Box Score

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – Augustana bolted to leads of 7-0 after one period and 12-0 at the half Tuesday and went on to defeat Cornell by a score of 17-2 at Thorson-Lucken Field. The Vikings improve to 6-2 on the season, while the Rams fall to 1-3.
 
Juniors Scott Davis (St. Thomas Aquinas HS, Overland Park, Kan.) and Jonathan Bryk (Palatine HS, Palatine, Ill.) and freshman John Danko (Lockport HS, Lockport, Ill.) all scored in a span of 44 seconds to put the hosts up 3-0 less than three minutes into the game. Junior Kevin Gleason (Loyola Academy, Chicago, Ill.) assisted on Davis' goal, while Bryk's and Danko's were unassisted.
 
Gleason scored twice in succession just 34 seconds apart and Augustana led 5-0 with the first period barely half over. Davis returned the earlier favor and assisted on Gleason's second tally.
 
Freshman Hayden Holland (Owatonna HS, Owatonna, Minn.) recorded his first assist of the season on Davis' 16th goal of the year and Bryk found the net to put the Vikings up 7-0 at the end of the first quarter.
 
Gleason added another goal—his 16th of the season—in the second quarter. Danko scored twice and seniors Vincent Giglierano (Archbishop Mitty HS, San Jose, Calif.) and Mike McAleer (Downers Grove South HS, Bolingbrook, Ill.) added goals to make it 12-0 at halftime.
 
Four different Vikings scored Augustana's five second-half goals as Coach Kyle Hart went deep into his bench. McAleer scored his second of the night. Junior Andrew Miller (Waukesha North HS, Waukesha, Wis.) found the net twice and junior Kyle Doner (Peak to Peak Academy, Erie, Colo.) and sophomore J.P. Palasek (Montini Catholic HS, Wheaton, Ill.) each scored for the first time this season. Michael Paquette and Carlos Siguenza scored Cornell's goals late in the third and fourth quarters, respectively.
 
Reigning CCIW Defensive Player of the Week Jack Peters (Maine South HS, Park Ridge, Ill.) went the first 30 minutes in goal, stopping all seven shots that he faced. He was relieved by freshman Jake Ellis (Neuqua Valley HS, Naperville, Ill.) and senior Jon Pape (Hoffman Estates HS, Hoffman Estates, Ill.) in the second half.
 
Gleason and Danko finished with three goals each, with Bryk, Davis, McAleer and Miller adding two apiece. Palasek's two assists were a team high. Junior Jerrell Collymore (Homewood-Flossmoor HS, Flossmoor, Ill.) won 11 of 14 faceoffs and snared a team-high seven ground balls.
 
Augustana outshot Cornell by a 34-21 margin, had a 34-30 advantage in ground balls and committed 23 turnovers to 25 for the visitors.
 
On Sunday, March 22, the Vikings will travel to Lexington, Kentucky to face Huntingdon in a neutral site contest on the campus of Transylvania University.