With just 12 seconds remaining in overtime, graduate student Zac Schuette spun and went five-hole to net the game-winning goal to lift Siena Men's Lacrosse to an exciting 10-9 MAAC road victory over Canisius on a cold and snowy Wednesday at Demske Sports Complex in Buffalo. 

In what has been a series marred by close competition between the schools, the Saints snapped a three-game skid against the Golden Griffins.  

In the prior seven of the last nine match ups, the games had been decided by one goal while the other two were decided by two and three goals. 

Wednesday stayed on course with that narrative as there were five ties.  Siena held a 6-5 edge at halftime and fell back 7-6 with 8:51 left to play in the third quarter.

Schuette scored one of his three goals on the day to knot it back up at the 5:35 mark and then Liam Hassett gave Siena a temporary lead at 8-7 with 3:31 on the clock.  

Canisius' Keegan Kozack drew it even again on an assist from Nathan Conry early in the fourth period. Schuette scored on a feed from Ryan McCarthy to make it 9-8 before Kevin Carney locked it at nine apiece to force overtime.

Siena (4-4, 2-2 MAAC) earned its first road win of the season and were backed by Saints' fifth-year goalkeeper Christopher Yanchoris (4-4), who had a season-best 20 saves.

It was the most saves in a single game by Yanchoris since last April 2 when he had 21 saves in a 10-1 win over Monmouth. 

The Sykesville, MD native surpassed Tom Morr (made 418 saves from 2008-2012) to move into seventh all-time in program history with 424 saves. In sight for Yanchoris to pass next would be Alex Berberian (1998-2001), who had 497 career saves. 

The Saints received two goals from George Rusnak and five other players scored as well including Pratt Reynolds, McCarthy, Jack Cavaioli, Christian Watts and Rocco Santillo.

Christian Watts increased his consecutive point streak to 12 games dating back to last season, with his team-leading 20th goal at the 9:00 mark of the second quarter.

The Saints held a 49-42 edge in shots, but had four fewer shots on goal (29-25).  Siena had five fewer turnovers than Canisius (24-19) as the Golden Griffins also held the edge in ground balls (41-34). 

Canisius dropped to 2-8 overall and 1-3 in the MAAC.

Up next, Siena returns home to host Wagner (2-7, 1-3 MAAC) on Saturday at 3 p.m.