MEN: NDNU Comes From Behind to Beat Wingate, 11-9
March 12th, 2010
Notre Dame de Namur senior middie Conrad Clevlen played like a man possessed Friday afternoon.
Clevlen scored a goal, picked up 14 ground balls and won 16-of-21 face-offs to lead the Argonauts to a come-from-behind, 11-9 victory over Wingate in an NCAA Division II game in North Carolina.
“He was unbelievable,” NDNU head coach Stephen Dini said. “He was just a ground-ball machine. He was out there winning face-offs, running offense, running defense. He really elevated his game today.”
Junior middie Greg Bearson scored a team-high three goals, senior attackman Drew Comeau added three points on two goals and one assist and sophomore attackman Derek Kimbrough and freshman attackman Kevin Nguyen each scored a pair of goals for NDNU (3-3), which snapped a two-game losing streak.
Freshman middie Ryan Jones scored once to round out the offense for the Argos, who are now 1-2 on their four-game, East Coast road trip.
In defeat, attackman Colin O’Donoghue registered a game-high five points on four goals and one assist for Wingate (3-5), which had its five-game winning streak snapped.
In a back-and-forth game, NDNU led 5-2 in the second quarter before Wingate went on a five-goal run to take an 8-5 lead in the third.
Wingate led 9-8 in the fourth before NDNU finished the game with a three-goal run. Nguyen scored his second of the quarter with 8:45 remaining to draw the Argos level, Kimbrough scored the go-ahead goal with 6:17 to play to make it 10-9, and Comeau put the final nail in Wingate’s coffin when he scored with 2:06 remaining.
“It was much needed,” Dini said about the win. “Morale has picked up a lot.”
