Junior attackman Patrick Erstad scored the game-winning goal in the final minute of overtime to give Boise a 9-8 victory over Timberline in a Treasure Valley Lacrosse League game Saturday afternoon.
Erstad scored an unassisted goal with 56 seconds to play in the first extra session to give the Braves (13-2) their 11th straight win. Boise finished the regular season unbeaten in 12 games against in-state competition, the first time in program history it has accomplished a perfect regular season.
Boise now enters the TVLL playoffs as the No. 1 seed.
Erstad finished with a game-high six points on four goals and two assists, junior middie Sayre Thomas added four points on three goals and one assist and senior middie Andrew Schlobohm and senior attackman Sam Hardison each scored once for Boise.
In defeat, Nash Cantrell had a team-high five points on four goals and one assist for Timberline, which fell to 12-6. The Wolves had their five-game winning streak snapped.
Timberline led 2-1 at the end of the first quarter, Boise led 5-3 at halftime and the Braves were ahead, 8-4 at the end of the third quarter.
Timberline rallied in the fourth, scoring four unanswered goals to force overtime. Andrew Rusin scored the equalizer with 33 seconds to play in regulation, but Timberline couldn’t carry the momentum over into the extra session.
“It’s huge,” Boise head coach Sean St. Johns said. “We lost 13 seniors from last year, and it’s pretty huge the way we have rallied and gotten the team chemistry back.”