​“I think we just we all just looked around at each other and We knew we’ve been working for this​,” Coleman said. ​”We’ve been hustling, we’ve been grinding, and there’s some people here who were out of the pool today due to some medical and other things, unfortunatel​y. We wanted to do for them because we know that they would have given anything to be in that pool.”

Down by two with six minutes left, the Knights came charging back. Coleman fired a point-blank goal, then netted another goal minutes later on a feed from sophomore Lincoln Bott to tie 7-7. Coleman landed the winner, assisted by freshman Andres Profit with 31 seconds to go. Senior Connor Burks batted away a shot with his left hand and the Knights are headed to the title game.

​”The whole team just worked together and ​made a lot of selfless plays, a lot of great passes​,” Coleman said. ​”Just the intensity turn​ed up so much on defense, on swimming, on everything, and I think in the end, we just we were just so connected and we all just wanted it so much. And I think that that’s how we got it done.”

Burks made five steals and had seven saves. Afar finished wirh three assists while Profit added two. Avery Kuziemko had three steals.

Down 6-4 in the third quarter, Bott fired his last of three goals on the night before Coleman’s flurry of goals, Coming out of the half,sophomore Adam Afar added a tying goal on a feed from Profit.