WINCHESTER, Va. – The Shenandoah University men's lacrosse team picked up another dominating win in ODAC play with a 23-4 victory over the Marlins from Virginia Wesleyan. The Hornets (8-5, 4-2) were all smiles as not only 13 different Hornets found the back fo the cage, three Hornets hit career milestones in points.
Matt Daniel with his two goals and two assists reached 100 career points as well as
Stephen Graham with his lone assist.
Logan Clingerman scored six times in the game as he now has 200 career points and counting.
Luke Petrie had a well-balanced game with two goals to go along with two assists, while
Dylan Pencek picked up a hat trick and two assists.
Jet Hayes scored twice for his second and third goals of the season while
Jordan Rogers picked up the first goal of his career that eluded him last week at Randolph. Once again the Hornets dominated all facets of the game starting with faceoffs. Shenandoah went 24-31 with
Austin Galler going 14-16,
Jason Forchetti went 7-9 and
Ryan Therkorn was 3-6.
Mark Isabelle started in net and made 10 saves while allowing only two goals.
Jack Dwyer went in the middle of the third and made two saves while allowing a goal and
Ryan Feldman played the final 5:44 of the game and surrendered a goal.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
- Austin Galler won the opening faceoff for the Hornets and Sam Poster took the first shot for the Hornets, but the Marlin keeper made the save to keep it a scoreless game.
- In a slow-starting game, the Hornets and Marlins each suffered turnovers, but Josh Boonshaft emerged to fire a shot on the cage that was saved.
- The Marlins took advantage of a failed clear and made the Hornets pay by beating Isabelle to take a 1-0 lead with 10:35 left in the first.
- Galler came up with another faceoff win and Clingerman fired another shot but was turned away as the Marlins continued to lead.
- The Hornets started to really apply pressure as Clingerman, Clark Harrity, Matt Daniel, Bryan Berryhill all took shots. Mark Isabelle was up to the challenge as he made two saves while facing three shots.
- Off an Isabelle save, Josh Boonshaft got the Hornets on the board with 3:50 remaining in the first to tie the game at 1.
- Just over 30 seconds later, Galler won another faceoff which allowed Clingerman to fire a shot that bounced off the goalie, Luke Petrie picked up the groundball and got the ball to Dylan Pencek who found Bradley Holt and the Hornets had a 2-1 lead.
- Austin Sydnor and Logan Clingerman off of assists from Josh Boonshaft and Austin Galler scored back-to-back goals within five seconds with under a minute to go in the first to make it a 4-1 lead.
- 16 seconds into the second, Dylan Pencek scored his first goal of the game, before 30 seconds later scoring his second of the game as the Hornets started to build a large lead.
- Two more shots and a forced turnover from the Hornets happened before Shenandoah scored four more goals over 90 seconds. The Hornets got goals from Sam Poster from Matt Daniel, Dylan Pencek to complete the hat trick from Matt Daniel, Logan Clingerman and Matt Daniel.
- Virginia Wesleyan got one back with 10 minutes remaining in the half to make it a 10-2 lead.
- Logan Clingerman added one more before the half, but not before the Hornets fired seven more shots at the Marlins.
- 8 seconds into the third, Dylan Pencek found Clingerman again as the lead continued to balloon.
- Clingerman scored two more back-to-back goals before Daniel picked up his second and Clark Harrity got in on the scoring action with 7:07 left in the third.
- 90 seconds later, Sam Poster found Luke Petrie making the score 17-2. Petrie then went on to score a man-up goal as the Hornets took advantage of a slashing call putting them on the power play, off an assist from Stephen Graham (which gave him 100 career points).
- In the fourth, the Marlins managed to score twice, but the Hornet lead was too big as Jet Hayes picked up a pair of goals, as well as Caleb Kelley, Dylan Foughty, and Jordan Rogers got his first two career points, a goal, and an assist, as this game was all Hornets.
UP NEXT
The Hornets are off this weekend as they have already received a win via administrative forfeit over Ferrum College. The Hornets did manage to pick up a game at home next week when the McDaniel Green Terror come to town next Wednesday night. That game will start at 7 pm.
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