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Skyhawks overwhelm Grizzlies
Fort Lewis came to Alamosa far from the dominating team of 2009, but the Skyhawks quickly showed signs of their old ways.
The Skyhawks improved to 4-3-0 overall and 3-0-0 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference with a commanding 6-0 victory over the Grizzlies on Friday afternoon. With the loss, the Grizzlies fell to 0-6-0 on the season, 0-3-0 in the RMAC.
On the road to the NCAA Division II National Championship, the Skyhawks pounded Adams State 9-1 in Durango. On Friday, Fort Lewis spent most of the day on the attack, putting up 43 shot, 20 of them on goal. The Grizzlies managed three shots, none of them on goal.
Fort Lewis tallied its first goal of the match in the 15th minute, when Keane Hamilton found Thomas Hoang who put in a strike from 30 yards out on the Skyhawks’ ninth shot of the game. Less than four minutes later, Fort Lewis was up 2-0 as Joey Madigan scored an unassisted goal. The Skyhawks would put in one more goal before intermission, as freshman Jordan Alexander scored in the 33rd minute off an assist from Kyle Wood.
The Skyhawks then scored all three second half goals in a 10-minute span, including a header off a corner kick just 3:40 into the second stanza. Defender Jamie Cunningham delivered the header off a corner from Hoang. Hoang added to the lead with a 56th minute penalty kick goal. Hamilton finished the scoring in the 59th minute when Alexander sprung him with a pass that beat two defenders.
Five different players found the net for Fort Lewis and eight different players tallied multiple shots in the game. Wood was the leading player with eight shots in the contest and four on goal while notching an assist.
“We scored goals from different areas,” head coach Oige Kennedy said. “The younger guys came in and did very well. Thomas Hoang had two goals and looked very strong in the midfield.”
On Sunday, the Grizzlies will host Mesa State for the second time in three weeks at 1 p.m. After its season opener against Eastern New Mexico, Adams State hosted the Mavericks on Sept. 5 and fell by a score of 4-1. Fort Lewis wraps up its three-game road trip at UC-Colorado Springs (1-6-0 overall, 0-3-0 RMAC) at noon on Sunday.
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