The Syracuse Orange beat the best team in the Nation on Saturday, taking down the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 11-10. Per expectations, it was a close one with Syracuse playing its best half of lacrosse of the year in the first half. Really, though, the only time it felt like UND was in control was in the end of the third period. Other than that this was Syracuse’s game.
The game winning goal came at 8:42 in the fourth quarter off of the crosse of Nick Mariano. It was nearly exactly the same goal as he had to tie the game versus Duke with 1:25 to go in that game.