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RADNOR, Pa. – Junior Tom O'Donnell (Montgomeryville, Pa./La Salle College) scored the game-winning goal with 32 seconds left in the first overtime and the No. 2-ranked Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team held on to beat No. 9 Cabrini College 9-8 in a non-conference nail-biter Wednesday afternoon.
Gettysburg (6-0), which was playing its first overtime game since a 12-11 win at SUNY Cortland in 2004, received three goals apiece from sophomore Joe Brody (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) and senior Jared Harriman (Yarmouth, Maine/Yarmouth) while senior Ben Sufrin (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) handed out a career-high three assists. For Brody, it was his sixth consecutive hat trick to open the season.
Junior goalie Zachary Furshman (Miami, Fla./Kent School (Conn.)) entered the game at the beginning of the second half and made seven saves to earn his first collegiate win. Senior Trip Dyer (Ocean View, Del./Worcester Prep (Md.)) distributed two assists and his now two points shy of 100 for his career.
Rich Romanelli led Cabrini (4-1) with three goals while Kevin Chenoweth stopped eight shots in a losing effort.
In an extremely close game, neither team led by more than two the entire afternoon. The Cavaliers scored the first two goals, but the Bullets scored twice inside the last 1:08 of the first quarter to make it 2-2 after 15 minutes of play. Brody scored with just over a minute left before junior Zach Pucci (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) deposited a shot two seconds before the horn to tie it at 2-2. Neither team would lead by more than one the rest of the way, and the score would be deadlocked six more times before O'Donnell's game-winner.
Gettysburg led 5-4 after Brody scored back-to-back goals 6:04 apart in the second quarter, his final goal of the game coming with just seven seconds left in the opening half. However, Casey Grugan scored with one tick showing to make it a 5-5 game at the break.
With the game tied 6-6, junior Rob Triplett (McLean, Va./McLean) scored a man-up goal with 6:46 left in the third quarter. Then with 45 seconds on the clock, Harriman notched his second man-up goal of the game and his second goal of the quarter, giving the Bullets an 8-7 lead heading into the final period.
Grugan scored his second goal of the game just seven seconds into the fourth quarter, and that would turn out to be the only scoring of the stanza. The Cavaliers managed nine more shots in the quarter, but Furshman came up big, making four saves. Four of Gettysburg's seven fourth-quarter shots were saved by Chenoweth.
After 4:00 were put on the clock for the extra session, the Bullets took only one shot before O'Donnell's strike. Defensively, however, Gettysburg held Cabrini to one shot in the overtime period.
Junior Charles Floeckher (Lutherville, Md./Boys Latin School) played the opening half in goal for the Bullets and finished with three saves.
Gettysburg returns home on Saturday, when it takes on Muhlenberg College at 1 p.m. in a Centennial Conference affair.
