Pictured Above: Senior Ciaran Wolohan (Picture Credit: Stew Milne)

Watch Ciaran Wolohan's Game-Winning Goal 

Staten Island, NY – Senior captain Ciaran Wolohan (Manly, Austrailia / St. Aloysius College) scored eight seconds into sudden death overtime to lift the Wagner men's water polo team to a thrilling 15-14 come-from-behind victory over Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference (MAWPC) rival Fordham at the Spiro Sports Center on Wednesday night. 

The Seahawks, who scored the final three goals of the game in pulling out the win, improve to 11-15 on the season, 4-4 in MAWPC play while the Rams fall to 14-8 overall and 4-2 in conference.

Close and competitive throughout, the match featured seven ties and six lead changes.
 
A goal by Fordham's Ian Watson with 3:56 remaining in regulation put the Rams up by two, 14-12, before Seahawk sophomore Mhetthew Miller (San Ramon, CA / California High) answered a minute later, making it a one-goal game at 14-13. 
 
Sophomore Oscar Nomura (Irvine, CA / Irvine) then forged the game's final tie at 14-14 with just 42 seconds left, sinking a clutch five-meter penalty shot to send the game into overtime.
 
Both squads displayed tight defense in the extra pair of three-minute sessions, putting the game into sudden death. Freshman Jack Leighton (Lake Forest, CA / El Toro) won the all-important swim-off to start the period and fed the ball to Wolohan, who promptly nailed the golden goal game winner.
 
This contest was knotted at 4-4 after one quarter before Fordham nudged ahead by an 8-7 count at halftime. After Leighton evened the score at 8-8, the Rams reeled off three unanswered goals, one each from Massimiliano Mirachi, Phillip Wang, and Jake Miller-Tolt, to build an 11-8 lead.
 
Undaunted, the Seahawks answered with a 3-0 run of their own on scores by Wolohan, freshman Jasmin Kolasinac (Belgrade, Serbia / King's College), and freshman Jordi Alonso (Barcelona, Spain / Jesuites Sarria-Sant Ignasi), the latter of which tied the game at 11-11 with just three seconds left in the third period.
 
Fordham then opened the fourth quarter with a 3-1 run to make it 14-12 before Miller and Nomura found paydirt to force the game into OT.
 
Leighton and Kolasinac were Wagner's leading goal-scorers with three apiece while Miller added two. For Fordham, Mirarchi led the way offensively with a match-high six goals, while Miller-Tolt added three.
 
Wagner, which played the first 25 games of the season away from home, are in the midst of a three-game homestand to end the regular season. The Seahawks are next in action on  Saturday, November at 1:00 p.m. when they host George Washington, before concluding the regular season with a matchup vs. Johns Hopkins on Sunday, November 5 in a 3:30 p.m. start.
 
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