BOX SCORE

The St. John Fisher College men's lacrosse team scored five straight goals in the second quarter and goalie Jamie Campagna made two great saves in the final 15 seconds, as the Cardinals held on for a 9-8 win at Nazareth College in the final regular-season game for both teams.

With the win, Fisher improves to 11-4 overall and 6-1 in the Empire 8 Conference, while Nazareth falls to 8-8, 5-2.  The victories secures Fisher the No. 2 seed in the Empire 8 Championship.  The Cardinals will host No. 3 Nazareth at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, while top-seeded Ithaca College will host No. 4 Stevens Institute of Technology on Wednesday as well.   The two winners will play on Saturday at the highest-remaining seed, with the winner of Saturday's title bout earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship.

Nazareth outshot Fisher 14-6 in the opening quarter, but the two teams were tied at 1-1 after one with Fisher's Taylor Muztafago going coast-to-coast for a man-down goal.

Nazareth led 3-2 with 10 minutes left in the second quarter, before Fisher began its decisive rally.

Dante Giordano scored with 7:34 left in the half to tie the game at 3s and 35 seconds later, Brett Farrell put Fisher up for good.   Jeff Wester made it 5-3, as the senior tippy-toed along the crease and found the back of the net with 5:46 left.   Again, 35 seconds later, Farrell scored a man-up goal with Wester assisting to make it four goals in a 2:23 span.  Wester set up teammate Nick Rossi in the closing moments of quarter to put Fisher up 7-3 at the break.

Nazareth scored the first two goals of the second half in the opening three minutes, but Fisher answered right back.  Long-stick David Haseley scored his fifth goal of the game and Gary Bova scored his 21^st goal of the year to make it 9-5 going into the fourth.

Thanks to two man-up goals, the Golden Flyers pulled to within one with just over four minutes left, but couldn't get any closer.  Campagna deflected a shot with his stick over the net with just under 15 seconds left and kicked another shot wide in the final seconds to preserve Fisher's first-ever win at its East-Avenue rival.
Campagna finished the game with 17 saves, while Haseley led the Cardinals with five ground balls and three caused turnovers.

Wester (one goal, three assists) and Farrell (two goals, two assists) both finished with four points.  Drew Brown (one goal) and Greg Ramsden (one assist) both tallied one point.  Paul Cefalu was 10-for-21 on faceoffs.