Look out for the Georgia Swarm.

The Swarm won their second straight game, 16-12 on the road over Vancouver on Saturday, and at 3-3 are beginning to resemble the team that won the National Lacrosse League championship last spring.

With the score tied at 9 entering the fourth quarter, Georgia pulled away by scoring five consecutive goals. Transition breakouts had a lot to do with that. John Ranagan, the 6-foot-3 defenseman out of Yorktown, N.Y., broke free for two late goals.

“When we move the ball, good things happen,” coach Ed Comeau said. “We really pushed the ball in transition. There were lots of good things out of the back end.”

The Swarm needed those good things because the offense has sputtered. It is hard to believe given all the firepower in the lineup, but the Georgia power play has a league-worst success rate of 28.6 percent.

At even strength, the offense has been producing 12.67 goals a game, which is down from nearly 15 per game last season. Georgia’s only top-10 scorer is Shayne Jackson, whose nine-point night Saturday upped his season total to 35, including 15 goals.

A disjointed schedule hasn’t helped. Georgia has yet another bye this weekend. With one-third of their season complete, the Swarm are at .500. The time to peak is the spring and Comeau’s crew aims to be ready to roll.

BROWN GETS SILVER JACKET

Georgia rookie Frank Brown scored his first NLL goal to open fourth-quarter scoring, giving the Swarm a 10-9 lead and fueling a run of six straight goals. Brown got open at the front of the crease to fire in a low shot as he fell to the green carpet on his chest.

Brown, 24, from Salamanca, N.Y., looked resplendent in the flashy silver jacket players award a chosen teammate after a win.

First career @NLL goal

“Player of the Game” Jacket

Looking good, @Browniee_83 pic.twitter.com/avZ1gKyiMI

— Georgia Swarm (@GeorgiaSwarmLAX) January 28, 2018

Brown, a 6-foot-3 Hobart grad, was the 24th player selected in the 2017 entry draft. Georgia got that 24th slot via a 2013 trade with Buffalo, when the Swarm were based in Minnesota. Ryan Benesch and Andrew Watt went to the Bandits for first-round draft picks in 2015 and 2016 and a third-rounder in 2017 used to select Brown. Georgia got Randy Staats with the 2015 first-rounder and the 2016 first-rounder was traded to New England as part of the 2016 deal to get Jordan Hall.

RUSH FIRST OVERALL

Saskatchewan just can’t seem to maintain a big lead.

As in previous games, the Rush scored early and often in Calgary on Saturday. They twice led by six goals. They were up 10-4. Yet, they needed an overtime goal from Ben McIntosh to squeeze out a 13-12 win and improve to 5-1 atop the NLL West.

Four busloads of Rush fans jumped for joy when McIntosh ended it with a shot past Christian Del Bianco.

“We played much better than last weekend, but we did come unglued a little bit,” coach Derek Keenan said. “We got a lot of chances, but their young goalie stood on his head. But we got a big play from Bennie to win it.”

It was Saskatchewan’s ninth win in the last 10 regular-season games versus Calgary.

FRANCHISE RECORD

With his 685th career point, Dane Dobbie passed Jeff Shattler and became Calgary’s all-time scoring leader. The two shared a hug after Shattler, who signed with Saskatchewan as a free agent last summer, helped the Rush win. The two were Roughnecks teammates from 2008-2017 and stay in touch.

“It’s more of a phone-call-during-the-week kind of thing,” Dobbie said. “We talk during the week, but when it’s on, it’s on. That’s the way it’s always been. We’ve played against each other in summers and stuff like that. We’re not friends on the floor, but during the week we are.”

SCHREIBER’S BIG NIGHT

Tom Schreiber amassed a career-best 12 points, including five goals, in Toronto’s 21-9 home win over New England on Saturday as the Rock moved even with the Black Wolves at 4-2 atop the NLL East. Since head-to-head results break standings ties, Toronto is in first place.

Toronto has scored 82 goals in winning four in a row. New England had held opponents to 26 goals in winning three in a row before this wipeout.

Rock players dominate the league scoring race. Adam Jones, with nine points (including five goals) Saturday, leads with 45 points (19g, 26a), and Schreiber is second with 43 (18g. 25a). Saskatchewan’s Mark Matthews is third with 40 (13g, 27a) and Toronto’s Rob Hellyer is fourth with 38 (13g, 25a).

RARELY MISSES

Sheldon Burns is primarily a checker for the Rock, but when he gets a scoring chance ,he rarely misses.

The 26-year-old defenseman from Whitby, Ontario, took his fifth shot on goal since being acquired from New England and scored his fifth goal in Rock colors. The streak of perfection ended when he failed to score on his next shot.

“It was bound to come to an end eventually,” Burns said. “Every game before this one, I only had one shot on goal and in this game, I had a few more.”

Burns empathized with his former teammates who were dejected by the lopsided 21-9 score.

“We’re riding on a high right now,” he said of his new team. “We’re really hungry. I had some nerves. That was a team I played with for three seasons. I’ve got nothing but respect for those guys. But we came out flying and it showed on the scoreboard.”

Burns and Buffalo’s Nick Weiss have each scored more goals, six, than any other defensemen so far this season.

NOBLE EFFORT

Jeremy Noble is becoming the impact attacker Colorado envisioned when the Mammoth acquired him nearly three years ago.

With Vancouver up by a goal and time running out Friday in Denver, Noble tied the score with 1:24 remaining and fired in the winning goal with 31 seconds left to lift the Mammoth to a 14-13 victory that improved their record to 4-1.

