LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Sophomore
Barron Dobson (Shreveport, LA) scored four goals, and sophomore
Cooper Goss (Suffolk) scored three goals and added two assists to help Hampden-Sydney College take a 22-3 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) victory over Randolph College on Wednesday afternoon at WildCat Stadium.
It was just before halfway in the game before the Tigers got the scoring started in the first, but Dobson scored three straight in a minute and 22 seconds, with assists from senior
Patrick Hanes (Raleigh, NC) and freshman
Max Schneider (Woodford). 38 seconds later, H-SC pushed the lead to four, with freshman
Scott Thompson (Charlotte, NC) and sophomore
Cole Palmer (Atlanta, GA) scoring 11 seconds later. Dobson scored his fourth of the quarter just 15 seconds after Palmer, putting home the Thompson feed. H-SC closed the quarter with three goals in the final two minutes, the first coming from junior
Cameron Van Lunen (Southern Shores, NC) off the pass from junior
Trey Black (Pinehurst, NC), with the final two coming first from freshman
Brenden Kittner (Freeland, MD) and the second from Palmer to make it 9-0 going into the second.
Black started the account for the Tigers in the second quarter when he converted the feed from Goss with 12:08 remaining. Just under two minutes later, Goss went from assisting to scoring when he scored off the feed from junior
Will Thompson (Charlotte, NC). The WildCats answered less than a minute later, before
Will Thompson also went from scoring to assisting when he put home the pass from sophomore
Bryce Harnsberger (Advance, NC). H-SC closed the scoring in the first half when Goss put home his second of the afternoon on the pass from freshman
Sam Messinger (Charlottesville) to go into the break, up 13-1.
The Tigers took less than a minute to add to their lead in the third quarter, when junior
Alex Wagner (Cary, NC) finished the pass from sophomore
Nick Winchell (Wilmington, DE) to push the lead to 13. Messinger added to the lead just under halfway through the quarter when he put home the pass from freshman
Tre Carter (Jacksonville, FL). Randolph answered immediately to cut the lead back to 13, before Carter answered back with 1:55 remaining, putting the pass from sophomore
McGuire Boyd (Richmond) past the goalie. The WildCats responded with a goal with 15 seconds remaining to make it 16-3 going into the final quarter.
Goss got his hat trick to start the scoring in the fourth quarter, finishing the Winchell feed just under a minute and a half in. Goss then assisted on the following goal, 36 seconds later, when he found
Scott Thompson for the finish. The Tigers then scored three goals in less than a minute, starting with sophomore
Charlie Olivier (Atlanta, GA) scoring off the feed from fifth-year student
Harry Deller (Baltimore, MD) at the 12:11 mark, with sophomore
Kaidan Garst (Salem) scoring the second off the pass from junior
Weston Totty (Salem), and Totty scoring the final goal at the 11:42 mark. H-SC had one more goal in it, as Schneider scored off a Wagner pass to make it 22-3.
Defensively, the Tigers were led by Boyd, who, in addition to his one assist, caused four turnovers and grabbed five ground balls. Palmer caused two turnovers on the afternoon and grabbed four ground balls, and junior
Will Robinson (Kitty Hawk, NC) caused two turnovers.
Senior
Will Palmer (Atlanta, GA) got the start in net and played the first 15 minutes. Junior
Matthew Dryer (Severna Park, MD) played the second quarter and made one save. Freshman
Hastings Fava (Severna Park, MD) played the entire second half and made three saves.
The Tigers will be back in action when they return home to play nationally ranked No. 3 University of Lynchburg on Saturday, April 18. The game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at Hellmuth-Gibson Field.
