The mystery that has been the NLL East is about to be solved.

The schedule’s last weekend beckons as the five teams continue scrapping for three playoff berths, and don’t try predicting what will happen, because five months of results show that a coin flip would best do the trick.

Inspiring road wins during the weekend by New England (11-6 in Rochester) and Toronto (16-11 in Buffalo) deepened the mystery.

Georgia is 9-7, Rochester and New England are 9-8, and Toronto and Buffalo are 8-9. Who needs to do what is revealed in the scene setter below.

The hero for New England, for the second weekend in a row, was goaltender Aaron Bold. Buffalo outshot New England 65-50 and Bold made 59 saves to enable the Black Wolves to sweep the three-game season series with Rochester.

“If you’re going to have success, you need that,” head coach Glenn Clark said of Bold’s stellar goaltending.

The win gave Bold plenty to celebrate on his 33rd birthday Sunday.

Transition breakouts clicked as checkers Dylan Evans, Adam Bomberry, Brett Manney, Colton Watkinson and John LaFontaine, with two goals, all scored.

“Those are difference makers,” Clark said. “If you can come out on top in the transition battle, that’s big.”

Leading scorer Kevin Crowley didn’t get a goal but, thanks to a couple of short-handed goals, Bold and the back-end brilliance, the Black Wolves emerged victorious in front of 8,143 spectators.

Rochester coach Mike Hasen was impressed with the play of New England’s defensemen.

“They were big, they were strong, and they disrupted what we wanted to do,” Hasen said.

Meanwhile, Toronto was clinging to an 11-9 lead in the third quarter in Buffalo with Latrell Harris in the penalty box serving a major elbowing penalty when Challen Rogers and Rob Hellyer scored shorthanded goals for the Rock, who stayed in control the rest of the way. Tom Schreiber couldn’t get a goal, but Rogers, Hellyer and Adam Jones finished with three each.

Toronto showed it was not ready to be eliminated from contention by outshooting Buffalo 64-46. Rock head coach Matt Sawyer eased the pressure on his players before they took to the floor in front of a crowd of 16,630.

“It was a game we had to have if we wanted to have any hope of moving on and advancing to the playoffs, but the message to the boys was just play,” Sawyer said.

SPECIAL NIGHT

The Bandits’ annual Tucker Out Lymphoma Night to raise funds for cancer fighting organizations honored Tucker Williams, the son of former NLL player Shawn Williams who lost his life at age 8 in 2014 to Burkitt Lymphoma. Hats off to team exec Scott Loffler for continuing this worthy cause.

“What we’re doing now is carrying on Tucker’s legacy and, as hard as it is, we’re going to do it,” said Shawn Williams, who is seventh in all-time NLL points. “It’s overwhelming and breathtaking when you come to the rink and everything is Tucker. Words can’t describe the way our family feels.”

WINLESS AT HOME

Vancouver lost all nine of its home games this season.

Calgary’s 26-11 triumph in the Langley Events Centre on Saturday was the latest win column donut for the last overall Stealth.

“We can only go up from here,” assistant captain Logan Schuss said. “We love the guys in our locker room and are looking to next fall. We have great support here in Langley. It is incredible seeing how many fans stuck around just to chat with us after the game. I saw kids wearing jerseys from every lacrosse organization across British Columbia, and that is exactly who we want to be. We strive to be B.C.’s team.”

Attendance was 3,653 on Fan Appreciation Night. Average attendance was a league-low 3,507.

The last team to go winless at home was the 2010 Colorado Mammoth, who were 0-8 in Denver’s Pepsi Centre.

ROUGHNECKS RECORD

Calgary tied a 2003 franchise record with its 26 goals. Curtis Dickson had four goals and eight assists, Tyler Digby supplied four goals and Holden Cattoni, Wes Berg and Dane Dobbie scored three goals each in showing that the Roughnecks’ offense is ready for the NLL West semifinal the first weekend in May versus the Mammoth.

CAGEY CURRIER

Calgary’s Zach Currier was credited with one caused turnover, giving him 29 on the season. That ties the record in 2017 by Latrell Harris of the Rock for most in a season by a rookie. One more CT in his one remaining game earns the former Princeton Tiger sole possession of the record.

SCORING RACE

Saskatchewan’s Mark Matthews retains the lead with 109 points (31G, 78A) . The University of Denver grad is five assists shy of the league record of 83 shared by Shawn Evans (2015), Josh Sanderson (2015) and Callum Crawford (2016). Matthews is averaging 4.6 assists per game.

Robert Church of the Rush is second with 103 points (46G, 57A), Buffalo’s Dhane Smith is third with 100 (35G, 65 A), Rochester’s Joe Resetarits is fourth with 94 (35G, 59A), and Colorado’s Ryan Benesch is fifth with 88 (34G, 54A).

