Box Score VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Hood College's Ben Gilbert won the opening face off, scored the fastest goal in program history and the Blazers never looked back in a 22-13 win over The Sage Colleges to wrap up the team's spring break trip. 

Inside the Box Score

• Cody Upman led Hood with four goals scored, one of seven players with a multi-goal performance. 
• Michael Mullen had three goals and two assists and caused two turnovers. 
• Jason Jaworksi matched Mullen's five points with two goals and three assists. 
• Patrick Hurley scored three goals and added an assist and five ground balls to his afternoon. 
• Bentley LeBarron and Jackson Hand finished with identical lines of two goals and two assists. LeBarron joined Mullen, Zach Flecksteiner and Michael Cook with two caused turnovers apiece. 
• Jay Lanigan scored twice. 
• Gilbert went a perfect 13-for-13 on faceoffs with nine ground balls. Garrett Hitchens was 13-for-15 and Shawn Wise finished 5-of-9. 
• Hood used six goalies in the contest. Kyle Morgenroth played 31 minutes and made four saves. Trenton Lazorchak stopped one shot in the third quarter. Jacob Smidt, Jesse Myers, Alex Dudziak and Sebastian Seymour split the fourth quarter before Morgenroth closed out the final 1:28. Smidt made four saves and Seymour turned two shots away. 

How it Happened

• Gilbert won the face off to start the game and needed just five seconds to race down the field and score, two seconds faster than the previous Hood record by Randolph Clark against District of Columbia in 2014. 
• Jaworski took an assist from Hurley with 10:55 left in the first quarter before Sage got on the board with 5:24 remaining on a goal by Sherrod Banton. After LeBarron scored at 2:28, Upman notched his first with six seconds left to make it 4-1 at the end of the quarter. 
• Goals by Kyle Scott, Lanigan and Hurley made it 7-1 just 90 seconds into the second quarter. The Gators received back-to-back goals by Aaron Heyman and Bailey Martin to pull within 7-3 just two minutes later but the Blazers answered with a six-goal run.  Upman started the run, with Mullen and Hurley each scoring back-to-back goals for a 12-3 edge. After Jaworski made it a 10-goal lead with 3:34 to play, Banton scored for Sage to make it 13-4 at halftime. 
• Four different players scored for Hood in the third quarter as the Blazers stretched it to 17-7. The Gators opened the fourth quarter scoring but three Blazers scored in a span of 66 seconds to give Hood its biggest lead, 20-8, with 8:57 to go. Hand scored at 10:03 and Hitchens won the next face off and raced down the field for a goal just six seconds later. LeBarron then took advantage of a Sage penalty to push the lead to 12. 

Analysis

• Hood won the game's first 10 faceoffs and finished 31-of-38 in the game. Four of the Gators' seven faceoff victories came via Blazer violations. Hood's dominance on faceoffs resulted in a 61-30 advantage in ground balls. 
• The Blazers started 0-for-3 on extra man opportunities before converting their final four to end the day 4-for-7. 
• Hood outshot Sage 55-35. 

For the Opponent

• Robert Martin led Sage with four goals and Banton added three. Heyman tallied five points on two goals and three assists.
• Michael Capitelli made 15 saves. 

Notes

• Hood improves to 4-2 on the season. 
• Sage dipped to 2-5. 

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Due to COVID-19, all athletic practices and competitions through at least Sunday, March 29 are postponed and will be rescheduled, if possible.