ALBANY, N.Y. – The College of Saint Rose stood its ground at the most opportune time to come up with today's 11-10 overtime victory against visiting Northeast-10 Conference rival Saint Michael's.
The Purple Knights (1-9/0-5 NE10) overcame a 10-6 deficit by scoring four unanswered goals over of the final 7:22 of regulation to bring about an additional session. They subsequently won the faceoff to commence overtime, but turned it over to allow the Golden Knights a chance that they did not waste.
Saint Rose cleared successfully and called timeout to get its offense set. Fifth-year attack
Jack Pemrick made the effort pay off by scoring his 50th career goal with 1:44 remaining to allow the Golden Knights (7-4/2-2 NE10) to improve to 4-1 at home this spring.
"Our upperclassmen leadership showed in the end. It allowed us to play through some adversity and come out with a key NE10 win against a well-prepared and talented Saint Michael's team," said Head Coach
Alex Williams.
Pemrick and fifth-year attack
Brendan Sheedy each scored three goals, fifth-year midfielder
John Loughlin scored a pair, and junior midfielder
Gabriel Nish contributed two assists to lead the Saint Rose offense. Defensively, sophomore midfielder
Luke Pemrick caused three turnovers while junior goalie
Ryan Fleming recorded 12 saves.
Freshman midfielder Sebastian Simonson recorded four goals and senior midfielder Kyle Hirshom finished with two goals and a pair of assists for the Purple Knights. Sophomore goalie Spencer Scardino came up with 16 stops.
The contest swung both ways throughout the first half, before turning in to a set of runs in the second half.
The opening 20 minutes featured three ties, before Pemrick scored unassisted with 1:28 left in the second to afford the Golden Knights a 5-4 halftime lead. Saint Rose then scored five of the initial seven, second half strikes to take a seemingly commanding 10-6 lead midway through the fourth quarter.
Saint Michael's made one final charge though. Hirshom scored unassisted with 28 seconds remaining and the Purple Knights controlled the ensuing faceoff, which allowed Simonson to find the back of the cage with a mere three ticks left to bring about overtime.
However, the Golden Knights did not break in the end.
Looking ahead, both squads have stern tests ahead of them Saturday with nationally ranked teams on their respective dockets. Saint Rose hosts #15 Saint Anselm at 1:00 pm, while Saint Michael's travels to Long Island to face #4 Adelphi.
Notes: Saint Rose has now won the last five meetings versus Saint Michael's, after losing the first four matchups…Those five victories have been decided by a total of six goals…The Golden Knights are receiving votes in this week's USILA/Dynamic National Poll…They have played the country's 25th toughest schedule to date…Three of the team's four setbacks have come at the hands of nationally ranked teams…Their seven wins are tied for second most in program history…Saint Rose won nine games in 2018 and seven in its inaugural 2012 campaign as well…Junior attack
Eddie Baker was named to the NE10 weekly honor roll on Monday…Pemrick and Loughlin both recorded their 50th career goals this afternoon…They are the seventh and eighth players in the program's 11-year history to reach that mark.
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