CUMBERLAND — Working in overtime, Patric Murphy took care of business for Kennebunk. The senior attackman, shut out from the scoring column during regulation, scooped up a groundball to the right of the goal, then flipped a no-look, over-the-shoulder shot past Greely goalie Dylan Sinclair, sending the Rams past the Rangers 9-8 in a Western Maine Class B boys lacrosse quarterfinal at Glenn A. Hutchins Field Wednesday.

“I caught the ball and just thought ”˜shoot it’ because it was overtime,” said Murphy, who laughingly answered “not very often” when asked if he practices the kind of shot that lifted Kennebunk to its comeback win.

The fifth-seeded Rams lost both regular-season matchups with the No. 4 Rangers, and it looked like Greely might make it three of a kind early on.

Tim Adams put the Rangers on the board just 1:16 into the game, but Jake Boothby tied it for Kennebunk one minute later.

Greely then rang off four straight goals to end the quarter, as the Rangers went up 5-1.

The scoring slowed down in the second quarter, with a goal by Kennebunk’s Donovan Connor the only score of the period.

The Rams defense was able to stymie the Greely attack after struggling to do so during the first quarter.

“They have a first-team all-conference attackman down there, they got two really good midfielders, another really good attackman,” said Kennebunk head coach Dan Seavey. “Our poles played great today. I think we got some of the best poles in our conference. They’re young, but they’re playing really well. We just played as a unit on defense.”

Kennebunk came out of the halftime break looking like a new team, as the Rams cut the deficit to just 5-4 on goals by Connor and Boothby one minute apart before the midway point of the third quarter.

Greely was able to pull away again, however, as Gabe Belisle and Adams scored around a Ranger timeout to make it 7-4.

Pat Gassman scored a man-up goal with 24 seconds left in the quarter to cut the margin to two heading into the fourth quarter.

Gassman was dominant on the draw in the second half, losing just one attempt. His presence was a big boon for the Rams, as he was out of the game for much of the first quarter ”“ when Greely did most of its damage ”“ while dealing with an injury.

“I think he’s the best faceoff guy in the state,” Seavey said of Gassman.

The early part of the fourth quarter featured big saves by both Sinclair and Kennebunk goalie James Ross, as well as a shot off the post by Murphy with the Rams a man up less than three minutes in.

Bo Beveridge cut the deficit to 7-6 with a goal midway through the quarter, but Dillon Trelegan restored the two-goal advantage three minutes later.

The Rams won the ensuing draw, however, and Gassman fed Boothby 13 seconds later to put the Rams back within a goal with 2:30 remaining.

Connor scored 31 seconds after that to tie the game for the first time since it was 1-1.

Ross and Sinclair traded off big saves the rest of regulation, with Sinclair deflecting a Connor shot with eight seconds left to send the game to overtime.

Gassman won the opening draw and the Rams went to work. They weren’t able to get a shot off and a loose ball looked headed toward a Greely stick when Murphy came flying in from the right side, setting the stage for his heroics 38 seconds into the extra session.

“He’s really good at that stuff, he’s just got to know he can do it. He’s crafty, he’s a really good player,” Seavey said of Murphy. “He was in the right place at the right time. He wanted the goal, he wanted the win for us, and he did an awesome job.”

The win exorcised some demons for the Rams, who lost 13-9 in Cumberland midway through the year before ending the regular season with a 13-8 loss to the Rangers at home. More importantly, it advanced them to Saturday’s semifinals against top-seeded Cape Elizabeth, which beat Kennebunk in the only regular-season matchup between the two teams.

“Our conference is very, very good. Every game we play is a dogfight,” said Seavey. “The kids just believed in themselves today, and we showed up and got the job done.”

— Sports Staff Writer Wil Kramlich can be contacted at 282-1535, ext. 323 or sports@journaltribune.com. Follow him on Twitter @WilTalkSports.