Steven Stark,
Collin Brennan, and
Joseph Plencner each scored six goals in Wednesday's 21-2 victory by the Wabash lacrosse team over the first-year program from Anderson University.
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Wabash (3-4) outshot Anderson 62 to 21 and led the shots-on-goal category 36 to 8. Stark handed out five assists to go with his six goals to set a new Wabash team mark for points in a game with 11. The Little Giant defense posted a school-record 22 caused turnovers.
Zach LaRue led the way with seven caused turnovers.
Chase Cochran and
Aaron Elsing each caused three turnovers in the game.
Max Atkins finished the game with six saves.
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Stark scored the first goal of the game three minutes into the contest. Anderson (1-4) answered to even the score two minutes later before the Little Giants rolled off three more goals in the first capped by a behind-the-back shot into the net by
Collin Brennan off a pass from Plencner to provide a 4-1 Wabash lead at the period break.
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Plencner started the scoring in the second period with his second goal of the game. Cochran added his first of two goals in the game at the 9:44 mark of the second to put Wabash in front 6-1. Brennan and Stark added the final two goals of the period to provide an 8-1 advantage at halftime.
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Wabash added two goals from Plencner along with goals from Stark and Brennan in the third period to move in front 12-1. Brennan added three goals in fourth period while Brennan and Stark each tallied two goals in the final 15 minutes.
Drayden Hansen closed out the scoring with his first goal of the season for the 21-2 victory.
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John Rodgers picked up nine ground balls to lead Wabash and finished 7-of-15 from the faceoff dot. LaRue scooped up eight of the Little Giants' 52 ground balls in the game to go with his seven caused turnovers and won seven of his nine faceoff efforts. Cochran grabbed seven ground balls and
Frank Russel added four ground balls to the team total.
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Wabash returns to action this Saturday with a 1 p.m. contest at Trine University.
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