DENVER — Colorado State scored the final six goals of the game to beat Cal Poly 8-5 in overtime at Invesco Field at Mile High to win the US Lacrosse Women’s Division Intercollegiate Associates National Championship.

The victory ended Cal Poly’s seven-year run as the US Lacrosse Women’s Division Intercollegiate Associates champion. Cal Poly had gone a perfect 28-0 in the national tournament before today’s loss.

After CSU scored first, Cal Poly seemed to have control of the game. The Mustangs scored three goals in the final six and a half minutes of the first half to take a 3-1 halftime lead. Sarina Madnick scored just 1:40 into the second half to make it 4-1 and after a Erin O’Brien goal for CSU, Cal Pol went back up by three at 5-2 on a goal by Ashley Hennen with 17:22 left in regulation.

“This team has come back several times this year in those kinds of situations,” said CSU head coach Bob Vlahakis. “We felt pretty good about stopping them and we knew that we could score.”

CSU All-American goalie Brooke Lewis took care of things on the defensive end, blanking the Mustangs for the final 23 minutes of the game. Lewis finished with nine saves.

The offense got going with Andee Barocas, Katie Nepil and Kristen Kasney scoring consecutive goals for CSU, with Kasney’s second of the game tying the score 5-5 with 4:27 left to play.

Lindsay Brown, the USL WDIA national player of the year, scored with 1:10 left in the first overtime period to give CSU the lead, and the Rams put it away on goals by Barocas and Kasney in the second overtime period.

“For four years, ever since I’ve gotten here we’ve talked about this,” said Brown, a Colorado native. “It’s just a dream come true, it’s surreal.”

Beating Cal Poly, which had upset top-ranked and unbeaten UCSB in the semifinals on Friday, had extra meaning for CSU.

“Taking out the national champions for seven years running,” said Lewis, “That was the best feeling you could have had.”