The No. 18 men’s lacrosse team enters the weekend with an overall record of 9-3 and a NESCAC record of 6-2. The team will play at Wesleyan tomorrow at 1 p.m.
On Tuesday, the squad was upset by Colby 11-7 in the final home game of the regular season, leaving it third in the conference standings.
The game was tied at 4-4 at the start of the second half. In the third quarter, Franklin Reis ’14 scored once to answer two Colby goals. Colby’s John Grimaldi scored again to put the Mules up 7-5 entering the fourth quarter. Grimaldi had seven goals total in the game.
Colby took a decisive lead early in the fourth, scoring four goals within 2:28. Though Will Wise ’14 and Peter Reuter ’16 netted two late goals, they were not enough to spark a comeback for the Bears.
“[Colby] was a humbling game, and hopefully will show us that if we don’t show up, any team in the NESCAC can beat us,” said Wise. “I know the Colby loss will light a fire in our guys to prepare as hard as we can [for the rest of the season].”
Other scorers for the Bears included David Nemirov ’15 with two goals and Tyler Williams ’15 and Connor O’Toole ’14 with one each.
Colby goalie, Tyler Will, had 19 saves, seven of which were in the fourth quarter. Bowdoin goalie Connor Laughlin ’15 totaled 10 saves in the net.
“We just didn’t make the necessary adjustments [to win the game],” said Head Coach Jason Archbell.
Though the Colby loss broke the team’s four-game winning streak, Bowdoin beat Connecticut College 10-9 this past Saturday.
The Polar Bears battled back from a seven-goal deficit after trailing 8-1 in the third quarter. Nemirov had the game-tying goal at 6:51, with an assist by Reis. Williams scored the game winner with 6:09 left in the game.
“We got in a hole early but were able to come back by executing and playing with a lot of energy,” said Williams.
Wise had three goals and three assists. Other scorers on the day were Reuter, Brett Kujala ’17 and Dan Hanley ’14.
Laughlin had 13 saves. He held Colby to only one goal in the game’s final 41 minutes.
“We came out flat and got down pretty significantly,” said Archbell. “I was really happy to see us dig ourselves out of this hold and scrap for a win.”
On Monday, Williams was named the NESCAC Men’s Lacrosse Player of the Week. He netted game-winning goals in two conference wins last week, scoring both the game-tying and game-winning goals against Bates, as well as the game winner against Colby. He has ten goals this season.
“Tyler is a really good player who plays really hard,” said Archbell. “He is big, fast, strong and agile, which makes it difficult for other teams to match up against him.”
Bowdoin’s final three games this season are against top-ranked opponents, including No. 15 Endicott, No. 9 Tufts and tomorrow’s road matchup with the No. 19 Wesleyan Cardinals.
Wesleyan (9-4, 6-1 NESCAC) currently sits atop the conference standings. The Polar Bears will look to slow down the Cardinals’ Matt Prezioso, who is sixth in the NESCAC with 27 goals and eigth with 36 points. They’ll also have to find a way around goalkeeper Mark Simmons, the only goalie to be named NESCAC Player of the Week this season. Simmons is second in the conference in the categories of goals against (68) and goals-against average (7.44).