The Forester men's lacrosse team saw its 18-game conference winning streak finally come to an end on Wednesday with a 14-13 overtime loss at Concordia University Wisconsin.

Both teams staged major comebacks in the contest with the Falcons answering Lake Forest's 5-0 run to begin the game with six straight scores of their own and the visitors accounting for five of the last six goals in regulation to force the extra period.

Forester sophomore Macklin Thomas assisted on the first goal of the contest, scored twice in the first quarter, and then completed his ninth career hat trick by tying the game at 12 at the midpoint of the fourth quarter.

Freshman John Shannon also finished with four points on two goals and two assists and he was responsible for tying the score at 13 with just 1:49 remaining in the fourth quarter.

Junior Brendan Herbert had two goals and an assist and classmate Ryan Dousevicz a goal and two assists for the visitors. Additional tallies for Lake Forest came from freshman Jackson Derosia and seniors John Casey, Trip Gaston, Chas Dean, and Connor Tartaglione.

At the other end of the field senior Conor Murphy led the Foresters with five ground balls and his game-high six caused turnovers matched the third-highest single-game total in program history.

Lake Forest senior goalkeeper Andrew Widlar finished with 13 saves, giving him a program record 473 in his career, one more than Ralph Kunzmann (1983-86).

While most statistical categories were nearly even, the home team had a 19-12 advantage in face-offs and converted on three of five man-up opportunities while the Foresters were o-for-2.

The loss dropped Lake Forest's overall record to 6-5 and Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference mark to 5-1. Concordia Wisconsin improved to 4-6 overall and 3-2 in the league.

The Foresters will look to rebound Saturday afternoon at 3:00 at Lawrence University.