BOX SCORE

MANSFIELD, Conn. -- First-year junior attack Grant Albertson (New Canaan, Conn.) scored his second goal of the game on a pass from sophomore midfielder Salieu Bolivar (Norwalk, Conn.) with 18.7 seconds left to give the Eastern Connecticut State University (1-1) men's lacrosse team a 12-11 victory over Babson College (1-3) Wednesday night.

Eastern led 9-5 midway through the third quarter, but Babson ripped off a 6-2 run, capped off by junior Armand Wilson's (Fairfield, Conn.) game-tying goal with just under a minute left. After a timeout,  Eastern junior midfielder Eric Vasil (Southington, Conn.) won the ensuing faceoff to give Eastern possession. The Warriors maintained possession after the ball went out of bounds, and with 18.7 seconds left, Bolivar fed un unmarked Albertson stationed at the left of the cage. Vasil, last year's national leader in faceoff percentage and ground balls, then won his 23rd faceoff in 27 tries, scooping up his 20th ground ball to seal the win.

Babson freshman attack Alex Patinkin (Providence, R.I.) scored three of his game-high five goals to ignite the Beavers' second-half rally. Eastern freshman attack Matthew Janssen (Hillsborough, N.J.) scored two of his team-high four goals in the fourth quarter. His first goal of the quarter gave Eastern a 10-8 lead and his second came on an extra-man opportunity and lifted Eastern into an 11-10 lead with eight minutes left in the game. Neither team scored for the next seven minutes until Wilson scored from in close on a pass from junior defenseman Christian Ebert (Boxford, Mass.) to tie the game at 11-11 with 52 seconds left.

Senior co-captain Mike Saucier (Nashua, N.H.) finished with 12 saves in net for the Beavers.

The win was the fifth straight and tenth in 14 meetings in this series for Eastern, ranked in a tie for 11th in the first New England Division III poll.

NOTE: Taken from an Eastern Connecticut State University press release.