Men's Lacrosse Falls to No. 18 Brown in Overtime Ivy Classic

Saturday, May 1

Providence, R.I.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Brown

Men's Lacrosse Falls to No. 18 Brown in Overtime Ivy Classic

5/1/2010 4:00:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

By: Dartmouth

Box Score

PROVIDENCE, RI - The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team erased a two-goal deficit in the fourth quarter, but Brown's Thomas Muldoon scored the overtime game-winner as the Big Green dropped its season finale, 10-9, in front of 3,010 fans.

Dartmouth (5-8, 2-4 Ivy) got two goals from both junior Rhett Miller (Dallas, Texas) and senior captain Ari Sussman (New Haven, Conn.). Sussman finished just two goals shy of 100 in his career. Sophomore Kip Dooley (Minneapolis, Minn.) added a goal and an assist, while most of the day belonged to the long-sticks.

Senior captain Andy Gagel (Houston, Texas) and rookie Pat Flynn (Mountain Lakes, N.J.) each netted their first collegiate goals. Senior Casey Hingtgen (Carlsbad, Calif.) picked up 11 ground balls and won 12 faceoffs. Sophomore goaltender Fergus Campbell (New Canaan, Conn.) made double-digit saves for the third straight game with 13 between the pipes.

Brown (8-5, 4-2 Ivy) heads to the Ivy League Tournament and was led by Muldoon with three goals and Reade Seligmann and Andrew Feinberg, who each tallied three points on the day. Matt Chriss may have only made nine saves, but most of the stops came in key situations in the win for the Bears.

Dartmouth controlled most of the play for the first few minutes, but failed on a couple of shots. Brown then struck on its first offensive possession with Muldoon finding the net from the outside. The Bears made it 2-0 a minute later as David Hawley also scored from the outside.

Gagel got Dartmouth on the board with 5:34 left to cut the lead to 2-1. He scooped up a loose ball at the midfield, shook off a Brown defender and moved in all alone. Gagel looked to shoot low, but beat Chriss just under the crossbar for his first collegiate goal and point. Brown went back up by two with 4:22 left on a goal by Parker Brown. He moved from behind the net and surprised Campbell with the shot.

Big Green didn't stay down long as senior Josh Etzion (Boca Raton, Fla.) found a cutting Nikki Dysenchuk (Darien, Conn.) and he buried it for Dartmouth's second of the game coming with 3:40 left in the quarter.

After Dartmouth had a great opportunity with the first man-up advantage of the game and failed to score, Seligmann targeted the net from long distance and beat Campbell for the 4-2 lead with less than 12 minutes left in the half. Miller stopped a streak of nine minutes of scoreless lacrosse. He broke around the Brown short-stick defender to the slot and fired a jump-shot past Chriss to make it a one-goal game at 4-3.

Muldoon put the Bears up by two again with 1:31 left. From behind the net, Feinberg found Muldoon all alone in front to increase the lead back to 5-3. The Bears earned their largest lead of the contest as Matt Greenberg scored 30 seconds later to make it 6-3.

Hingtgen was doing his job by winning faceoffs throughout the second quarter and on the ensuing one he broke in the offensive and put a shot on Chriss, but the netminder made the stop. Hingtgen won 6-of-10 faceoffs in the half and had an incredible seven ground balls.

The second half didn't start out well with a man-down situation early on, but Campbell came up with a huge save. The Brown offensive player was all alone, made a couple of fakes and tried to go low, but Campbell made a hockey kick save. Flynn cut the lead back down to two goals at 6-4 as he became the third long-stick player to score during the day and it was his first collegiate point.

Seligmann scored his second of the day with 10:18 left in the third at 7-4. He blew by a Big Green defender and there was nothing Campbell could do as the midfielder smoked a shot past the goaltender. Dartmouth continued to show fight as Gagel made a break into the offensive zone and found Etzion. Etzion shook Chriss and spotted Sussman at the far post for the score.

After Dartmouth could not find the net on two lengthy offensive possessions, Feinberg scored again, beating Campbell with 2:40 left in the third frame. He got the ball on the right side of Campbell and fired a simple high shot that struck the twine. Dooley made it 8-6 with 1:17 left. He made an impressive one-on-one move and no one was there to pick him up. He went in alone and made about five moves, beating a diving Chriss.

On a man-down, Dysenchuk scooped up a ground ball in the defensive zone and charged across the field, found Dooley, who then tossed a pass to Sussman. The attackman was by himself and while diving, avoided Chriss to move Dartmouth within one-goal at 8-7 with 11:23 remaining. The Big Green finally erased the lead Brown held all game long with 10:23 left as Miller snipped a shot through traffic.

Feinberg put Brown back up at 9-8 after long possession. Campbell was hugging the left post, but Feinberg was able to find the opening from a bad angle. Costabile, with a flag on the ground, showed his strength as he fought through a check and beat Chriss to tie the game at 9-9 with under two minutes left.

Each team had their opportunities in the final seconds. Dartmouth failed on a set play to Sussman, but the play of regulation came from Hingtgen. Muldoon cut to the middle with five seconds remaining, but Hingtgen stripped him of the ball.

Dartmouth won the faceoff in overtime and after calling a timeout had a great chance. Dooley, who was surprised at a pass that found his stick, gathered the ball and fired a shot, but it went high on Chriss. Brown then earned possession and score on its first chance in overtime. Muldoon had three goals on the day, but none was more important. The goal came 2:39 into the four-minute overtime.

Dartmouth loss the shot advantage as Brown held a 40-30 margin in the category, but the Big Green was just about perfect clearing the ball, earning 20 clears in 21 chances. Both teams went 0-for-3 with the extra man and Dartmouth won the faceoff battle for the first time this season with a 12-8 advantage.