JOE AND TOM

Rochester’s Joe Resetarits had a goal and an assist Saturday to increase his points total to 94 and tie the record set by Toronto’s Tom Schreiber last season for most points in a season by an American player.

SAVE PERCENTAGES

1. Christian Del Bianco, Calgary, 79.7

2. Dillon Ward, Colorado, 78.4

3. Matt Vinc, Rochester, 78.2

4. Aaron Bold, New England, 78.1

5. Nick Rose, Toronto, 77.8

6. Evan Kirk, Saskatchewan, 77.7

7. Mike Poulin, Georgia, 77.2

8. Alex Buque, Buffalo, 76.8

9. Zach Higgins, Buffalo, 76.6

10. Eric Penney, Vancouver, 74.4

Rose has put in the most minutes, 962:58.

WEEK 21

Every team is in action and Georgia plays twice on the final weekend of the regular season. With an expansion draft to be held this summer to stock new teams in Philadelphia and San Diego, many players will be participating in their last game with their current team.

VANCOUVER (2-15) at GEORGIA (9-7)
Saturday, 7:05 p.m. ET

Georgia will try to nail down first place in the NLL East against the last overall Stealth, who faded from the NLL West playoff picture long ago. The worst-case scenario for the Swarm, which would have them missing the playoffs, is losses in their two weekend games and wins by Buffalo and Colorado.

This will be the second of two meetings. Georgia won 16-12 at Vancouver on Jan. 27. Vancouver lost its one previous game in Georgia 14-6 on April 30, 2016.

Georgia is coming off a bye weekend. Vancouver lost 26-11 at home to Calgary.

ROCHESTER (9-8) at BUFFALO (8-9)
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET

If Georgia defeats Vancouver on Friday, and that is highly likely, a win here lands Rochester in second place. If the Knighthawks lose this one, their season is over.

As for Buffalo, the Bandits will make the playoffs if they win this one and have either Toronto or New England lose.

Rochester lost 11-6 at home to New England on Saturday.

“We have to forget this one, get it out of us, and worry about Buffalo,” Resetarits said.

Buffalo is coming off a 16-11 home loss to Toronto.

This will be the fourth of four meetings. Rochester won 21-11 at home Dec. 23, Buffalo won 16-14 at Rochester on Feb. 3 and Rochester won 17-10 at Buffalo on Feb. 24.

One more goal and Buffalo’s Shawn Evans will have 400 for his career.

TORONTO (8-9) at COLORADO (10-7)
Saturday, 9 p.m. ET

Toronto has to win or is eliminated. If the Rock win, they need Georgia to win in New England on Sunday to get in. 

Colorado won 11-7 at Toronto on March 30. That made it three in a row over the Rock. Toronto’s last win in Denver was 17-9 on March 6, 2015.

The Rock kept their playoff hopes alive with a 16-11 win in Buffalo. Colorado is coming off a weekend bye.

CALGARY (8-9) at SASKATCHEWAN (13-4)
Saturday, 9:30 p.m. ET

With the NLL West standings stagnant since winter, the only question to be answered is this: Can the Rush continue their dominance of their regional rival?

Calgary has not won in Saskatoon since the Rush moved to Saskatchewan for the 2016 season. The Rush, in first place overall, have already defeated the Roughnecks twice this year — 13-12 at Calgary on Jan. 27 and 10-6 at home Feb. 24.

Calgary won 26-11 at Vancouver on Saturday. Saskatchewan had a bye weekend.

GEORGIA (9-7) at NEW ENGLAND (9-8)
Sunday, 5 p.m. ET

New England finishes first in the division if it wins this game. If it loses, and Colorado defeats Toronto, it would finish third and make the playoffs. If it gets beat by Georgia, and if Toronto wins in Colorado, the Black Wolves miss the playoffs.

New England coach Glenn Clark on the NLL East mystery: “Nobody’s in, nobody’s out. Just crazy, man. It’s just unbelievable.”

Georgia is coming off a bye. New England won 11-6 in Rochester on Saturday.

This will be the third and final meeting. New England won 13-11 at home Dec. 8 and lost 17-12 on the road March 24.

TIME TRAVEL

April 28, 1998: Philadelphia defeated Baltimore 17-12 in front of a Baltimore Arena crowd of 3,137 to complete a sweep of a best-of-three championship series. Kevin Finneran scored the winning goal. Goalie Dallas Eliuk, one of three Canadians on the Wings roster, was named MVP.

April 27, 2001: Philadelphia defeated Toronto 9-8 to win its sixth league title in front of a league-record 19,409 spectators in Air Canada Centre. Wings goalie Dallas Eliuk was MVP.