MT. VERNON, Iowa – In his first contest for the Black and Gold Cole Schwartz (So., Jakarta, Indonesia) recorded a hat trick to help propel the Gusties to a 5-0 win over Cornell.
After a slow start to the first half the Gusties finally struck the first blow when Raphael Cattelin (Fy., Edina, Minn.) found Schwartz for the goal to put the Gusties ahead 1-0 18:08 into the contest. Just over 17 minutes later Cattelin found Schwartz for another goal at 35:45 to extend the lead. Less than a minute and a half later Nolan Garvin (Jr., Batavia, Ill.) scored off an assist from Schwartz to give Gustavus a 3-0 lead going into the half.
In half number two it didn’t take long for the Gusties to get rolling again as Schwartz scored his third goal of the contest, this one unassisted, to put Gustavus up 4-0. Once again the Gusties struck quickly when 2018 All-American selection Matt Gibbons (Jr., Minneapolis, Minn.) tallied his first points of the season with an unassisted goal to give the Black and Gold a 5-0 lead that they would maintain for the victory.
Schwartz’s hat trick is the third in as many years for Gustavus as Arthur Parens tallied one in each of the past two seasons. The seven points are also the most points in a single game by the Gusties since Mike Butterworth notched eight at Grinnell on September 1, 2007.
In the contest the Gusties outshot the Rams 13-9 overall with all five of their shots on goal finding the back of the net.
Wesley Sanders (Fy., Urbandale, Iowa) got his first collegiate start and victory in net, making four saves and allowing no goals.
The Gusties will next be in action on Sept. 5 when they travel to Martin Luther in New Ulm, Minn. for a 4:30 p.m. start.