Cabrini cruised past another ranked team,No. 12 Denison University, at Edith Robb Dixon Field with a 13-8 win on Saturday, April 6.
Cabrini started off the game a little slow but controlled the ball in the attacking zone. After about three minutes of play, and a couple of blocked shots, sophomore Mike Leyden struck first blood in the contest.
Play went back and forth for about five minutes before sophomore Damian Sobieski got his first goal of his eventual hat trick.
Not to be outdone, junior Corey Elmer scored extending the Cav’s lead to three early in the first quarter.
Just after the five-minute mark sophomore Anthony DiSanzo scored the forth unanswered goal of the period.
With just over a minute left Denisin finally got on the board to make the score 4-1 in favor of the Cavs going into the second quarter.
The second quarter started off slow. Then just before the 12-minute mark Denison struck again bringing them within two.
Denison then scored again two minutes later making it a one-goal game after three unanswered goals.
From then on, the momentum switched and it was in Cabrini’s favor for the rest of the second quarter.
Elmer had a hat trick in the last 10 minutes of the quarter, with one of the goals while the Cavs were a man down. The Cavs were now up 7-3 heading into the third quarter.
Just 27 seconds into the quarter, Sobieski scored making it four unanswered goals for the Cavs.
Denison controlled the attacking play after that getting on the board again making the score 8-4 in favor of the Cavs.
Cabrini then scored two goals in a row. The first was with a man-up oppotunity by Sobieski finishing his hat trick on the day. Elmer also scored in the outburst tallying his fifth of the day.
To finish off the quarter Denison scored two goals in a row.
The Cavs didn’t back down firing shots at the net in the last minute with no fortune of one finding the back of the net and the score stayed at 10-6.
The fourth quarter started off with the Cavaliers bursting offensively with two goals from Elmer in the opening minute.
Less than two minutes later the Cavs struck again with a goal from sophomore Ethan Heisman extending their lead to seven.
The scoring subsided for about five minutes before Denison scored. Then three minutes later they scored again icing the score at 13-8 Cavs.
Looking ahead the Cavs play at home again on Wednesday, April 10 at 6:30 p.m. when they host Rosemont College.
