Around the National Lacrosse League for the games of Week Three, 22-23 January 2010. (Summaries are based on best-available information and may be amended as necessary.)

Colorado Mammoth at Minnesota Swarm
Friday, 8:35 PM - Xcel Energy Ceneter
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Tom Ethington scored his only goal of the game 3:42 into overtime, giving the Mammoth a 15-14 victory over the Swarm.

Minnesota (1-2) held a 4-3 lead after a back-and-forth first quarter in which Aaron Wilson scored twice for the Swarm and Jamie Shewchuk had a goal and an assist for the Mammoth.

Colorado (1-2) hung tight in the second quarter, scoring five goals (two by Cliff Smith) to stay within a goal, 9-8, at intermission.

The Mammoth inched out in front early in the third quarter when Chad Culp and Brian Langtry scored, then did it again on a late Shewchuk tally.

Sean Pollock's goal with two seconds left in the third quarter tied the game at 11-11, then the teams swapped goals throughout the fourth quarter, setting up overtime.

Callum Crawford had three goals and five assists for Minnesota, leading all scorers. Culp paced the Mammoth, scoring a goal and tacking on six assists.

The game was Steve Govett's debut as the Mammoth head coach.

Buffalo Bandits at Washington Stealth
Friday, 11:00 PM - Comcast Arena
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Cam Sedgwick scored four goals, leading the Stealth to a 13-11 victory over the Bandits.

Playing its third home game in as many outings, Washington (3-0) stumbled early, allowing a first-minute goal to Ian Llord, but recovered to take a 4-2 lead after one quarter on goals by Luke Wiles, Rhys Duch, Peter Morgan and Sedgwick.

Mark Steenhuis potted two goals in the second period for Buffalo (0-3), which scored four times in the period to cut the Stealth's lead to 7-6 at halftime.

Steenhuis scored early in the third, tying the game, but the Stealth countered with four straight goals and carried an 11-8 lead into the final quarter of play.

Stealth goaltender Tyler Richards kept Buffalo at bay in the fourth quarter, stopping 11 of 14 shots to preserve the victory.

Steenhuis (5 goals, 1 assist) and Washington's Jeff Zywicki (1 goal, 5 assists) tied for the game high in points, six.

Colorado Mammoth at Philadelphia Wings
Saturday, 7:00 PM - Wachovia Center
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Alex Gajic scored 2:19 into overtime, his third goal of the game, giving the Mammoth a 12-11 victory over the Wings.

Jed Prossner opened the scoring for Colorado (2-2), a scant 1:20 in, but the period took on a decidedly defensive tone as Thomas Hajek tied the game at the three-minute mark and Alex Gajic potted a goal at mid-quarter to regain the Mammoth's lead.

Philadelphia (1-2) kept pursuit in the second quarter, falling behind 5-3 six minutes into the period before rallying to tie the game on goals by Mat Giles and Bill McGlone. A Jamie Shewchuk goal put the Mammoth back in front three minutes before intermission, 6-5.

Dan Teat scored early in the third quarter, tying the game at 5-5. Ilija Gajic regained the Colorado lead just past the five-minute mark, but Drew Westervelt countered for Philly a mere nine seconds later. Goals by Chad Culp and Ilija Gajic allowed the Tusks to again hold a one-goal advantage at the end of a period, 9-8.

Giles, Westervelt and McGlone strung together goals for the Wings in the fourth quarter, establishing an 11-9 lead, but Colorado roared back with a goal from Cliff Smith at 12:00 and a shorthanded tally by Shewchuk 54 seconds later. Bad turned to worse early in overtime when McGlone was whistled for goalie interference; the game-winning goal came 15 seconds before the penalty was to expire.

The loss wasted a fine outing by Giles, whose six points (3 goals, 3 assists) led all scorers. Shewchuk finished with five points (2 goals, 3 assists) for Colorado.

Rochester Knighthawks at Toronto Rock
Saturday, 7:00 PM - Air Canada Centre
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Garrett Billings scored five goals and Bob Watson posted a pair of shutout quarters as the Rock crushed the Knighthawks, 17-3.

Toronto (3-0) wasted little time in starting the rout, as Cam Woods scored a minute and a half into the game, followed by Jeff Gilbert, Garrett Billings and Mike Hobbins before the game was ten minutes old. Billings then netted two more goals, completing a 6-0 first-quarter whitewash.

Scott Evans scored 28 seconds into the second quarter to break up the shutout. That was it for Rochester (2-1) in the half, though, as Billings scored again, followed by Kasey Beirnes and Mike Hominuck. 9-1 at the break.

