Teams: Men's Lacrosse: Schedule & Results

CONNELLY'S GOAL GIVE JUMBOS IMPRESSIVE ROAD WIN AT ROANOKE

COLLEGE MEN'S LACROSSE FINAL SCORE
Tufts 13    Roanoke 12

At Salem, VA
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Game Box Score

SALEM, Va. -- Tufts University senior Chris Connelly (Wilton, CT) scored a man-up goal with 1:19 left in the game to give the visiting Tufts University men's lacrosse team a 13-12 win over host Roanoke on Tuesday afternoon. The Jumbos, the nation's 15th-ranked team, improve to 3-0 on the season. Roanoke, which entered the game ranked 18th in the nation, falls to 5-3 with its second consecutive loss.

Tied at 12 with 1:35 left in the contest, the Maroons were called for a one-minute penalty. The Jumbos quickly took advantage, getting the game-winning goal 16 seconds later. Senior tri-captain Mark Warner (Wading River, NY) fed a pass from behind the cage to Connelly, up top, who scored on a 15-yard shot, Tufts' fifth man-up goal of the day. The Jumbos, who won just nine of the game's 29 face-offs, won the ensuing face-off, however, and were able to run time off the clock. Roanoke forced two turnovers but each time failed on a clear attempt, the second with less than 10 seconds to play.

Connelly's goal capped a four-goal second half comeback for the Jumbos. The Maroons led 8-5 at halftime and went up 9-5 early in the second half on a Jon Mason tally. The Jumbos battled back and with 4:05 left in the third got a Clem McNally (Farhills, NJ) score off of a broken RC clear. That goal tied the game at nine.

The Maroons closed the third period with a 10-9 lead after Pat March dodged from behind the cage and scored with 1:48 left. Mason then gave the Maroons a two-goal cushion with his fourth of the game, that to start the fourth. After McNally scored a man-up goal with 12:36 left, the Maroons took advantage of a failed Tufts clear, getting a score from Zach Thomas, that with 10:38 left to give the Maroons a 12-10 lead.

Conner Ginsberg (New Haven, CT) scored back-to-back goals midway through the fourth period to even the score at 12, setting up late game-winning, man-up tally from Connelly. In addition the five man-up goals, the Jumbos also got a short-handed goal, that from Mike Cortese (Saratoga Springs, NY) in the second period, a goal that tied the game at five.

Tufts opens its conference schedule this coming weekend, traveling to #3 Wesleyan University. Roanoke opens its 2007 Old Dominion Athletic Conference schedule on Saturday with a home game against the Generals of Washington & Lee University.

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