The Colorado State Rams (3-0 overall, 2-0 league) followed up on their 12-3 victory against Colorado with a strong statement against the Colorado School of Mines on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Scoring came often as 11 different players tallied for the Rams in a convincing 23-3 rout of league foe Mines.
The first quarter saw limited CSU goals, as Mines goaltender Chad Ones played well. Once CSU was able to crack the egg at the 6:37 mark in the first, the Rams were able to put 3 past him despite him making some solid saves. Sophomore Andrew Kliewer played very well in his first ever start as a goalie recording 9 saves. Sophomore Jim Hasson (3 goals, O assists) led the offense for CSU with 2 first quarter goals.
Colorado State scored three more in the second before Jeff Chan finally beat Kliewer to make the score 6-1. That was as close as Mines got, however, as CSU answered with three goals in one minute to push the lead to eight. Pat Lambert (1g, 0a, 7/9 face-offs) scored a goal with less than one second in the half and the Rams lead was 13-1.
The second half was more of the same as CSU got everyone plenty of playing time while outscoring Mines 9-2. This game marked the third in a row that an opponent was held to under five goals by the CSU defense. State dominated almost every statistical category including decisive margins in shots (74-28) and groundballs (90-30). Lambert, Andy Wolper (8/9 face-offs), and Kale Nelson (2g, 3a, 7/7 face-offs) controlled the face-offs for CSU. Also playing well for the Rams were freshman John Naab (2g, 3a) and Todd Clements (3g, 1a). Next up for CSU is a game with the Warrior Lacrosse club on Sunday afternoon in Fort Collins.
| Clears: CSU 22/26 85% CSM 14/35 40% |
Turnovers: CSU 17 UNC 10 |
Extra-man: CSU 2/7 29% CSM 0/3 0% |
| Face-offs: CSU- 27/30 90% Nelson (7/7), Mueller (3/3), Beasley (2/2) Seidel (1/1), Wolper (8/9), Lambert (7/9) CSM- 3/30 10% Podalack (2/8), Teleen (1/8), Donlin (0/8), Lutz (0/3), others (0/3) |
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| Penalties: CSU- 4 penalties for 3:30 Williams, Shultz and Firks (1:00), Naab (:30) CSM- 8 penalties for 6:30 Donlin and Peonic (2:00), Podalack and McGee (1:00), Fecko (:30) |
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| Saves: CSU- Kliewer 2ga, 9s, 82% Martin 1ga, 3s, 75% CSM- Ones 23ga, 20s, 47% |
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| Goals: CSU- 23 Clements and Hasson (3), Mike Hamm, Beasley, Worth, Roth, Naab, and Nelson (2), Priebe, Davis, Lambert, Husson, and Seidel (1) CSM- 3 Chan (2), Lutz |
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| Assists: CSU- 12 Naab and Nelson (3), Napollili and Shultz (2), Matt Hamm and Clements CSM- 0 |
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| Groundballs: CSU- 90 Nelson (9), Clements (8), Hasson (7), Mueller (6), Naab (5), Beasley (4), Worth, Martin, Hussson, and Lambert (3), Napollili, Firks, Kliewer, Davis, Wolper (2), Ferrin, Roth, Jer. Smith, Gemperline, Gardner, Klassen, Glishinski, Matlock, Seidel, Priebe, and Matt Hamm (1) CSM- 30 Podalack and Lutz (6), Chan (5), McCarthy (4), Ruelf (3), Kraft and Peonic (2), Feck (1) |
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| Shots: CSU- 74 total, 43 on goal CU- 28 total, 16 on goal |
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