WILMINGTON MANOR, Del. -- The Lake Erie College Men's Lacrosse team traveled to play the Wilmington University Wildcats for their final regular season game before they start conference play. It was a fantastic game but the Storm fell in overtime, 12-11.

The Storm played one of their better games of the year today, staying neck-in-neck with the Wildcats the entire way. 

Dawson Kindall and Kevin Albright would get things started for the team by giving them an early 2-0 lead. Wilmington would respond back with three straight goals and the Storm would tie it up y the end of the first quarter with a Joey Ellison goal, assisted by Jackman Schooley.

Both teams continued to trade leads and keeping each other within reaching distance.

With under two minutes to play in the game, the Wildcats would have a 11-9 lead. With 1:34 remaining, Kindall would score and bring Lake Erie within one. After Mike Flury won the face-off, the Storm would score again just under 30 second later with Albright finding Landon Taylor with a nice quick catch and shoot goal.

In overtime, both teams would fight hard and in the final minute of play, goalkeeper Noah Beckett would make a nice save but the ricocheted ball would fall right in front of a Wilmington attacker and he would score before Beckett could regain his position, giving the Wildcats a 12-11 victory.

Brendan Luthart and Albright would lead the Storm with three goals each with Albright also contributing two assists. Flury was spectacular on face-offs, going 21-26 and Beckett had 14 saves in goal.

The loss now drops the Lake Erie record to 1-6 with a little over half the season left. They will be back in action on Wednesday, March 22 on the road to face the Walsh Cavaliers at 7:00 PM.