Ensley, a finance sophomore, said the club team had a bus with cable and was driving home from the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association’s Division I National Championships in Greenville, S.C., when the play showed up on SportsCenter.

“I wasn’t expecting it at all,” he said.

As soon as it came on TV, Ensley said the entire bus went crazy and that his Twitter and Facebook accounts blew up.

Despite all the fanfare, Ensley said it wasn’t the first time he attempted the move.

“I tried to score that goal about five times, and this time it went in,” he said.

Political science and pre-law junior Seth Clickner is a defender for MSU lacrosse and said the team was getting more doubtful as the plays got closer to number one.

Clickner, the team president, said that most of the team has the goal recorded in some way.

Head coach Dwayne Hicks said this year was a success, with the team making it farther than any of the four years he has been coach.

The ninth-seeded Spartans beat the University of Colorado in the first round before facing the tournament’s top-ranked team, Cal Poly, in the quarterfinals.

Hicks said the game against Cal Poly was the featured matchup in the quarterfinals, with more than 1,000 people in attendance.

He said that at the end of the first quarter, MSU was down 5-0 but came back to tie the game in the
second half on Ensley’s highlight goal.

MSU would later lose the game 10-9.

Political science and pre-law senior Pat Green is a midfielder for the Spartans and said he thinks the national championship is a definite possibility for next year’s team.

“It’s not about how you do, it’s about how you win,” he said.