WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Down by five goals in the third quarter, Lycoming College's Billy Farrell (Havertown, Pa./Haverford) was falling down. As his knee hit the ground, his stick came forward and the resulting bouncer found the net. The goal sparked a nine-goal second half as Lycoming's men's lacrosse team came from behind to post an 11-8 MAC Commonwealth win over Hood College on Saturday afternoon, April 1.
 
Hood (6-4 overall, 0-2 MAC Commonwealth) scored a minute and a half after the goal by Farrell, but the goal began to change momentum, as Lycoming (3-5 overall, 1-1 MAC Commonwealth) scored the game's last eight goals to overcome the 8-3 deficit.
 
Junior Garrett Huff (Corning, N.Y./Corning East) paced the run with a goal and three assists and he started it as he found freshman Richie Hurley (Cranford, N.J./Cranford) for a man-up goal with 7:30 left in the third quarter.
 
Huff followed that by finding some space and zooming in a 15-yarder with 3:57 left and the Warriors continued to take advantage of breaks, with sophomore Travis Rode (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) coming breaking out in transition after the ball was flipped 10 yards out of a scrum in the final minute of the third quarter. Rode cleared the ball easily and the ball found freshman Drew Collins (Victor, N.Y./Victor), who made an extra pass to freshman Nick George (Shamong, N.J./Seneca) for an easy goal to make it 8-6 heading into the fourth quarter.
 
In the fourth quarter, the Warriors continued to push, with Hurley falling and firing outside the crease, as the shot hit the post, went off the goalkeeper's back and trickled in to make it a one-goal game with 14:08 left. Nearly a minute later, freshman Tyler Thompson (Napean, Ontario/Mother Teresa) tied the game by whipping in a hard shot over the goalie's left shoulder.
 
From there, both teams had multiple opportunities, but Hood was stuffed by sophomore goalkeeper Michael Tenant (Baltimore, Md./Calvert Hall), the second on a failed clear attempt that led to a point-blank shot from Grayson Zubradt that Tenant cleared away. The Warriors forced a turnover with 4:30 left, though, and made the most of the opportunity, as senior Peter Pluta (Honeoye Falls, N.Y./Honeoye Falls-Lima) ripped a hard shot into the net off a give from Huff with 3:44 left.
 
After George won the next faceoff, the Warriors struck again, with Huff getting a groundball off a contested ball and then sprinting to hit left, he hit Rode in front of the net for another score. The team's final goal came from Hurley with 1:12 left.
 
Hood scored the first four goals in the game's first 10 minutes before George scored his first goal with 2:14 left in the first quarter. The Blazers, though, continued to get scoring chances, taking a 7-2 lead with 2:18 left in the first half after a score by Tristen Moreno.
 
The Warriors won the game's last three faceoffs thanks to George, who won 6-of-8 in the game to go with two goals and five groundballs. Hurley led the team, finishing with three goals and an assist and Huff added a goal and a career-best four assists. Collins added two assists and two caused turnovers. Thompson scooped up four groundballs and Rode, sophomore Eric Schutta (Frenchtown, N.J./Delaware Valley Regional) and freshman Grant Huff (Corning, N.Y./Corning-Painted Post) each had three groundballs.
 
Zubradt and Moreno led Hood with two goals each. Zach Kauffman led the team with six groundballs, winning 11-of-21 faceoffs.
 
In net, Tenant (3-5) stopped 10 shots, with seven coming in the second half to earn the win. Hood's John Hoffman (6-4) stopped 12 shots, eight in the first half, in the loss.
 
The Warriors get back on the field on Tuesday, April 4, when they head to Stevenson for a 7 p.m. MAC Commonwealth game.