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Freshman goalie Lane Edwards stops a potential scoring play. Photo provided
Oglethorpe men's lacrosse ends season with first-ever conference win
The Oglethorpe men’s lacrosse
team outscored the Millsaps
Majors 5-2 in the fourth quarter of
their final game of the season April
10 to win 13-12 win for their first-
ever Southern Athletic Association
victory.
The victory also serves as their
first of the year overall and means
that they finish in seventh place
in the league standings, marking
the highest they’ve ever finished in
the SAA and tying for their highest
conference finish ever.
Down 10-8 entering the fourth
quarter, the Petrels responded
by scoring five straight goals to
wrest control of the game from the
Majors and build a 13-10 lead with
4:15 to go. Freshman middie Tyler
Stridiron began the scoring with
13:26 left in the game, making it
10-9.
Sophomore attackman John
Hood then followed up to tie the
score with 12:05 to play. The
Petrels took the lead less than
30 seconds later when junior
attackman Andrew Houghton
found the cage to make it 11-10.
The home side was then able to
expand its lead out with another
goal from Stridiron with 6:18
remaining and what turned out
to be a huge goal from freshman
middie Thomas O’Berry with 4:15
to play.
With a 13-10 lead, the Petrels
set about trying to make the lead
stand up for their first SAA win.
Millsaps drew a goal closer with
1:16 left, then pulled to within a
single goal, 13-12, with 30 seconds
remaining. Freshman defenseman
Andrew Kwapil won the faceoff,
though, with freshman middie
Nathaniel Gillespie picking up
the ground ball. The Petrels were
then able to play keep-away for the
remainder of the contest, giving
them the 13-12 win.
Leading 7-6 after the halftime
break, Millsaps outscored the
Petrels 3-2 in the third quarter to
build their 10-8 lead. The Petrels
stayed in it, though, picking up a
man-up goal from Stridiron and a
tally from Gillespie, who broke the
single-season program record for
goals on the afternoon. He finishes
the season with 31 goals, scoring
four on the day.
The Petrels took a brief lead in
the second period. After the Majors
scored back-to-back goals to give
themselves a 5-3 lead early in the
quarter, the Petrels responded with
three straight tallies of their own.
Hood scored twice, sandwiched
around a Gillespie goal, to give
Oglethorpe a 6-5 lead with 8:36
remaining in the half. Millsaps
answered that with back-to-back
goals to take a 7-6 lead going into
the break.
The first quarter saw Millsaps
bounce out to a 3-1 lead, but
the Petrels scored consecutive
markers to end the quarter and tie
things at 3-3. Gillespie scored twice
in the period and Hood’s goal with
25 seconds left made it 3-3 through
the opening 15 minutes.
Hood joined Gillespie with four
goals of his own, putting seven of
his eight shots on target. Freshman
goalie Lane Edwards extended
his single-season record for saves,
tallying 24 more on the afternoon
to finish with a 238 on the season.
The Petrels won the game
despite being outshot 69-36 overall
and 36-25 on goal. The 24 saves
Edwards made proved to be a
huge difference in the contest.
“Getting our first-ever SAA
win is a fantastic result to finish
the season on,” Oglethorpe
head coach Nathan Young said.
“The guys faced such adversity
throughout this whole year. They
fought hard not only in today’s
game, but over the course of the
entire season. I could not be any
prouder of these guys and of
the character that they showed
to push through the struggles of
this season. They truly are why
I coach at Oglethorpe and why
this program will be successful for
years to come.”
Baseball Scores
April 7
Marist 5, Gordon Lee 4
Jordan (Utah) 5, Lakeside 3
April 8
Columbia 9, Newton 8
Southwest DeKalb 8, Arabia
Mountain 6
Stephenson 12, Cedar Grove 11
East Paulding 7, Lakeside 2
North Springs 14, Chamblee 4
April 9
Arabia Mountain 13,
Stephenson 10
Decatur 11, Druid Hills 4
Decatur 6,Tucker 5
Lakeside 7, Chattahoochee 6
IMG Academy Blue (Fla.) 10,
Lakeside 0
Columbus 5, Marist 4
GAC 8, Redan 7