The Mavericks Lacrosse team, fresh off the plane with their Texas pride, scarlet shorts, and cowboy boots, came through in a grand finale shooting display in overtime to defeat The Big Red of Exeter at the Disney Wild World of Sports in Orlando, Florida.

St. John's struck first on a goals by Zach Gaitz and Reed Daniel to take a 2-0 lead.  Exeter answered back to make it 2-2 at the quarter.  Patrick Wilkey and Kyle Sparks found the net for the Mavericks in the second period, but Exeter went up 6-4 at the break, even with Henry Waller's 4 saves.

18 seconds into the third period William Young scored off a Zach Gaitz assist and then returned the favor to Gaitz.  Exeter scored two more, and William Jewett finished the third period scoring with a feed from Gaitz.  Krishnan Rajagopalan had one save for St. John's.

Trailing 8-7 at the beginning of the fourth period, The Mavericks were hanging their hat on Freshman goalie, Nate Whittle, for the final 12 minutes.  All the Mavs needed was one score and a shutout by Whittle.  Whittle and the Maveirck defense, led by John Ytterberg, Jeff Wu and Ryan Cordill did their part. Would the offense answer?

St. John's had numerous shooting chances to tie it up, but time was winding down under the last minute of regulation.  With 56 seconds on the clock, St. John's got a turn over and almost scored on a shot by Daniel.  William Young got the inbounds ball and found Patrick Wilkey for the tying score with 18 seconds remaining.  Gaitz's last second shot almost ended it in regulation but the battle of the reds would be decided by sudden victory overtime. 

Daniel won the OT face off and set up a scoring chance that missed the mark.  Jett Williams picked a a precious gb in transition, drew a penalty, and the Mavs converted with Young assisting Daniel for the game winner.  Final: Scarlet 9  Big Red 8