Catholic held off a late rally from Hampden-Sydney Lacrosse to win 13-12 on Wednesday night.

THE BASICS

• Final Score: Catholic 13, Hampden-Sydney 12
• Records: Hampden-Sydney 2-1; Catholic 2-1
• Location: Washington, D.C. – Cardinal Stadium

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Cardinals took it to the Tigers in the first quarter, scoring the first four goals of the game and six total in the quarter while H-SC managed just one goal
• H-SC flipped the script in the second quarter, outscoring CUA 5-1, including three consecutive Ian Levin tallies to draw H-SC within one, 7-6, going into halftime
• The Cardinals scored the first two goals of the third quarter to go back ahead by three at 9:44, but Hunter Brown and Jack Doetzer found the back of the net at 4:30 and 3:48 to get back within one.
• Victor Licata would provide Catholic with a two-cushion going into the game's final 15 minutes, and Jack Murphy once again made it a three-score game with 12:11 remaining
• Levin found Connor Pool for a goal at 10:07, but Bennett Bradley answered back 50 seconds later
• Just eight seconds after Bradley gave the Cardinals a three-point lead, Jared Arntzen won the face-off and fed it to Levin to cut the deficit to two, 12-10, at 9:09
• Catholic's Dan Ennis drew a one-minute slashing penalty at 7:08 and the Tigers made them pay with a Chandler Shaheen extra-man score at 6:40 to make it a 12-11 Cardinals lead
• Victor Licata helped put a halt to H-SC's momentum by finding the back of the net at 5:14 to go ahead by two
• Brown brought the Tigers within one goal at 2:10 off a Doetzer assist
• Catholic won the ensuing face-off and turned over the ball. The Tigers successfully cleared but gave away the ball with a minute to play, but Catholic turned the ball right back to H-SC after calling a timeout with 41 seconds left.
• The Tigers cleared the ball and called a timeout with 23 seconds to play, and the Tigers got one shot off right before the end of regulation that went wide

TIGER TOP PERFORMERS

• Ian Levin totaled six points on four goals and two assists
• Hunter Brown contributed a hat trick
• Chandler Shaheen scored twice with an assist
• Jack Doetzer handed out two assists with a score
• Connor Pool tallied a goal and an assist
• Jared Arntzen won 18 of 29 face-offs with 11 ground balls

FOR THE FOES

• Bennett Bradley scored five times
• Victor Licata posted four goals and an assist
• Tim Keith contributed three assists with one goal

STATS OF THE GAME

• H-SC held a significant statistical advantage in nearly every facet of the game, but goalkeeper play made the difference in the game as Alex Mulyk made 14 saves compared to just two for H-SC
• H-SC held advantages in ground balls (27-17), turnovers committed (15-8), face-offs won (18-11), shots (44-27), and shots on goal (26-15)

UP NEXT

• Hampden-Sydney hosts Christopher Newport on Saturday for a 1 pm game.