SYLVANIA — Perrysburg boys lacrosse came back from a three-goal third quarter deficit and turned on the gas, defeating Northern Lakes League foe Southview, 13-9, Thursday.

Southview junior Dylan Johnson scored with 5:04 remaining in the third to put the Cougars up 6-3, but Perrysburg senior attack Cameron Davidson and sophomore midfielder Zachary Schroeder went on a scoring rampage the final 17 minutes.

First, the Yellow Jackets scored four goals unanswered to take the lead in the fourth and outscored the Cougars 7-3 in the final stanza.

After just scoring one goal apiece in the first half, Davidson scored seven second half goals and Schroeder had three second half goals. The duo often work in tandem, feeding off each other.

“I just love Zach. We have great chemistry,” Davidson said. “He is one of my brothers — we just always find each other on the field, and then once he and I connect then everyone is connecting from there on. We just needed something to turn up the rest of the team.”

Davidson said the scoring outburst came from an adjustment after halftime.

“We’re all very goal hungry — everyone on the offense, and we all played very tight, and we needed to play more spread out,” Davidson said.

“Coaches are telling us that and we just didn’t notice it at first. Then we finally started adjusting to it, and clearly it worked,” Davidson continued.

“Yeah, we just need to slow down the game, pay attention to what we are doing and make sure we are catching all of our passes, get all our ground balls, take the right shots, chase the ground balls, and all of that.”

Perrysburg coach Baily Weatherwax said everyone on the team played a role, too — it wasn’t just Davidson and Schroeder.

“We started playing as a team, honestly,” Weatherwax said. “Our guys started putting some things together and started exploiting some matchups, and our big guy, No. 9 (Schroeder), started to make his presence known.

“It’s not just that two-man effort, either. You’ve got every other man on the field that is opening that space up and allowing them to get downhill on their looks. They started putting it together as a team effort and it started showing on the scoreboard.”

Southview coach Tony Hunter acknowledged that once Davidson and Schroeder started scoring, the momentum was too much to overcome.

“It comes down to effort,” Hunter said. “I think we lost pace and when you lose pace it changes momentum.”

Davidson finished with eight goals and one assist, Schroeder had four goals and an assist, sophomore attack Jack Hammond scored one goal, senior attack Evan Wolaver had four assists, and senior defenseman Ethan Johnson and junior midfielder Trey Haney had one assist apiece for the Yellow Jackets.

The Yellow Jackets, now 5-3 overall and 3-1 in the Northern Lakes League, needed this win badly after a 10-9 loss to Anthony Wayne on Tuesday. Southview, 2-3 and 2-2, had already defeated AW, 11-7, earlier this season.

It seems as if anyone can beat anyone on any given night in this year’s NLL.

“Right now, it’s all even,” Hunter said. “Everybody is pushing hard, nothing is set, and we’re going to have to keep after it and work hard.”

Weatherwax added, “I think its wide open. I think the cool part about it is I think every team in the NLL is competing. Whatever dog wants to come out is probably going to take it.”

For Southview, junior Owen Miller had three goals and two assists, Johnson had three goals and an assist, senior Seth Baden scored twice, and sophomore Khaled Beseiso had a goal and an assist.

Southview outshot Perrysburg, 31-24, but the Cougars had just a 19-17 advantage in shots on goal. Perrysburg sophomore goalie Nate Ettore had 10 saves as Southview junior Sean Connelly had four saves.

Baden was a force to reckon with on face-offs, taking 15-of-26 for the Cougars, and Southview sophomore long stick midfielder Alex Berrie cleaned up on ground balls with nine in the second half alone, including one that led to a quick score in transition.

Perrysburg junior midfielder Topher Mora and Johnson also had ground ball steals that led to quick scores, and on Haney’s assist, it was his 50-yard pass from the defensive zone that led to one of Davidson’s goals.

In the loss to AW Tuesday, Davidson had 11 goals and one assist, Hammond scored twice, and Wolaver had an assist. Johnson had 11 ground balls and junior midfielder Caden Yarnell and Davidson had four ground balls each.

Against AW, sophomore midfielder Zachary Schroeder was 8-for-11 in faceoffs, junior midfielder Alexander Birch was 6-for-10, even though the pair was slightly on the losing end against Baden. Ettore had seven saves in the loss to AW.