BELMONT, N.C. (March 7, 2015) -
Rollins fought back and even led late in the fourth quarter at
13th-ranked Belmont Abbey on Saturday afternoon but
eventually dropped a heartbreaker in triple overtime, 11-10.
The Tars won the ground ball battle on Saturday but were outshot
by the Crusaders, 44-28.
Morgan
Baker and Adam
Stefanowicz led Rollins with a pair of goals each while Carson
Buell and Jack
Vonarb both had a goal and an assist. Alex
Petsos went 15-26 on face offs and collected a team best nine
ground balls.
For Belmont Abbey, Riley Quinlan and Connor Sellars scored four
times with three Crusaders recording a pair of assists each.
In goal, Thomas
Troiano played the entirety for the Tars, finishing with a
career high 22 saves, three away from tying a program record that
was set in 2009.
The Crusaders jumped out to a two goal lead less than a minute
into the game before the Tars fired back with four unanswered goals
by four different players to take a 4-2 lead with 14:05 left in the
second quarter.
Belmont Abbey came back with two more to tie the game heading
into the half but Rollins would answer back with three more over a
two minute span in the third to take their biggest lead at 7-4 with
11:18 left in the quarter.
The Crusaders would then come all the way back, erasing the
three goal deficit with 2:07 on the clock in the third before Jared
Selewski scored his second of the year to put Rollins back
ahead 8-7 heading to the fourth.
Both teams would again exchange punches in the final period,
both going on spurts of two unanswered scores. First Belmont Abbey
went on their run to take a 9-8 lead before goals by Stefanowicz
and Stephen
DeFlumeri gave the Tars a 10-9 with 6:55 left in the game.
Quinlan would come back to score his fourth of the day to tie
the game with 4:36 left, proving to be the last score before
Sellars ended the game in the third overtime period, ending all the
Tars' hopes of an upset.
Rollins will host Mercy on Tuesday, March 10th at 7
p.m. in their 2015 home opener. Live stream will be available on
the Geico Tars Sports Network on RollinsSports.com.
