Quinnipiac Men's Lacrosse Upsets No. 17 Brown, 12-11, In Overtime

Saturday, February 17

Hamden, CT

12:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

1-1

Brown University

0-1

Team	1	2	3	4	OT	Final F
Brown	3	1	3	4	0	11
Quinnipiac	0	4	5	2	1	12

Quinnipiac Men's Lacrosse Upsets No. 17 Brown, 12-11, In Overtime

2/17/2018 2:17:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Connecticut - A back-and-forth battle between Quinnipiac men's lacrosse and nationally-ranked No. 17 Brown ended the Bobcats shocking the Bears, 12-11, in overtime at the Quinnipiac Lacrosse Stadium in Hamden, Conn. The Bobcats, playing in their second-straight overtime game, improved to 1-1 while they hand Brown a season-opening loss as the Bears premier at 0-1 on the young season.

Mike Fletcher (Syracuse, New York) played the hero for the Bobcats, potting the game-winner less than two minutes into overtime to cap-off a four-goal afternoon while also adding an assist. Bobcats freshman stand-out Jake Tomsik (Medway, Massachusetts) and junior Matt Frost (Spring Lake, New Jersey) added two goals apiece. Foster Cuomo (Oakville, Ontario) had two assists to give him a team-high four for the year.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 12 | No. 17 Brown 11 (OT)

LOCATION
Quinnipiac Lacrosse Stadium (Hamden, Conn.)

RECORDS
Quinnipiac 1-1 | No. 17 Brown 0-1

GAME NOTES

Quinnipiac's overtime win is its first since Apr. 2, 2016 when it defeated Marist, 8-7, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. It was also the first overtime win on its home turf since May 8, 2010.
It was also Quinnipiac's first win in it's newly-dedicated Quinnipiac Lacrosse Stadium.
Brown scored the game's first four goals to jump out to a 4-0 lead through the first three minutes of the second period. The Bobcats answered, scoring five-straight games and set the game at tied, 4-4, heading into halftime. Quinnipiac's first lead of the game came with 13:42 left in the third period.
Brian Feldman (Canandaigua, New York) scored his 98^th career goal with 3:17 left in the third period to cap a dominant run for the Bobcats, 9-2, and gave Quinnipiac a 9-6 lead.
Brown then piled on four-straight goals of its own to steal a 10-9 lead with 11-minutes to play before Frsot tied the game on a pass from Ryan Corcoran (Stratford, Connecticut).
After Brown re-took the lead with 5:40 to go in regulation, Sam Witt's (Boxborough, Massachusetts) second goal in as many games tied it up and sent the game to overtime.
Mike Fletcher's four-goal explosion was his first multiple-goal game of his career and doubled his goal output from last season. He now has five goals and two assists for the season.
Tomsik, who earned Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week honors last week after a four-goal outing against UMass Lowell, scoring twice again against the Bears and currently leads Quinnipiac with six goals through their first two games.
Quinnipiac's win against Brown was just its second in 10 meetings all-time and ended the Bears four-game winning streak in the series. Quinnipiac's last win against Brown came in the Bobcats' 2013 season-opener, 9-7, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Quinnipiac gained momentum on the strength of 31 groundballs, to Brown's 18, and also won 19-of-27 face-offs in the game.
In goal, Quinnipiac's Carson Cocco (Westchester, Pennsylvania) stopped 10-of-21 shots-on-goal for the win.

QUINNIPIAC STAT LEADERS
GOALS: Mike Fletcher 4, Jake Tomsik 2, Matt Frost, 2
ASSISTS: Foster Cuomo 2, Ryan Corcoran 1, Mike Fletcher 1
SAVES: Carson Cocco 10
GROUND BALLS: Will Vitelli 7, Adam Bellamy 5
FACEOFFS: Will Vitelli 19-27

BROWN STAT LEADERS
GOALS: Carson Song 3, Michael Panepinto 2, Jake Kniffin 2, Brian Prigmore 2
ASSISTS: Michael Panepinto 2
SAVES: Phil Goss 11
GROUND BALLS: Jake Miller 4, Ted Ottens 4
FACEOFFS: Ted Ottens 4-15, Jason Simaan 3-4

NEXT GAME
Quinnipiac returns to action on Saturday, Feb. 24 when it hosts Vermont at the Quinnipiac Lacrosse Stadium at 12 p.m.