For Immediate Release March 24, 1999
Maroons Upset 13th Ranked Connecticut College
Fleming Scores With 7.7 Seconds Left To Give RC the Win
SALEM, Va.--Brian Fleming (Summit, NY/Summit) scored with just 7.7 seconds left in the game to give the Roanoke College men’s lacrosse team a 12-11 victory over the visiting Camels of Connecticut College today. The Maroons improve to 2-4 on the year, while the Camels, who entered the game ranked 13th in the country, fall to 2-1 on the season. The win helps Roanoke avoid its first ever 1-5 start and gives the team its first win at home in 1999. The Camels fought back from a four-goal third period deficit to tie the score at 11 with 7:09 to play in the final frame. Neither team was able to score until Bobby Vallario (Bridgewater, NJ/Bridgewater) took the ball from behind the net to the side and found a wide open Fleming standing in front of the CC net. Fleming faked a high shot, but then beat the Camel goaltender on the low side with just over seven seconds left in the game. The goal was Fleming first of the contest.
The Maroons went on top 1-0 in the contest when Gregg Fasanaro (Stony Brook, NY/Ward Melville) beat the CC goaltender. It was the first time since the opening game of the year that the Maroons had scored the first goal of the contest. The Camels quickly tied the score at one, just under a minute later, but the Maroons scored the final two goals of the opening frame to take a 3-1 lead into period two.
The Camels came out firing in the second quarter, peppering Roanoke keeper Evan Kaplow (Chappaqua, NY/Chappaqua) with 14 shots and scoring the period’s first four goals to take the 5-3 advantage. Parker Sides scored twice for CC in its run and finished the day with three goals. After Ryan Kamerdin (South Salem, NY/John Jay) brought RC to within 5-4, the Camels struck again, pushing the lead back to two. The Maroons closed out the half with two straight goals to tie the score going into the break.
With five minutes elapsed in the third stanza, Kamerdin scored for the second time in the game to give RC a one-goal cushion. Just seven seconds later, James Canedy (E. Orleans, MA/Falmouth), who had won the draw and pushed the ball down the field, scored his first of the season. The Camels came back with a goal by Tim Boyd, one of four tallies for Boyd in the contest. But after Boyd’s goal, Roanoke exploded for three goals in just 27 seconds. After David Taylor (Butler, MD/St. Paul’s) found the back of the net with 7:38 to go, Canedy won the ensuing draw. The ball went directly to Taylor, who picked it up in RC’s offensive end of the field, made two quick moves, and scored his second goal in 11 seconds. On the next draw, Canedy won it cleanly, raced down the field and beat CC keeper Chris Bailey, just 16 seconds after Taylor’s second. The goal gave RC an 11-7 lead.
From there, the Maroons failed to score for a span of 22:04, a time in which the Camels fought back. The team closed the lead to 11-9 after the third. In the fourth, CC’s Jamie Keough scored his second of the game, with 12:13 remaining, to bring the Camels to within one. At the 7:09 mark, Boyd scored for the fourth time in the game to knot the score at 11, setting up Fleming’s final second heroics.
Ryan Kamerdin finished the game with two goals and an assist, while Taylor scored twice in the contest. Kaplow made 12 sparkling stops in the game between RC’s pipes. Burrows scored twice for the Maroons, while Ron Hagedorn (Northport, NY/Northport) beat the CC goaltender once. Boyd led the Connecticut charge, scoring four times and adding an assist, while Sides lit the lamp three times and helped on another CC tally.
Roanoke returns to action this Saturday, March 27th, as it travels to Lexington, VA to play the Washington & Lee Generals in an Old Dominion Athletic Conference matchup. The Generals will enter the game as the number-three ranked team in the country.