Box Score
Kenyon 12, Ohio Wesleyan 10

Sophomore attacker Carson Geier (Milford) scored consecutive goals to even the score at 10 midway through the fourth quarter, but Kenyon got the final 2 goals of the game to take a win in a semifinal matchup of the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament on Thursday in Gambier.

The Bishops trailed, 10-8, when Geier rang up an unassisted goal with 5:35 left in regulation time.  Freshman midfielder Noah Citek (Long Beach, Calif./St. John Bosco) won the ensuing face-off, and Geier scored off a feed from freshman attacker Will Siegenthaler (Elmhurst, Ill./York) with 4:59 remaining to even the score at 10.

Kenyon took the lead on a score by Jack Guiffre with 3:55 to play, and after Citek was called for a penalty, the hosts got a man-up goal by David Chintala with 3:31 to go for a 12-10 lead.

Ohio Wesleyan had a few looks in the closing minutes.  Sophomore midfielder Joey Wiseman (Powell/Olentangy Liberty) fired a shot with 1:27 left, but Kenyon keeper Adam Hall made the stop.

The Owls opened the game with a 6-0 run, with Chase MacCartee scoring twice during a 4-0 first quarter and Guiffre adding a pair of goals to open the second period.

Sophomore attacker Spencer Amacher (Blacksburg, Va./Blue Ridge School) answered with a pair of goals less than a minute apart, and when sophomore defenseman Wes Silver (Newton, Mass./North) followed with a goal midway through the quarter, the Bishops had halved the deficit.

Goals by MacCartee and Chintala extended the Kenyon lead to 8-3, but Wiseman found the back of the net with a shot with :09 left in the half to make it 8-4 at the break, and Ohio Wesleyan opened the third quarter with 4 straight goals, getting 2 from Amacher and one each from freshman midfielder Garrett Smith (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) and Geier to pull even at 8 with 5:30 left in the third.

Kenyon opened the fourth period with scores from Rollins Heath and Chintala to take a 10-8 lead, setting up Geier's back-to-back goals.

Amacher led the Bishops with 4 goals, while Geier finished with 3.  Sophomore Nathan George (Gainesville, Va./Battlefield) finished with a season-high 15 saves.

Amacher and George represented Ohio Wesleyan on the all-tournament team.

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