SALEM, Va. -- Virginia Wesleyan College's men's lacrosse team scored eight of the last 12 goals of Saturday's Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) game at Roanoke College and posted a thrilling 17-15 victory over the host Maroons.

Junior Josh Currier (Peterborough, Ontario/Holy Cross/The Hill Academy) scored a career-high seven goals to lead the victory, scoring three in a turnaround third quarter of a game that included seven ties and six lead changes.

Roanoke (6-5, 3-2), ranked among the nation's top 20 teams most of the season, moved out to a two-goal lead twice in the early minutes of the third quarter, but could not extend it.  Momentum began to change for good when rookie John Bennett (Gilbertsville, Pa./Boyertown) fired in an unassisted goal with 8:21 on the clock to cut the Maroons' lead to 12-11.  Currier kept things going with back-to-back goals to push VWC in front at 13-12, but Roanoke tied it at 13-all on a goal by Will Pilat with 3:47 remaining in the quarter.

Virginia Wesleyan (7-3, 4-0) moved in front 15-13 as Mike Moran (Woolwich, N.J./Kingsway Regional) and Joe Papetti (Edgewater, Md./South River) scored solo goals in the final three minutes of the quarter.  The Marlins pushed their lead to 16-13 when Currier scored just 1:33 into the fourth quarter.

VWC's lead remained at 16-13 until the final five minutes of the game when Conn Curry scored for Roanoke with just 4:49 on the clock.  Moran got the goal back for the Marlins when he scored at 3:31.

Moran finished with three goals for the Marlins, Papetti added two and John Roth (Merrick, N.Y./Calhoun), Joe Couture (Rutland, Vt./Rutland),  Levi Williams-Whitney (Red Deer, Alberta, Canada/Hunting Hills) and Matt Baldwin (Edgewater, Md./Southern) tallied one each.  Cory Hilliard (Butler, Pa./Butler) led the Marlins' assist total with two.

Senior Rory Finnegan (Lowell, Mass./Lowell) owned a leading role in the victory as he helped keep Roanoke's scoring in check by recording a season-high 18 saves, marking his fifth double-digit saves production of the season.

Virginia Wesleyan returns to competition on Saturday, April 11, when the Marlins travel to Lynchburg to take on the nationally-ranked Hornets at 7 p.m.

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