TACOMA, Wash. – A goal in the final minute, gave Argo lacrosse a 10-9 win against Pacific Lutheran University, giving UGF its third win of the season and keeping the Argos in playoff contention in the Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League.
 
For the second time in two games, and the fourth time this season, one of the Argo's games have been decided by one goal. UGF is 2-2 in those games.
 
"Every game that we play now is a one goal game now," UGF head coach Fred Boekel said. "It looks like we're playing at the level our competition right now. I think we're in the habit now that we aren't playing our own game."
 
Despite UGF not always playing its own game, the Argos still managed to pull out a win against PLU. That was fully decided, however, until a last minute, man-up goal from junior McKinley Ridenour.
 
In order to get there, the team had to overcome a 5-4 deficit at the half and a 9-8 deficit in the fourth quarter of a constantly back and forth game.
 
"Anytime someone scored, the goals just kept coming in pairs," Boekel said.
 
Helping keep the Argos in the scoring arms race was junior attack Joshua Smith (28) who scored half of the team's goals including three straight in the second half. Those goals now give Smith 38 on the season.
 
UGF's other five goals came from five different individuals, including junior defender Colton Thompson (4) who scored a coast-to-coast goal with the long pole to bring UGF within one heading into halftime.
 
The others to score were middie Joey Moser (3), middie Albert Williams (5), attacker Jordan Daugherty (9) who tied the game at nine, and Ridenour with the game winner.
 
"We are doing better at catching and throwing but once again we kind of had a slow first quarter," Boekel said. "We do a lot of things better at times, but its just that consistency that we need to get."
 
That consistency will be need in the Argo's next two games which come over the next two days. If UGF can win both of those games, they will finish the season in a three way tie for second place in the PNCLL, with the top three teams in the league making the MCLA playoffs.
 
The first of those games will be against the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., on Sunday, April 24 at 3 p.m.