The Pilgrim boys lacrosse team has been keeping pace in the crowded Division II race, most recently getting a 15-12 win over Chariho and nearly completing an epic comeback against Prout the previous game.

Brett Taylor led the Pats with four goals on Tuesday against the Chargers while Braxton Bragg and Ryan Barlow each recorded hat tricks. Logan Fuller and Andrew Mullaney also found the back of the cage for Pilgrim.

Prout took an early 8-1 lead at Pilgrim last week and took an 8-2 advantage into halftime. Pilgrim surged in the second half to tie the score and force overtime, but Prout would eventually find the game –winner in the fourth OT period.

Taylor scored a pair of goals in the second half, including the game-tying shot with 2:08 remaining. Richard Cabral also added two goals in the second half while Barlow and Carter Clifton scored. Marcus Walsh scored the team’s two goals in the first half.

Perhaps the play of the game for Pilgrim came in the fourth quarter when Prout would get a break away opportunity with just 14 seconds left. Pilgrim’s first-year goalie Chris Schifino held his ground and came up with the big save while also limiting Prout to just one goal in the final two periods of regulation.

“Just don’t miss and hope my stick gets in his face enough that he throws it right in there and it happened,” said Schifino on the epic fourth-quarter save. “We just stayed on their hands and wore them down, stayed level headed. It shows how much character we have coming back and tying it up.”

“We kind of woke up and realized that it was a bad look for us being blown out of our own place. At halftime, we got together, identified a few problems and stuck it to them like we should have from the beginning,” said Pilgrim coach Alex Gregson, who was proud of his team’s performance in a game in which it was without Bragg. “We’ve got to win as a team, we’re not one guy. We need to understand how good we are as a team. We’re 35 guys that want to win and want to keep this team at the top as long as we can.”

Pilgrim now sits at 3-2 in Division II and is looking to gain some traction with a busy schedule ahead.

The Pats entered the season with a young group, but with core pieces intact, hope to make another playoff run.

“It’s a fresher group than it looks, besides (Barlow, Bragg and John Maguire), we’re all freshmen sophomores and juniors,” Gregson said. “It will take everyone.”