BEVERLY, Mass. — Graduate student Lee Sipes (Windham, N.H.) scored the game-winning goal three minutes and one second into overtime Saturday afternoon as Babson College rallied from a first-half four-goal deficit to pull out a 10-9 victory over Endicott College in non-conference men's lacrosse action at Hempstead Stadium.

With the victory, Babson improves to 3-1 on the season while Endicott drops to 0-4, which includes one loss to a nationally-ranked team and two overtime setbacks.

Sipes, senior Peter Chisholm (Westford, Mass.) and junior Matt Stucchi (Rexford, N.Y.) all finished with two goals and one assist to lead the Beavers. Junior Chi Chi Price (Hingham, Mass.) added one goal and one assist and junior Tyler Hughey (Beverly, Mass.), sophomore Jacob Tauss (San Marcos, Calif.) and first-year Colt Bordonaro (Portland, Ore.) scored one time each.

Sophomore Grey Sunderland (Bellevue, Wash.) picked up a team-high four ground balls for the Beavers in the win. Classmate Brendan Maher (Melrose, Mass.) registered a team-high four caused turnover and scooped up two ground balls and junior Kyle Sanborn (Brookfield, Conn.) finished with three caused turnovers and three ground balls. Senior Mac Mowat (Bellevue, Wash.) recorded the win in goal with a season-high 14 saves.

Junior Domenic Russo (Northborough, Mass.) scored a game-high four goals to pace the Gulls while sophomore Nick Pagluiso (Shelton, Conn.) finished with a goal and three assists. Junior Michael Hauptman (Medfield, Mass.) tallied one goal and two assists, grad student Sam Abate (Beverly, Mass.) had one goal and one helper, and juniors Nate Cuttitta (Williston, Mass.) and Max Kesicki (Katonah, N.Y.) had one goal each in the setback.

Graduate student Andrew Fithian (Marshfield, Mass.) collected a team-high five ground balls for the hosts along with two caused turnovers, while senior Kevin Flowers (Andover, Mass.) caused three turnovers and grabbed four ground balls. First-year Thomas Barker (Needham, Mass.) and grad student James Loughran (Cos Cob, Conn.) also had four ground balls each, and sophomore Christopher Tillotson (Monroe, Conn.) and junior Tim Luciano (Westport, Conn.) split time in the Endicott goal, Tillotson making 10 saves on 17 shots and Luciano finishing with 12 saves on 15 shots.

Babson fell behind 3-1 in the first five minutes, but Stucchi put in his second goal of the game and assisted Sipes on his first to knot the score at 3-3 midway through the first quarter. Endicott answered with three goals, including back-to-back strikes by Russo, to close out the first frame, and Pagluiso opened the second-quarter scoring to give the Gulls a 7-3 advantage.

The Beavers fought back to tie the score by halftime, as Price scored a with just under nine minutes to go in the second, Chisholm fed Tauss for a goal at the 6:19 mark and scored one of his own from junior Nick Solomon (Glencoe, Ill.) just 15 seconds later, and Bordonaro evened the score with 1:31 remaining to send the teams into the break at 7-7.

Babson pulled ahead 9-7 on goals by Hughey and Chisholm in the first three minutes of the third quarter, but Endicott got one back just 25 second later on a marker by Abate. The defenses tightened and goals were hard to come by the rest of the way, with the only goal a man-up marker by Kesicki from Pagluiso with 2:44 remaining in regulation to set up the overtime.

Each team had a shot sail wide in the extra session and both team caused turnovers before Sipes won it for Babson with 59 seconds remaining on the clock, when he roofed a shot into the top-right corner of the net after circling the crease from behind the cage.

The Beavers finished with a 47-39 advantage in shots while Endicott won the ground ball battle, 38-25. The Gulls converted their only man-up opportunity while Babson went 0-for-5 with the man-advantage.

Sunderland and Barker went head-to-head all afternoon on face-offs, with Barker winning 11 for the Gulls and Sunderland 10 for the Beavers.

Babson opens New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action on Saturday with a key 1 p.m. game at MacDowell Field against Coast Guard in a rematch of last year's conference tournament final. The Beavers and Bears were picked 1-2 in this spring's NEWMAC preseason coaches' poll, and both teams have received votes in national Division III polls.

GAME NOTES
• Babson has won two in a row against Endicott and is now 3-4 in the all-time series that dates back to 2003.
• The Green and White continue to spread out the scoring as seven different players tallied goals against Endicott, the third time in four games with at least six players finding the net.
• The Beavers have outscored their opponents 13-3 in the second quarter this spring and 24-24 in the first half.