COLUMBUS. Ohio – Dartmouth men's lacrosse had a great performance in the first two quarters but struggled with a scoreless second half, falling to No. 9 Ohio State by a score of 12-6 at Ohio Stadium on Tuesday evening. Henry Bonnie and Peter Lapina had two points apiece to lead the team, while three other players recorded one point each. Tommy Rogan and Daniel Hincks had five ground balls, and Mitchell Myers won seven faceoffs. In net, Hincks had 14 saves. Dartmouth (4-2) at Ohio State (6-2) After the home team scored 63 seconds into the first quarter, unassisted tallies by Matt Paul and Bonnie a minute and a half apart put the Big Green ahead by one, an edge that didn't last for long. George Prince added one of his own sandwiched between a pair of Buckeye goals to tie things at three, while one more for the other team with 2:03 to go gave them the one-goal lead. Lapina scored with 7.3 seconds remaining to make it a 4-4 game heading to the second quarter. Having seen eight goals netted in the first 15 minutes, the second was quieter. Bonnie was the one to break the tie halfway through with his second of the contest, and Colin McGill's man-up tally with 5:36 left gave Dartmouth a two-goal cushion. OSU netted the final two to tie the score at the half (6-6). The Buckeyes took control after the break, scoring five goals to make it seven in a row and give them an 11-6 advantage. After not getting many good looks early in the third quarter, the Green tested OSU goalie Skylar Wahlund multiple times later on, but he always came up with the save. It was shaping up to be a quarter with zero goals until the Buckeyes broke through in the final three minutes with the only tally of the fourth. Ben DiGiovanni hit the post with 10 ticks to go, ending the game. Dartmouth outshot OSU, 12-5, in the final quarter. On Saturday, March 26, Dartmouth will open Ivy League play on the road against Harvard.