LYNCHBURG, VA – Sophomore Tyler Tolson (Lutherville, MD/Loyola Blakefield) scored five times to lead the sixth-ranked Lynchburg College men's lacrosse team to a 13-4 win over the College of Wooster Wednesday evening.

Tolson scored the game's first goal four minutes in, but the Fighting Scots answered back at the 8:27 mark. The Hornets would rattle off seven-straight goals to take a commanding 8-1 lead early in the third quarter.

Junior Stephen Weis (St. Louis, MO/Christian Brothers) delivered three goals and two assists and Ryan Cranston (West Chester, PA/Henderson) scored twice. Johnny Black (Timonium, MD/St. Paul's) and Kyle McGuire (Burke, VA/Robinson) each posted a goal and two assists while Garrett Curran (Hull, MA/Tabor Academy) made seven saves and allowed just two goals in 45 minutes in net.

Mark Weschler had a goal and an assist for Wooster (3-1). The Hornets out shot the Fighting Scots 43-24, but Wooster won 11 of the game's 21 face-offs.

Lynchburg (4-0) hosts Virginia Wesleyan College Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in an Old Dominion Athletic Conference game.

Score by Period       1  2  3  4  Tot
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Wooster.............  1  0  1  2 -  4
Lynchburg College...  2  5  6  0 - 13
 
Wooster SCORING:
GOALS: Mark Weschler 1; Chris Gatsch 1; Hisham Hassan 1;
       Chris Vaccaro 1.
ASSISTS: Sam Carmony 1; Dave Loudenslager 1; Mark Weschler 1.
 
Lynchburg College SCORING:
GOALS: Tyler Tolson 5; Stephen Weis 3; Ryan Cranston 2;
       Kyle McGuire 1; Johnny Black 1; Michael Mundorf 1.
ASSISTS: Johnny Black 2; Kyle McGuire 2; Stephen Weis 2.
 
Shots by period       1  2  3  4  Tot
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Wooster.............  4  7  4  9 - 24
Lynchburg College... 15 10 14  4 - 43
 
Ground balls by prd   1  2  3  4  Tot
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Wooster.............  7  7  8  7 - 29
Lynchburg College...  8 11 10  7 - 36
 
Face-offs by prd       1     2     3     4    Total
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Wooster.............  3-4   4-6   4-8   0-3  - 11-21
Lynchburg College...  1-4   2-6   4-8   3-3  - 10-21
 
Clears by period       1     2     3     4    Total
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Wooster.............  5-9   3-5   2-5   7-8  - 17-27
Lynchburg College...  6-6   7-8   4-5   5-5  - 22-24
 
Extra-man opps         1     2     3     4    Total
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Wooster.............  0-0   0-0   0-0   0-2  -  0-2
Lynchburg College...  0-0   0-1   0-0   0-0  -  0-1
 
Saves by period       1  2  3  4  Tot
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Wooster.............  7  1  3  4 - 15
Lynchburg College...  3  2  2  4 - 11
 
PENALTIES - WOOM 1/1:00; LC 2/2:00.

2007-03-15