Four extra minutes were put on the scoreboard for overtime in the first round of regional playoffs.
But the Wolves only needed two to break the tie with Huron Valley Lakeland and win the game, 6-5.
Jon Avery scored the winning goal with an assist from Adam Zak.
‘It was just exciting because it was more of a team goal. It was all of us playing together at the last minute to win,? said Avery.
‘We wanted to possess the ball, which we did,? said Kaminskas. ‘It took us awhile to get our shooters started and when we did, things worked out just the way we would want them to.?
Clarkston went into the second half of the game behind, 3-0.
‘I don’t know if it helped, but I told them they were a lot better than they were playing, we have all the confidence in the world in them and to go out and play the way they have been playing all year and everything will work out fine,? said Kaminskas.
It seemed to help, as the boys came back strong from the break.
The first goal came from Matt McEntee with an assist from Jon Avery.
Adam Zak worked his way around and into the net to score the second goal.
Lakeland widened their lead in the top of the fourth quarter, 4-2.
But McEntee seized control of the ball when Lakeland was in the Wolves defense zone and threw the ball to Weston Gleiss.
Gleiss swung his stick and the ball fell into the net, scoring the third goal.
When Lakeland scored again to make their last goal of the night, the Wolves had four minutes left in the game to close the two-point gap.
The first of the two goals was made by Warren Swartz with 54 seconds remaining in the game.
The ball was brought into the middle of the field for the face-off. Andrew Miller won the possession and passed the ball off to Avery, who threw it to Chapin White.
White in turn threw the ball into the net to tie the score at five
The Wolves and Titans faced off again and remained in a lock in the middle of the field. Titans got control of the ball but lost it, and the Wolves took a shot. Lakeland made the save and the game went into overtime.
Zak passed the ball to Avery who shot it past the goalie and into the net to win the game for Clarkston two minutes into overtime.
The team will face University of Detroit – Jesuit (10-8) Wednesday, June 4, in their next regional playoff game.
‘It’s going to be a tough game, but we are going to try to do our best,? said Avery.
The game will be at Walled Lake Northern. It begins at 6 p.m.