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Aurora 13, Ohio Wesleyan 9

Junior attacker Casey Helms (Sandwich, Mass./Bridgton Academy) scored back-to-back goals that evened the game at 6-6, but Aurora opened the second half with a 6-1 run and went on to defeat Ohio Wesleyan in a first-round matchup of the NCAA Division III tournament on Wednesday at Selby Stadium.

Junior midfielder Spencer Schnell (Dublin/Jerome) scored on the Bishops' first possession of the game, and the goalkeepers took over after that, with sophomore Ryan McMahon (Springfield, Va./The Bullis School) and Aurora netminder Adam Holka each making some spellbinding saves.  McMahon would compile 7 saves during the first period alone, while Hulka stopped 5 Bishop shots.

Aurora's Jack Barry finally solved McMahon for the equalizer with 2:15 left in the quarter, and Zachary Olsen followed with a score during the final seconds of the quarter to give the Spartans a 2-1 lead.

Senior attacker Colin Short (Jamesville, N.Y./Jamesville-DeWitt) opened the second-quarter scoring to tie the game at 2-2, but the Spartans reeled off the next 3 goals, getting tallies from Jordan Williams, Max Obriecht, and Danny Loyall to take a 5-2 lead with 6:17 left in the half.

Sophomore attacker John Umbach (Montclair, N.J.) ended the Aurora run with a goal with exactly 5:00 remaining, and just 30 seconds later, senior midfielder Chris Ostrowski (Pittston, Pa./Wyoming Seminary) notched his first goal of the season to bring the Bishops within 5-4.

Aurora answered with a man-up score by Pat Diorka, but Helms brought the Bishops back, scoring an unassisted tally at the 1:07 mark, then converting a Short pass into the tying goal with :40 remaining.

Williams gave Aurora the lead just 28 seconds into the third quarter, and Justin Bose and Olsen followed with scores to extend the margin to 9-6 with 9:28 remaining in the period.

Senior midfielder Scotty Rosenthal (Boylston, Mass./Worcester Academy) rang up a man-up score to end that Aurora run, but the Spartans collected the final 3 goals of the quarter, with Bose scoring twice and Loyall adding another less than a minute later, to make it a 12-7 game.

Schnell recorded a man-down goal and Short added a score in the closing minutes of regulation time, but that was as close as the Bishops would come.

Short led the Bishops with 2 goals and 3 assists, while Helms also had 2 goals.

McMahon finished with 9 saves in the Ohio Wesleyan crease.

Bose led Aurora with 3 goals and an assist.  Holka ended up with 15 saves.

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