Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (May 9, 2010)-Freshman Andrew Scalley scored at the buzzer to lift Mount St. Mary's to a 7-6 win over Siena in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship game on Sunday. Scalley got the ball behind the cage with four seconds left, drove to his right and buried his third goal of the game to send the Mountaineers to their first MAAC title and NCAA berth since 2003.

The Mount will learn its opponent in the first round of the NCAA Tournament tonight when the NCAA Selection Show airs on ESPNU at 8:30 p.m.

Scalley finished with three goals to earn Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament honors for the Mount. Goalkeeper T.C. DiBartolo, defenseman Matt Nealis and Scalley all earned spots on the All-Tournament team.

DiBartolo made 13 saves in the championship game after posting 20 saves in the Mount's 10-6 win over Manhattan in the MAAC semifinals on Friday. Nealis held Siena's top scorer, Ryan Duggan, to one goal after limiting Manhattan's top scorer James Synowiecz to no goals on Friday.

With the victory, the Mount sets a school record with 12 wins this season, besting the old mark of 11 set in both 1999 and 2001.

The Mount was outshot, 35-26, in the game while Siena had a 22-21 edge in ground balls. The Mount won 10-of-15 face-offs in the contest.

The Mount held a 6-4 lead into heading into the final quarter before Siena rallied to even the score. In the fourth, Jordan Loftus had a great chance to cut the Mount lead to one when he was found wide open right in front of the cage, but his shot was stymied by DiBartolo with just over eight minutes left in the game.

Siena cut the lead back to one, 6-5, when Loftus scored when he came around the cage and beat DiBartolo with 3:42 left in the game.

The Saints tied the game with 1:42 left when John Rogener drove to the cage and buried the shot to make the score, 6-6. Siena got the ball back, but the Mount forced a turnover to regain possession with 30 seconds left, setting up Scalley's heroics.

A trio of unlikely goal scorers helped to lift the Mount to an early lead. Brendan Harrison, Mike Adkins and Drew Dunn all scored first-quarter goals to give the Mountaineers a 3-1 lead after one period of play.

The Mount got on the scoreboard first when Cody Lehrer scooped up a loose ball after a Siena turnover near midfield and fed a wide-open Harrison streaking to the cage. Harrison beat Siena goalkeeper Brent Herbst to the right with a bounce shot for his second goal of the year 3:20 into the game. Adkins made it 2-0 when he beat a defender to the cage for his sixth goal of the season six minutes into the game.

Siena finally beat DiBartolo when Chris Roth buried a shot from 15 yards out to cut the Mount lead to 2-1, but Dunn's second goal of the year with just 16 seconds left made it 3-1. DiBartolo made four key stops in the opening quarter for the Mount, including a pair of saves from point-blank range.

Scalley opened the scoring in the second quarter when he came out from behind the cage to bury a shot to push the margin to 4-1. Siena's Kyle Curry answered with a shot from 15 yards out with 7:04 left in the half. The Mount dodged a bullet late in the half when Siena's Jordan Loftus had a shot ring off the post right before the buzzer. The Mount held a 4-2 lead at the break.

The Mount held a 15-14 edge in shots in the first half while the ground balls were even at 10-10 and each team won four face-offs.

In the third quarter, backup goalkeeper A.J. Schaufler was pressed into duty when DiBartolo received a penalty at the half. Schaufler made two saves in a row, but Siena's Bryan Neufeld kicked a rebound into the cage to cut the Mount lead to 4-3.

Scalley's second goal of the game helped stop Siena's momentum when he scored after coming from behind the cage to make it 5-3. Siena's leading scorer Duggan with 10:02 left in the third made it a one-goal game for the third time on the afternoon. Bryant Schmidt restored the Mount's two-goal lead when he scored off a loose ball scramble to make it 6-4.

Game Notes: The Mount is now 3-3 all-time in MAAC Championship games...The Mount won the MAAC Tournament title in 2001 and 2003.