Harvard played is best game of the season. The final score was 11-4, but it might as well have been 184-1. Dartmouth's two leading scorers were held to one shot.
"We did it when it counted against Dartmouth," Walton says.
The Crimson was as high as a kite. While other students were stressing about exams, the lacrosse team was licking their chops at another opportunity to play Loyola in the playoffs.
And this time the officials would be NCAA sanctioned, as opposed to the bend-for-yourself method used during the regular season.
Loyola, however, also got better. The Greyhounds played a complete game, denying the Crimson the ball on offense and continuously searching for holes in the Harvard defense.
Loyola won, 11-4, and the team that could beat anybody couldn't.
The year was not a total loss, nor was it even a partial loss. The one Dartmouth game proved to be enough to send out the six seniors.
"For me it was a really special year," Walton says. "The six seniors were a close-knit unit, and all good friends. I'll never forget the Dartmouth game--that's part of what lacrosse is all about."