ONTARIO, Calif. – The Rochester Lancers are the third-best team in Major Arena Soccer League 2.

Jeremy Ortiz scored with 39.3 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter to to snap a 7-7 deadlock as the Lancers registered an 8-7 win over the Las Vegas Knights in the third-place match of the league championship at Citizens Bank Arena Saturday.

Rochester dropped an 11-10 overtime decision to Cuervos of Juarez in the semifinals Friday.

After the match, the Lancers received a third-place trophy from M2 head Kevin Milliken, which was the first piece of silverware the team had earned since the incarnation of the club from 1967-80. Rochester won the 1970 North American Soccer League title.

In the second game of the tripleheader, Juarez met the San Diego Sockers 2 for the M2 crown.

More details coming on the third-place match.

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.