Dartmouth Men's Lacrosse Outlasts Brown, 9-8

Saturday, March 24

Hanover, N.H.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Brown

3/24/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Lacrosse

By: Dartmouth

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Dartmouth Men's Lacrosse Outlasts Brown, 9-8

Boxscore

HANOVER, N.H. - In the longest game in Dartmouth men's lacrosse history, the Big Green outlasted No. 18 Brown, 9-8, in four overtimes Saturday as sophomore Brian Koch (Rye, N.Y.) scored the gamewinner.

The game was tied, 8-8, through regulation, and neither team blinked during three four-minute overtime sessions. With 2:51 gone in the fourth, Koch took a feed from senior Nick Bonacci (Crofton, Md.), pushing Dartmouth to its third straight win.

"Nick Bonacci had a great dodge when he fed me," said Koch. "It was all Nick Bonacci really. I just caught it and shot it. So give the credit to Bonacci."

The game seesawed back and forth. Brown (4-2 overall, 0-1 Ivy) took a two-goal lead, 3-1, at the beginning of the second period on a Will Davis marker. Dartmouth (3-3 overall, 1-0 Ivy) scored five of the next six, including Koch's first of the game, for a 6-4 advantage at halftime.

Freshman Ari Sussman (New Haven, Conn.) netted his second of three on the afternoon for a 7-4 Dartmouth lead midway through the third.

But the Bears put together a run of their own. After Sussman's third gave Dartmouth an 8-5 advantage with 2:19 left in third, Brown scored three fourth-quarter goals to force the overtime.

For Brown, David Madeira's third of the afternoon tied the game at 8-8 with 3:59 left in regulation.

"Both teams played hard, both teams left everything they had on the field," said Dartmouth coach Bill Wilson. "It seemed like whoever hammered that last shot obviously is going to win the game. They had their opportunities, we had our opportunities. Their goalie played great. He's the best goalie we've seen all year and that's saying an awful lot.

"He saved them a couple of times in overtime, just like our goalie Mike Novosel came up big in overtime and made some saves," added Wilson.

Brown netminder Jordan Burke had 21 saves in 74:51. For Dartmouth, freshman Michael Novosel (Somers, N.Y.) made eight stops as each team was credited with 41 shots.

Also scoring for the Big Green were Bonacci, senior Wilson Handler (Weston, Conn.), sophomore Jonathan Livadas (Wilmington, Del.) and sophomore Kyle Lagratta (Reisterstown, Md.), each with one goal. Bonacci had three assists on the afternoon.

The Big Green's five-game homestand concludes Tuesday when Providence comes to Scully-Fahey Field for a 3 p.m. start.