Box Score
Hampden-Sydney 12, Ohio Wesleyan 11
Junior midfielder Joey Wiseman (Powell/Olentangy Liberty) scored to bring Ohio Wesleyan within 12-11 during the final seconds of regulation time, but Hampden-Sydney withstood the Bishop comeback and held on for a non-conference win on Saturday in Hampden-Sydney, Va.
The Tigers led, 10-7, heading into the fourth quarter and extended the lead with goals by Michael Leone and Ford Burke.
Junior defenseman Wes Silver (Newton, Mass./Newton North) started the Bishop comeback with a goal with 6:43 left in regulation time, and less than a minute later, senior midfielder Cooper Braet (Columbus/Upper Arlington) tallied an unassisted goal. Less than a minute after that, junior attacker Spencer Amacher (Blacksburg, Va./Blue Ridge School) rang up a goal courtesy of a feed from freshman midfielder Henry Ross (Snoqualmie, Wash./Mount Si) to make it a 12-10 game with 5:20 to play.
Wiseman scored with :08 remaining to bring the Bishops within 12-11, but Hampden-Sydney won the ensuing face-off and ran out the clock.
Hampden-Sydney led, 4-2, after the first quarter as Ray O'Brien scored twice, but Wiseman opened the second-quarter scoring with a goal, and after Burke answered for the Tigers, freshman attacker Wade Beckstrom (Devon, Pa./Conestoga) and Ross scored goals to even the game at 5.
Leone countered with a pair of goals just over a minute apart to give the hosts a 7-5 advantage heading into the intermission, and O'Brien had 2 more goals as the Tigers scored the first 3 goals of the third quarter to take a 10-5 lead.
Sophomore midfielder Garrett Smith (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) and senior midfielder Henry Little (San Diego, Calif./La Jolla Country Day) brought the Bishops back to within 10-7 with goals just 35 seconds apart to close out the third quarter.
Ross led the Bishops with 2 goals and 2 assists, and Beckstrom and Wiseman finished with 2 goals apiece. Junior Nathan George (Gainesville, Va./Battlefield) made 3 saves during the fourth quarter while the Bishops were rallying and finished with 11 saves in 58-plus minutes. Sophomore Will White (Pelham, N.Y./Memorial) finished up in the Ohio Wesleyan goal.
Box Score