Toronto kept pouring it on the third, enjoying every minute of thrashing its rival from across Lake Ontario. Colin Doyle got on the board, as did Pat McCready and Blaine Manning -- and that Billings kid again. Shawn Evans had the only Knighthawk goal in the period.

The scene got even bloodier in the fourth, as the Rock continued pounding in shots, scoring on four of them. At the other end, Watson turned aside all eight shots he faced, posting his second clean-sheet period of the game.

Billings led all scorers with eight points, on five goals and three assists, while Shawn Evans (1 goal, 1 assist) and Shawn Williams (2 assists) topped the Knighthawks with two points each.

Orlando Titans at Boston Blazers
Saturday, 7:30 PM - TD Garden
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Nick Cotter scored four goals, leading the Blazers to their first win of the season, 13-9 over the Titans.

Cotter made an early impact on the scoreboard, netting two first-quarter goals as the Blazers jumped out to a 5-4 lead. The key to the period, though, was Daryl Veltman, who scored the game's first goal and assisted on the other four Boston (1-3) tallies.

Orlando (1-1) snagged a 6-5 lead early in the second quarter, on goals by Mat MacLeod and Mike McLellan, but the Blazers shot back with four straight goals and went to intermission with a 9-6 lead.

The Titans had a chance to erase their three-goal deficit and nearly did it, scoring the only two goals of the second quarter. Dan Dawson prevented a tie game by scoring 2:43 into the fourth quarter, for a 10-8 lead, but after another Orlando goal (Casey Powell), the Blazers' defense held firm the rest of the game.

Veltman and Dawson led all scorers in points, six, on identical lines of one goal and five assists. Jordan Hall (1 goal, 4 assists) had five points for the Titans.

Buffalo Bandits at Edmonton Rush
Saturday, 9:00 PM - Rexall Place
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Ryan Ward's eight-point night allowed the Rush to zip past the still-winless Bandits, 11-7.

Ward and Dean Hill each scored in the opening five minutes, putting Edmonton (2-1) up 2-0, but Buffalo (0-4) quickly tied the game on goals by Sean Greenhalgh and Billy Dee Smith.

Another Ward goal gave Edmonton the lead after one quarter, then Jim Quinlan extended the Rush's lead to 4-2 with just over four minutes to play in the first half. A late exchange of goals by Buffalo's Mike Accursi and Rush defenseman Brodie Merrill made it a 5-3 game at intermission.

Edmonton broke the game open in the third quarter, outscoring the Bandits 3-1 on two goals by Andy Secore, sandwiching a single tally by Ward. Brett Bucktooth netted a pair of fourth-quarter goals for Buffalo, the second of which came with just 2:06 to play and the Bandits still down by five.

Ward finished with four goals and four assists on the night, trailed closely in points by Secore (3 goals, 3 assists) and Merrill (1 goal, 4 assists). Bucktooth (2 goals, 1 assist) was among three Bandits to finish with three points.

Washington Stealth at Calgary Roughnecks
Saturday, 9:30 PM - Saddledome
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For the Roughnecks, not even an eight-goal second quarter Saturday night was enough to hold off the Stealth, which rallied for a 16-15 victory.

Washington (4-0) grabbed an early 2-0 lead (Jeff Zywicki and Cam Sedgwick), then stretched it to 5-1 by the end of the first quarter, led by a pair of goals from Lewis Ratcliff.

Despite surrendering another four goals in the second quarter, including a third straight tally by Ratcliff, Calgary (1-2) wiped out the entire four-goal deficit. Craig Conn led the outburst, scoring three times; Dan Dobbie added a pair, whle Scott Ranger, Josh Sanderson and Tracey Kelusky also found rope.

Ratcliff snapped the 9-9 halftime tie, scoring three minutes into the third quarter. Sedgwick made it 11-9 a short time later, but the Riggers pumped out four of the next five goals and took a 13-12 lead.

Dobbie then made it 14-12, scoring on a feed from Ranger just 22 seconds into the fourth. Zywicki and Segwick brought the game all square in the third minute, then Luke Wiles restored Edmonton's lead at mid-quarter and Ratcliff added an insurance tally with 2:22 to play.

A final-minute Dobbie goal closed the gap to one, but the Roughnecks could not come up with the game-tying goal.

Ratcliff finished as the game's leading scorer, netting six goals and dishing out three assists for a total of nine points. Conn and Sanderson had seven points each for Calgary, posting identical lines of four goals and three assists.