Academy) tallied the next score at 7:39, followed by another Burns goal with 5:51 left in regulation to get W&L back within a goal.
After H-SC's Ray O'Brien boosted the Tigers' lead back to two with 3:43 left, sophomore
Riley Albregts (Mountain Lakes, N.J. / Mountain Lakes) answered just 10 seconds later to get the goal back. Senior
Boots Lackey (Alexandria, Va. / The Heights School), who assisted on Albregts' goal, then tied the game 14 seconds later off a feed from first-year
Elliot Cohen (Stamford, Conn. / Taft School).
The Tigers shut W&L out in both the first and third quarters, leading 3-0 after the opening frame. W&L put four goals up in the second quarter, which included two scores and an assist from Pokorny, before another 3-0 period from H-SC in the third gave the Tigers their 9-4 lead.
Pokorny finished with a game-high five points on three goals and two assists, his fourth five-point game this season and fourth straight outing with at least three points. Burns finished with three points on two goals and one helper, while Cohen, Lackey and Elliott each contributed one goal and one assist. Junior
Will Bou (Chevy Chase, Md. / Landon) finished the day winning 12-of-21 face-offs, and he added four ground balls.
Lackey picked up four ground balls and caused two turnovers, and senior
Harris Hubbard (Madison, Miss. / Highland Park (Texas)) led W&L with three caused turnovers, in addition to three ground balls picked up. First-year
Colin Beatty (Summit, N.J. / Summit) finished with a team-high seven ground balls and sophomore
Brian Barringer (Sudbury, Mass. / Lincoln Sudbury Regional) came in next with six.
In goal, senior
Warren Seeds (Atlanta, Ga. / Westminster) (1-1) got his second start of the season and made 13 saves across the game's 72:29 of action.
White (two goals, one assist) and O'Brien (three goals) were two of three Tigers to finish with a team-high three points in the game, joining Michael Leone, who had three assists. Talmadge Hope and Patrick Hanes both scored twice and Patrick Saunders assisted on two goals to round-out the multi-point performances from H-SC. Nick Thompson won 12-of-22 battles at the face-off X and notched a game-high eight ground balls.
Thomas Harry and Nick Morgan both forced two turnovers for the Tigers, with Harry picking up five ground balls and Morgan grabbing four. Gaines Weis matched Morgan with four ground balls and two caused turnovers, while Jack Fetcher forced three turnovers and picked up six ground balls. Will Perry made 15 saves across all 72:29 of action to pick up the win in goal.
W&L was forced into 28 turnovers on the day while the Tigers committed 27, in what was the first game of the season in which W&L committed more turnovers than its opponents. Both teams picked up 47 ground balls and went 13-of-26 apiece on face-offs.
The Generals will return home for their next game, a 5:00 pm start on Saturday against Bridgewater.
