BALTIMORE – Kevin Lindley caught a feed from Aidan Olmstead and scored 29 seconds into overtime to give Loyola University Maryland a 13-12 win over visiting Lehigh University in the teams' regular-season finale on Friday night at Ridley Athletic Complex.
 
Bailey Savio won 17 of 28 faceoffs (60.7 percent) for the Greyhounds against a Mountain Hawks team that entered the game winning better than 64 percent at the 'X,' good for No. 2 in NCAA Division I.
 
Lindley and Olmstead both finished with five points, Lindley claiming all of his on goals, while Olmstead had four goals and the assist on the game-winner. Davis Lindsey added a career-high four assists, while Matt Heuston scored a goal and had two assists for a career-best three points.
 
With the win, coupled with the U.S. Military Academy's win over Boston University on Friday night, Loyola will be the No. 3 seed for the upcoming Patriot League Championships. The Greyhounds will host sixth-seeded Bucknell University on Tuesday, May 3, at 3 p.m. in a quarterfinal game.
 
Loyola (7-7 overall, 6-2 Patriot League) led for the majority of the game and was up 11-8 when Heuston swept to his right and scored on an overhand high-to-low shot 4:29 into the fourth quarter.
 
Lehigh (7-6, 5-3), however, came back with four-straight goals to go up one, 12-11, on an unassisted Scott Cole goal with 3:01 left in regulation.
 
The Mountain Hawks won the ensuing faceoff, but Cam Wyers caused a turnover, and the Greyhounds cleared the ball to call a timeout with 1:24 on the clock. Loyola's first shot went off line, but Lindley came up with the ground ball to retain possession. As Loyola continued to run offense, two flags went down.
 
Lehigh's Michael Gomez was called for two separate illegal body checks with contact to the head on each. He was sent off for a total of three minutes with the penalities being non-releasable.
 
Loyola restarted play with 39 seconds left, and 10 seconds later, Adam Poitras found Olmsted on the right side. Olmstead's shot pinged off the helmet of Lehigh goalkeeper James Spence and into the upper right corner to tie the game at 12-12 with 29 ticks on the clock.
 
Savio then went to the dot against Lehigh's Mike Sisselberger for a man-up faceoff. Savio won the clamp and threw it to Ryan McNulty on the wing. The Greyhounds took it into the offensive zone and called another timeout. With the game times, Loyola restarted and did not run offense, instead choosing to take possession without a faceoff to start overtime.
 
In the extra period, Olmstead had it on the wide right side and got it to Lindley curling around the crease. Lindley caught it on the near-side pipe, scoring 29 ticks into the frame for Loyola's second overtime win in as many games.
 
Lindley's goal was the 191^st of his collegiate career, a total good for a tie for 12^th in NCAA Division I history.
 
Loyola jumped out to a 5-0 lead, holding the Mountain Hawks scoreless for the first 24-plus minutes of the game. Lindley and Olmstead were responsible for all five of those Greyhounds goals with the former tallying three and the latter two.
 
Matt Marker broke through for the Mountain Hawks at 5:57, sparking a 4-0 Lehigh run that would see it get within a goal, 5-4 on Justin Tiernan's second-straight at 2:30.
 
Seth Higgins, however, broke the stretch with a goal off a Lindsey assist at 1:32, sending the teams to the locker room with the Greyhounds up a pair, 6-4.
 
Tiernan and Cole, however, scored for Lehigh in the first 1:25 of the second half, knotting the game at 6-6, but Poitras had an unassisted goal for the Greyhounds at 12:54 to put them back on top.
 
It was a one-goal Loyola advantage for more than eight minutes until Tommy Schelling found the next twice in 32 seconds for the Mountain Hawks to give them their first lead of the game at 8-7.
 
Following the second goal at 4:12, Savio popped the faceoff to himself and got into the box unmarked, scoring his third of the season just five ticks of the clock later to bring Loyola level.
 
Lindley and Olmstead scored with 1:41 and 1:04 to go in the third quarter, and then Heuston's unassisted goal at 10:31 in the fourth put Loyola in front, 11-8, before Lehigh's late charge.
 
Loyola had a 46-32 advantge in shots during the game and a 35-22 lead in ground balls thanks to a game-high eight by Savio.
 
Payton Rezanka grabbed six ground balls and caused three turnovers, while Ryan McNulty, Olmtsead and Sam Shafer each had three ground balls.
 
Olmstead pushed his point total to 221 for his career, a tally good for sixth in Patriot League history.