Amherst junior forward James Mooney scored his third goal of the game with 7:48 play in regulation time, lifting the Lord Jeffs to a 3-2 victory over St. Lawrence University in an NCAA Division III second round tournament game at St. Lawrence's Sandy MacAllaster Field Sunday afternoon.

Amherst, 13-2-3, will move on in the tournament to play Bowdoin in the third round while St. Lawrence finishes its season with a 17-3-2 record.

"We got into their game a little bit, which opened up our defense," said Saint coach Bob Durocher. "We lost our shape a couple of times and they were able to capitalize.

"It's a tough way to end the year, but I am happy after last year's season," Durocher added. "We brought in some new guys and our older guys were fantastic in terms of leadership. Everyone kept their calm and poise throughout the season, even when we hit a rough stretch in week two. "

The Saints had a 17-game win streak snapped with the loss to Amherst, the team which also knocked the Saints out of the 2008 NCAA tournament.

The Saints led 1-0 at the half after senior captain James Stewart scored his second goal of the tournament off a restart when sophomore midfielder Sam DeMello hit a perfect ball into the 18 yard box and Stewart put it away for his third goal of the year 13:02 into the game. The play started when Sean Scott was taken down on a run up the sidelines following a Saint throw in. DeMello curled a pass into the goal mouth where Stewart scored on a near carbon copy of the first goal in Saturday's 2-0 win over SUNYIT in the first round of the tournament.

Goalie Nate Goss-Woliner kept the Saints in front with a great one-on-one save, diving to smother a shot by Julien Aoyama with 28:07 to play in the first half, and Amherst goalie Lennard Kovacs stopped a point blank shot by Saint forward Adrian Bucksam with just over a minute to play in the first half.

Mooney brought Amherst even at the 61:02 mark as he gathered in a long through pass from Ayoama and broke in alone on Goss-Woliner, putting the ball in off the post. The goal came following a Saint restart at the other end of the field as Ayoama cleared the ball ahead to Mooney after it caromed off the heel of a Saint attacker. That goal started a wild stretch in which the two teams scored three goals in a span of 2:06.

Mooney scored his second of the game and seventh of the season when he redirected a cross by Aoyama past Goss-Woliner at 62:30, but the Saints came right back to tie it at 2-2 when senior Emmanuel Mbong took DeMello's pass across the box and one-timed his third goal of the season into the corner of the net at 63:08.

The Saints nearly took the lead when Stewart's shot on a redirect off direct kick went just over the crossbar with 13:50 to go.

Mooney then scored his third of the day and the eventual game winner as he volleyed the ball out of the air following a corner kick which was headed away by a Saint defender, but went right to Mooney in the middle of the box at 82:12.

The Saints had several late chances to tie but Kovacs came up with a couple of big saves among his seven in the game and the Amherst defense blocked or deflected several shots in the box in the waning moments of the game.

Goss-Woliner had three saves for the Saints which had a 21-9 edge in shots and a 7-2 edge in corner kicks.