No. 7 Men's Lacrosse Blasts Point
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
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Tennessee Wesleyan (2-1, 1-1) | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 26 |
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Point (0-6, 0-2) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
West Point, Ga.- The men's lacrosse team, ranked No. 7 in the NAIA, went on the road for the first time this season. The schedule took the Bulldogs on the road to face the Point University Skyhawks in an Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) game.
Tennessee Wesleyan scored the first five goals of the contest, not conceding a goal until 1:30 was left in the first quarter. Robert Holekamp scored four of the first five goals for the team with Kennedy Moore scoring the remaining goal to give the team a 5-0 advantage. Jackson Lollis scored a goal with 15 seconds remaining in the first quarter, giving the Bulldogs a 6-1 advantage to begin the second quarter.
TWU added nine goals to their lead in the second quarter. The opponents did not score at all. Six different players scored for the Bulldogs in the quarter. Carson Bowling started off the scoring while scoring a second goal a few minutes later. Matthew Tullock, Kennedy Moore (2), Kyle Gasior (2), Hayden Harmon, and Lollis all followed, making score 15-1 at halftime.
By the end of the third quarter, the Bullldogs had 21 goals, and a 18-goal advantage. After Point scored the first two goals, Jack Driscoll scored the first goal of the third quarter. Twenty seconds later, Holekamp scored his first of three goals in the quarter. Lollis scored two goals 14 seconds apart, which along with the goals from Holekamp and Driscoll, moved the score to 21-3.
In the fourth quarter, five more goals went towards Tennessee Wesleyan's score. Lollis and Carson scored the first two of the five. Wes Christian and Daniel Paine added two more of the five, and Tullock added the fifth. The final score read 26-5 for the Bulldogs.
Holekamp finished with seven goals in the game to go along with five by Lollis. Bowling and Moore each had three goals while Gasior and Tullock had two goals each. Christian, Driscoll, Paine, and Harmon each had one goals. Moore led with four assists. In the net, Jack Shaw finished with 15 saves.
TWU (2-1, 1-1 AAC) will be back in action on Wednesday. The team will play a neutral site game against University of Michgian-Dearborn at Montreat College beginning at 3:00 p.m.