Spartans dominant in 2012 opening win over Oberlin

Every Spartan saw acton in the 12-3 win.

Box Score The 2012 season arrived Saturday afternoon on Vago Field for the AU men's lacrosse team as they hosted the Yeomen of Oberlin College.

The Spartans jumped on the visitors early and never looked back while posting an impressive 12-3 victory.

AU sophomore goalkeeper Adam Holka was the story of the day as he and the Spartan defense made offensive chances for the Yeomen come few and far between. In the first period, AU allowed just three shots, none of which Holka had to stop, while the Spartan offense took advantage of their possessions scoring five goals in the opening period.

Spartan freshman Max Heytens tallied the first goal of the game and his first collegiate goal with 8:31 on the clock. His unassisted goal woke up the AU offense that was somewhat stagnant up to that point in the contest.

Heytens goal was also the first of four goals by Spartan freshmen in the period with Andrew Schoessel, Max Obriecht and Jordan Williams scoring goals while sophomore Garret Rosiek scored one as well. The

goal by Obriecht proved to be the game-winner.

AU continued to build their lead in the second period as Holka continued to preserve the shutout and entering halftime, AU led Oberlin 8-0. econd period goals were scored by Danny Loyall, Schoessel and Justin Bose.

Oberlin came out of the halftime intermission and showed that they would not go down easily to the young Spartans. The Yeomen scored two goals to start the period.

AU would respond with two goals, one each from Bose and sophomore Zachary Olsen before Oberlin scored their third and final goal with 10 seconds to play in the period. At the end of three periods, AU led 10-3.

The fourth period found AU Head Coach Kylor Berkman rotate in his entire bench and Loyall tallied two more goals for his first collegiate hat trick.

As the final horn sounded, AU won in decisive fashion, 12-3 in front of a chilled home crowd.

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