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Shamrocks even lacrosse series with win in OT

It聮s a best-of-three series now.The Victoria Shamrocks evened their Western Lacrosse Association best-of-seven semifinal at 2-2 via a thrilling 11-8 overtime victory over the Coquitlam Adanacs Sunday night on the mainland.

It聮s a best-of-three series now.The Victoria Shamrocks evened their Western Lacrosse Association best-of-seven semifinal at 2-2 via a thrilling 11-8 overtime victory over the Coquitlam Adanacs  Sunday night on the mainland.Clawing their way back from an 0-2 series deficit, the Shamrocks have regained home-court advantage and play host to the Adanacs at Bear Mountain Arena in Game 5 Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. Game 6 heads back to Coquitlam on Wednesday.Derek Lowe tied the game for the Shamrocks with 1.9 seconds remaining in the third period and Corey Small, with his fourth and fifth goals of the evening, provided the OT heroics.Victoria played Sunday聮s game without starting netminder Matt Flindell, who was injured late in Friday聮s 9-6 Shamrocks win when Jason Jones purposely ran him. A melee ensued but Flindell left the game due to injury.Chris Levis made Sunday聮s start in goal and made 45 saves, including all seven in overtime.Jones, who escaped further discipline despite the hit on Flindell in Game 3, scored two for the Adanacs, almost adding insult to injury. Dane Dobbie, with a pair, Daryl Veltman, Kevin Olson, Damon Edwards and Ryan Johnson also scored for Coquitlam.Karsen Leung with a pair, Matt Lyons, Ryan Benesch and Mitch McLaren, with an empty-netter in OT, replied for the Shamrocks.Nick Rose made 46 saves in goal for Coquitlam.Victoria聮s Chet Koneczny and Coquitlam聮s Andrew McBride were both suspended for Game 4 due to an altercation following Friday聮s game, but Jones went unscathed.聯It was a bizarre call when our goalie gets run, they get the ball and we, somehow, get the short end of the stick on it. It聮s disappointing,聰 Shamrocks head coach Bob Heyes said of the infraction, which led to three misconducts on both teams.Levis came into Friday聮s game following Flindell聮s injury and gave up two quick goals.聯Levy is a veteran, that聮s why we traded for him last year,聰 Heyes said before Sunday聮s outing. 聯He聮s a professional, in fact he wanted to start the [Friday] game, but I went with Flinner. He came in in a tough position and he still made some saves in that win.聰[email protected]@ tc_vicsports