Tyler Fiorito made the save and tried to start the fastbreak the other way. Instead, he threw the ball right into the stick of Brown's leading scorer, Andrew Feinberg, who threw it into the essentially open net to make it a one-goal game at the end of the first quarter.

Fiorito didn't break his stick over his head or scream or do anything else. Instead, he simply pointed to his defense as if to say "it's fine."

And then he spent the next 45 minutes showing that everything on this day was fine and that Princeton's All-America goalie is back.

Fiorito made a career-high 17 saves, including 12 in the second half and eight in the fourth quarter, to lead Princeton to a 9-7 win over Brown in front of 6,403 at the New England Lacrosse Classic at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

Princeton used goals by Chris McBride, Paul Barnes and Tyler Moni in a 3:17 span late in the fourth quarter to snap a 6-6 tie and improve to 7-1 overall, 3-0 in the Ivy League. Brown fell to 3-4, 1-1.

Fiorito's performance didn't exactly match that of Dartmouth' Fergus Campbell in the first game of the doubleheader at the home of the NFL's New England Patriots, as the Big Green sophomore goalie made 23 saves in an 8-6 win over Cornell. Still, Fiorito's big day, which featured several tough stops on Brown's best shooters, made Princeton the only remaining team undefeated in the Ivy League.

"I thought our defense played great," Fiorito said. "It was a tough defensive game. It was 3-3 in the second half. Our defense wanted to stay ready, because that team can score at will. Transition. Broken plays. Six on six. Doesn't matter."

Brown came into the game averaging nearly 13 goals per game and got fewer than half that against Fiorito. The sophomore eclipsed his career high of 15, which he set last year against Syracuse and Harvard and equalled last week against Yale.

Fiorito had a save percentage below .500 and a goals-against average of nearly 10 before last week's 7-6 win over Yale. In the last two games, he has a save percentage of .711 and a goals-against of 6.50.

Of course, the game against Yale marked the return of All-America defenseman Chad Wiedmaier, who shut out Yale's leading scorer Matt Gibson and forced a turnover in the final five seconds to preserve that win. This time, Wiedmaier held Brown's Thomas Muldoon, who came in tied with Feinberg for the team lead in points, to just one goal.

"Having Chad back is nice," Fiorito said. "He can take away their best dodger. What did he have, one goal in transition? Chad did great. And the defense communicated well. Our shortsticks played well. Peter Smyth and Tyler Moni were great, and so were Jimmy Davis and Connor Reilly. It was hot out there, and we needed everyone."

The teams combined for nine goals in the first three quarters, which ended 5-4 in favor of the Tigers. Included in those nine was Feinberg's with 15.4 seconds left in the first after Fiorito's giveaway to make it 3-2, and it stayed that way as nobody scored in the second quarter.

Brown would tie it at 3-3 on Feinberg's second, which came 27 seconds after intermission, and Princeton would see its scoreless stretch run to 28:07 before Jack McBride bounced one in. The Tigers then went up by two when Alex Capretta scored just 30 seconds later, but Brown tied it at 5-5 when Rob Schlesinger scored with 1:07 to go in the third and David Hawley scored 1:55 into the fourth.

Jack McBride's second made it 6-5 Princeton with 10:23 to go, a lead that lasted all of 10 seconds. Willie Fix won the face-off and got it to Muldoon, who ripped one home to tie it again. The two goals marked the 10th time in Division I history that opposing teams have scored within five seconds of each other.

The game stayed 6-6 until Princeton got its three to make it 9-6. Reade Seligman scored with 53 seconds left and had a chance with 18 left, but Brown got no closer than two.

Brown outshot Princeton 48-43.

Princeton freshman Chris White scored the first goal of his career.

Princeton plays two-time defending NCAA champion Syracuse in the final game of a tripleheader at the new Meadowlands Stadium next Saturday, April 10. The day starts with Hofstra-Delaware and continues with North Carolina-Virginia and finally the Tigers and the Orange and will be the first event ever held in the new facility.