Rochester selected Noble second overall in the 2014 entry draft. He was living in Denver and did not want to play for a team in the East, so he declined to report to the Knighthawks. A deal was worked out in March 2015 and it has panned out well for both clubs. Going to Colorado with Noble was a third-round 2017 pick that was used to select Ryan Lee, who is an impressive Mammoth rookie this winter. Rochester got two first-round picks, and they yielded Kyle Jackson and Austin Shanks.

TOO MANY PENALTIES

It was easy to figure out why Colorado beat Vancouver: The Mammoth were 5-for-8 and the Stealth were 1-for-2 on power plays. The Stealth effort was admirable, but taking 18 minutes in penalties to eight for the hosts set them up for defeat.

Vancouver lost again Saturday, 16-12 at home against Georgia, and is last overall at 1-6.

COSTLY FIRST NLL GOAL

With Joel McCready suspended and with Logan Schuss unable to travel to Denver due to weekday work commitments, the Stealth dressed Casey Jackson for his first NLL game, and Jackson wiggled around checker Tim Edwards and dove into the crease to slip a ball behind goalie Eric Penney to tie the score 12-12 at the 10:14 mark of the fourth quarter. He was lying on his chest in the crease with Edwards on his back when he got credit for his first NLL goal. He was placed on injured reserve the next day.

Jackson, 26, was a free-agent pickup last August when he was playing summer ball for the Victoria Shamrocks in his home city. He played field lacrosse at RIT.

ANOTHER FIRST

Saskatchewan rookie Nick Finlay also scored his first NLL goal. He got it during the Rush win in Calgary. The 21-year-old defenseman from Ottawa played Junio A box in Peterborough, where he also played field lacrosse at Trent University. He was the 16th pick in the 2017 entry draft.

WEEK 9 PREVIEW

Four games are scheduled. Saskatchewan plays twice.

SASKATCHEWAN (5-1) at COLORADO (4-1)
Friday 9:30 p.m. ET

The winner will sit first overall.

This will be the second of three meetings. Saskatchewan won 17-12 in Denver on Jan. 13, so a Rush win would give them the season series and the tiebreaker should the teams complete the regular season with identical records. The third meeting will take place April 7 in Saskatoon.

Last weekend, Saskatchewan won 13-12 in overtime in Calgary, while Colorado won 14-13 at home against Vancouver.

The Rush are scoring an average of 16.5 goals per game, only slightly back of Toronto’s league-best average of 16.67, while Colorado’s average output is 13.2. On the back end, Colorado has a league-best 11.2 goals-against average and Saskatchewan comes in at 11.5.

Saskatchewan has a league-best 67.9-percent success rate on power plays.

Colorado goalie Dillon Ward has a slightly better save percentage, 78.6, than Saskatchewan’s Evan Kirk, 77.3.

The Rush are 4-0 on the road.

CALGARY (1-5) at TORONTO (4-2)
Saturday 7 p.m. ET

This will be the first of two meetings. They’ll go at it again March 24 in Calgary. Last season, the Rock beat the Roughnecks 11-7 in Calgary and 16-10 in Toronto. Calgary won both of its 2016 games against the Rock.

Statistically, Toronto has the upper hand at both ends of the floor. The Rock are averaging a league-best 16.67 goals for per game, while Calgary is scoring at a league-worst 10-per-game clip. On defense, Toronto is allowing an average of 11.33 goals per game, while Calgary is allowing 13.5.

Last Saturday, Calgary lost 13-12 in overtime at home against Saskatchewan, while Toronto bombed New England 21-9.

Christian Del Bianco deserves a start after his heroics off the bench in the OT loss to the Rush. He has a 74.0 save percentage. Toronto’s Nick Rose has a 78.8 save percentage that is among the best in the league.

BUFFALO (3-3) at ROCHESTER (2-4)
Saturday 7:30 p.m. ET

Both teams were off last weekend.

Rochester is determined to end a four-game losing streak and a win here would lift it even with Buffalo in the NLL East. A Bandits win would bury the Knighthawks in the basement.

In one previous meeting this season, Rochester raced to a 21-11 victory over the visiting Bandits two days before Christmas. After this one, they’ll square off in Buffalo on Feb. 24 and on the schedule’s closing weekend April 28.

Rochester’s Matt Vinc has the No. 1 save percentage, 80.0. Alex Buque’s 75.0 for Buffalo isn’t close.

VANCOUVER (1-6) at SASKATCHEWAN (5-1)
Saturday 8:30 p.m. ET

This will be the first of four meetings. They’ll go at it again next Saturday in Langley, B.C. They met three times last season, when Saskatchewan sandwiched two home wins around a 13-9 road loss.

Vancouver is coming off a 16-12 home loss to Georgia. Saskatchewan will have played the previous night in Denver. Despite sitting last overall, Stealth players are optimistic two close losses last weekend suggest better days are ahead.

“We are half a game out of a playoff spot right now,” captain Matt Beers said. “That is the light at the end of the tunnel.”

BYE: GEORGIA (3-3), NEW ENGLAND (4-2)

TIME TRAVEL

Feb. 6, 1993: Paul Gait became the first player to score 100 career goals when he got six for the Philadelphia Wings in a 13-8 victory over the New York Saints in front of a home Spectrum crowd of 16,731.

Feb. 5, 2006: Toronto Rock captain Jim “Scoop” Veltman collected his 2,000th loose ball in a 14-10 win over the Calgary Roughnecks. Veltman was the first player in league history to reach the milestone. (Veltman retired after the 2008 season with 2,417 loose balls, which remains the league record.)

Feb. 1, 2014: Toronto Rock forward Josh Sanderson surpassed Gary Gait (1,165 career points) for fourth on the all-time scoring list. (Sanderson retired after the 2016 season with 1,357 points and he remains fourth.)