Harrogate, TN – The Lincoln Memorial men's lacrosse team falls to the Mars Hill Lions in a close overtime battle 13-14.

Mars Hill was the first to score in the match, with McCallion netting the first goal with 13:44 remaining in the first quarter. The Railsplitters would then tie up the match and also take the lead, with Jenson Jones scoring his first goal of the game with 7:46 remaining, Ashton Wilson adding one less than a minute later with 6:19 remaining, and Jacob Scholz recording a goal with 5:20 remaining, all unassisted. The Lions would have the final say in the first as they add 2 more goals: Arendt with 4:08 remaining, and Woodard (Ross) with 0:05 remaining. The score going into the second quarter was tied with 3 goals each.

The Railsplitters would be the first to score in the second, with Brock Saunders posting his first goal of the match with 13:20 remaining. Mars Hill would retake the lead by adding 3 more goals: Hokenson (Ross) with 8:53 remaining, Arendt (Hecht) with 5:26 remaining, and Woodard with 2:53 remaining. LMU would tie the match up again with Gavin Reid tallying his first goal with Rhodes Conroy earning the assist with 1:04 remaining, and Conroy netting in a goal of his own with 0:21 remaining, making the score going into halftime 6-6.

LMU would have the first say in the third quarter, with Jones getting his second and third goal of the match, with him scoring with 13:20 remaining unassisted and another one with 9:07 remaining with Reid getting the assist. Mars Hill would respond with 2 goals: Nelson (Straud) with 7:39 remaining, and Kight with 5:08 remaining. Conroy would regain the lead for LMU with 4:18 remaining, with Jones posting the assist. The Lions' McCallion would score the last goal in the third with 0:03 left. The score going into the final quarter would be tied at 9.

Lincoln Memorial would start the fourth quarter with 3 goals: Alex Wegrzyn scoring with 12:40 remaining with Jones getting the assist.
Winters would score less than a minute later with 11:20 remaining with the assist coming from Reid. Koen Burdette would tally his first goal with 10:13 remaining, making the score 9-12. Mars Hill would respond with 2 goals: Nelson with 7:30 remaining and Ross with 5:35 remaining. Conroy would score for Lincoln Memorial with 2:40 remaining, with Wegrzyn earning the assist. Mars Hill would tally 2 more goals to tie up the match to force overtime: Arendt with 0:57 remaining and Ross with 0:19 remaining. The late goal from Mars Hill would force the match to go into overtime tied at 13-13.

Overtime would end quickly, as Mars Hill's Ross scored less than a minute into the overtime period with 3:26 remaining to give the Lions the win 14-13.

Jones would lead the night in points with 6, accounting for 3 goals and 3 assists, with Conroy behind him with 4 points for 3 goals and 1 assist. Reid would tally 3 points for 1 goal and 2 assists, and Wegrzyn would tally 2 points for 1 goal and 1 assist. Wilson, Saunders, Winters, Scholz, and Burdette  would all finish with 1 point each for 1 goal each. Haden Berry and John Lombel would both lead in ground balls with 9 each, and Wilson led in caused turnovers with 2. Berry would win 9/23 face offs and Brixten McKenzie would win 4/5. Connor Fitzgibbon would earn himself 15 saves.

As a team, Lincoln Memorial would post 41 shots, with 25 on goal, 25/26 clears, 33 ground balls, and 13 face offs.

With the loss, the Railsplitters move to 2-3 overall and 0-1 in conference play.

Their next match will be in Gaffney, SC as they travel to Limestone on March 8^th at 3 pm.