Roanoke vs. Lynchburg
May 18, 2005

| Scoring | |
|---|---|
| Jon Mason | (3, 0) |
| Matt Duke | (2, 0) |
| Zack Thomas | (1, 1) |
| Dan Reed | (1, 1) |
| Chris Keating | (1, 1) |
| Adam Leahy | (0, 1) |
| Ryan Wilkerson | (1, 0) |
| Brendan Moore | (1, 0) |
| Saves | |
|---|---|
| Matt Madalon | 10 (0.526) |
| Current Record | |
|---|---|
| Roanoke | 15-2 |
| go to Roanoke page | |

| Scoring | |
|---|---|
| Brian Kemper | (1, 1) |
| Brian Mcculloch | (1, 1) |
| Billy Mcculloch | (2, 0) |
| Ryan Quick | (1, 1) |
| Adam Gift | (1, 0) |
| Ryan Cranston | (1, 0) |
| Johnny Black | (1, 0) |
| Aj Tinklepaugh | (1, 0) |
| Saves | |
|---|---|
| Garrett Curran | 14 (0.583) |
| David Schnur | 1 (1.000) |
| Current Record | |
|---|---|
| Lynchburg | 13-5 |
| go to Lynchburg page | |
| The Game Story: | |||||
| SALEM, VA--The leading goal-scorer in NCAA Division III men's lacrosse, Jon Mason, scored his most important goal of the season, getting a goal with 11 seconds remaining in the contest to give the Roanoke College Maroons a 10-9 NCAA Quarterfinal win over Lynchburg College in Salem, VA on Wednesday. With the win, the Maroons, who are now 15-2 on the season, advance to the national semifinals where they will square off against two-time defending national champion Salisbury University. The game will be played at Salisbury at 1:00pm on Sunday afternoon. The Maroons are making their first NCAA Division III national semifinal appearance since the 1992 season. After the Hornets mounted a fourth-quarter comeback, battling back from as many as three goals down to even the score at nine on a Brian Kemper goal with 1:09 left, Mason pulled off his heroics. Maroon freshman Billy Cameron won the ensuing face-off. After a timeout, the Maroons ran a play, but were stripped of the ball. The loose ball, however, went off an LC defender out of bounds, giving Roanoke back possession. With about 20 seconds left, Mason began his move to the goal, bulling his way to the crease, ducking under an LC defender, and slipping the ball past Hornet goalie Garrett Curran on the near-side pipe. Cameron then won the game's final face-off, ensuring the Maroon victory. Throughout the first half of play, the Maroons took the lead on three different occasions, but each time the Hornets had an answer. Mason opened the game's scoring, but Ryan Quick answered for the Hornets three minutes later. With eight minutes left in the first, Chris Keating struck for Roanoke, but 1:30 later it was AJ Tinklepaugh that evened the score. The second period of play saw each team score just once, sending the game into the break deadlocked at three. Freshman Zack Thomas scored for Roanoke, Brian McCulloch tallied an the extra-man for the Hornets. It wasn't until Matt Duke opened the third with an unassisted goal from about 10 yards out, and Brendan Moore finished a Dan Reed pass on the crease that the Maroons built themselves a little cushion. But again, Lynchburg did not go away, getting a man-up tally from Adam Gift and an even strength score from Billy McCulloch to make the score 5-5. Before the third period was up, the Maroons again surged ahead by two, going up on the strength of Mason's second score of the day, and on a Matt Duke off-hand shot from 10 yards out. Senior Dan Reed opened the scoring in the fourth to give the Maroons a three-goal cushion, 8-5. Lynchburg's Ryan Cranston made a one-on-one move from behind the cage to bring the Hornets to within 8-6 with 11:02 left in the game, and Johnny Black scored on an LC fastbreak with 8:34 left to make the score 8-7. Black's goal came as a Maroon defender lifted his stick, but the loose ball deflected off of another Maroon defender across the goal line. The Maroons got a lift from an unlikely source when Ryan Wilkerson scored only his fourth goal of the season, on an Adam Leahy assist, to give the Maroons a 9-7 edge. Again that lead was not safe, as Billy McCulloch and Kemper scored goals in the final four minutes to even things up at nine. Kemper had an assist on the McCulloch score. The Hornets got an outstanding effort in goal from freshman Garrett Curran, who made 14 saves while facing 44 Maroon shots in the game. Seven of his saves came in the first period of play. Matt Madalon stopped 10 shots in the win for the Maroons, eight coming in the final three periods. |
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