Winning goal during Sudden Death Overtime by #44 Bobby McBride.
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL-The Chicago Shamrox first sudden death overtime in team history lasted exactly seven seconds. Trailing 14-13 with two minutes left in regulation, Chicago rookie Kevin Ross scored a game-tying goal that forced overtime.

In sudden death, Bobby McBride scooped up the face-off and raced toward the Wings goal and put a fast shot past Philadelphia goaltender Brandon Miller and Chicago earned its third straight win of the season 14-15 over the East Division leading Wings (7-4) in the National Lacrosse League at the Sears Centre in front of 5,427 fans on Saturday night.

McBride described the game winning goal.

“It was off the faceoff and I noticed that (Philadelphia’s) face-off guys had been back real far and guys have been overrunning it,” McBride said. “So I was aware of that and went for it and I was the last one up and the ball was right there. I had the break away and did as many fakes as I could and scored.”

Chicago (4-7) led 12-9 in the fourth quarter before the Wings scored three unanswered goals to tie the game at 12-all. Philadelphia forward AJ Shannon scored the equalizer with ten minutes remaining in the game.

Ross scored to give the Shamrox the lead back 13-12, but just 11 seconds later-after The Wings’ Athan Iannucci’s fourth goal of the game- the game was tied again at 13-all. John Christmas gave Philadelphia its first lead of the game 14-13 with 3:30 left to go in the game. Ross’s second goal of the game tied it at 14-all and forced overtime.

“We came out a little more tighter and a little more focused, and I think that really showed,” Shamrox goaltender Matt Roik said, who recorded 48 saved on 62 shots. “Unfortunately we didn’t keep it for the next three quarters, but that’s what happens in the game of lacrosse, it’s a game of momentum and they came back, fortunately we had the crowd behind us, it was uplifting and we got the “w.”

The Wings drew first blood early in the first quarter when Jamie Rooney found the back of the net in the games first two minutes. Chicago’s Tom Montour responded when he cradled the ball one end of the field to the other and scored to tie the game.

Philadelphia recaptured the lead with a Drew Westervelt goal on a power play. However, Chicago went on an 8-1 run to close out the first quarter.

Similar to Montour, Shamrox defender Scott Self weaved down the entire field and fired a breakaway shot past Miller to start the surge to tie the game at 2-all.

Jason Clark gave Chicago its first lead of the game, 3-2. Working on a four on three advantages, the Shamrox passed the ball around and Clark faked out Miller and found a top shelf hole. During the run, seven different players scored for the Shamrox.

As much as the first quarter was an offensive exhibition, in the second quarter both goaltenders settled in and the offense settled down. Philadelphia closed the game to 9-6 with three unanswered goals in the second quarter. Chicago’s Callum Crawford stopped the run with Chicago’s only goal in the quarter and Chicago led 10-6 at halftime.

The Shamrox' team celebrates the victory on the field.
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The Philadelphia Wings scored the first three goals of the third quarter to cut Chicago’s lead to 10-9. Merrick Thomson led the charge with two of them. Bobby McBride and Mike Hobbins scored back to back goals for the Shamrox to up their lead to 12-9.

The Shamrox return home on Saturday April 26 against the Minnesota Swarm for the final game at the Sears Centre this season at 7:00 p.m.

Notes: Shamrox defender Drew Candy was ejected from the game after 2:41 for fighting misconduct. He appeared to have his leg stuck under Philadelphia’s Geoff Snider, who was on the ground. Candy tried to pry himself out and grabbed Snider’s helmet before throwing a couple of punches. The Shamrox had to play shorthanded for 10 minutes…The game was a matchup of former goaltenders. Earlier this season, Chicago and Philadelphia made a trade that sent Roik to Chicago and Miller to the Wings…in Miller’s first return the Chicago, he made 51 saves on 66 shots.