M. lax hammers Yale with late heroics
Jason Harris
Issue date: 4/7/08 Section: Sports
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But Kyle Hollingsworth '09 one-upped Caldwell on Friday, scoring the game-winner over the Bulldogs with just 11 seconds to play, unknotting an 8-8 tie and giving No. 16 Brown its sixth straight victory. The win, in front of a mostly pro-Brown crowd in New Haven, makes the Bears 7-2 overall and 2-0 in the Ivy League. Yale fell to 2-6, 0-4 in Ivy League play.
Yale took a 3-1 lead less than two minutes into the second period against the Brown defense, which has been the team's strength all season. Goalie Jordan Burke '09, who has been "stellar" all season, according to Head Coach Lars Tiffany '90, and who leads the Ivy League with a save percentage of 70.9, was not at his sharpest early on, though he bounced back late in the game when his team needed him.
The Brown offense picked up the slack in the second period, however, scoring four straight goals to put Bruno in the lead. Three came from attackman Thomas Muldoon '10, the team's leading scorer, who had a total of four scores on the day. Two of Muldoon's goals and one from midfielder Brady Williams '09 in the run were in man-up situations.
"The second quarter is when we turned it on," he said. "It started because we got a couple man-ups and we capitalized on them just like in the Delaware game. Man-up was moving the ball really well." Brown converted three of its four man-up opportunities, but Yale was unable to score in its four extra-man chances.
Tiffany said the offensive outburst was crucial given the slow start.
"Down 3-1 on the road against a good Yale team ... it was a huge momentum boost to see the offense explode in the second quarter."
The Bears ripped 17 shots on Yale goalie George Carafides in the second period, half of their total for the game.
The team did not change strategy, they just "started playing tougher, getting to tough ground balls," according to Hollingsworth.