ROCHESTER, N.Y. - RIT attackman Larson Sundown (Basom, NY/Akron) totaled five goals and an assist while Dawson Tait (Ottawa, Ontario/Mother Teresa) compiled a game-high seven points (4 goals, 3 assists) to lead the Tigers past visiting Colorado College, 19-13, in the NCAA Division III Tournament Quarterfinals, Saturday.
 
Tied, 10-10, with 6:01 left in the third quarter, RIT (12-0) finished the quarter with four unanswered goals before pulling away with a 5-1 fourth-quarter run to put the game out of reach.
 
RIT will take on Tufts in the tournament semifinals on Sunday (May 23) at 2:00 p.m. The Jumbos advanced past York (Pa.), 17-7, in the afternoon's other semifinal hosted by RIT.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED 

• Sundown opened the scoring off a nice feed from Ryan Barnable (Whitby, Ontario/Donald A. Wilson) 34 seconds into the contest before Matt Weichers slung a seven-yard shot into the net at 11:13.
• Colorado College midfielder Luca Lietti put the visitors on the board at 9:59 with the first of his three goals, before RIT attackman Quinn Commandant (Rockwood, Ontario/The Kiski School) scored from the left wing to kick off a 3-1 run which yielded a 5-2 lead.
• Lietti found the net with 33 seconds left in the first period before teammates Jack Haims and Noah Beecher scored to tie the game, 5-5, with 11:18 on the second-period clock.
• RIT re-took a two-goal lead with 7:26 left in the second after back-to-back RIT goals by Spencer Bell (Fairport, NY/Fairport) at 8:17 and Tait, but Colorado College re-tied the game with goals by Elliot Nelson at 5:02 and Jacob Smith with 4:15 left in the half.
• RIT called timeout with :04 on the clock during its final possession of the half before Ryan Rosenblum (Limerick, PA/Spring-Ford) beat the horn on a 15-yard shot past a screened goalie with a tenth of a second on the clock for an 8-7 lead.
• Sundown scored his third of the game to give RIT a 10-8 lead with 10:15 on the third-quarter clock, but Colorado College scored twice in less than a two-minute span to knot the game, 10-10, at 6:01.
• Weichers scored a 12-yard shot on a run down the right wing at 5:03 to kick off RIT's decisive run.  
• Commandant got free for an eight-yard strike at 2:23 before Tait scored at 1:24. Tait found Sundown open on the right post for an easy finish with :04 on the clock as the Tigers carried a 14-10 lead into the final period.
• Marley Angus (Oakville, Ontario/Holy Trinity) collected a rebound on the crease and scored seven seconds into the fourth for a five-goal RIT lead.
• Haims halted the 5-0 RIT run with a goal at 9:07, but goals by Weichers and Sundown in a 28-second span put the home-standing Tigers up, 17-11, with 7:03 remaining.
• Tait and Mozrall extended RIT to its largest lead of the game, 19-11, with 3:15 to play.  

GAME NOTES

• Walker Hare (Libertyville, IL/Libertyville) was credited with 12 saves as RIT finished with a 33-25 advantage in shots on goal and 49-40 overall.
• Nick Montemorano (Victor, NY/Victor) won 13-of-19 face-off and picked up a game-high nine ground balls while David Graham (Littleton, CO/Chatfield) finished 10-of-16 with seven ground balls.
• Only one penalty was called – a cross check on RIT's Tyler Sceviour (Calgary, Alberta/Bowness) with 4:15 left in the second.
• RIT advanced to its 11th NCAA Tournament Semifinal in program history and will be in the hunt for its third national championship game appearance. The Tigers defeated Cortland, 10-9 (OT) in the 2013 semis and also advanced past Wesleyan (Conn.), 22-9, in 2017.
• RIT made its 10th quarterfinal appearance in the last 11 seasons (not counting last year), improving to 7-3 in that span.  
• Saturday's game was RIT's first-ever meeting with Colorado College