Sept. 12, 2009

Redlands, Calif. - In the opening round of the Inland Empire Classic, No. 10 Pacific defeated Redlands 12-8. With the win the Tigers improve to 6-0 on the season and Redlands falls to 2-4 on the year. Pacific continues action Saturday, Sept. 12 against Chapman at 1:15 p.m.

In the first quarter, Redlands took an early 1-0 lead at the 6:46 point. The Pacific offense was held scoreless most of the quarter, but senior Grant Hollis (Redlands, Calif.) put the Tigers on the board with his first goal of the day with 3:48 left to play. The Tigers quickly struck again 21 seconds later on a goal by sophomore Tom Koning (Poway, Calif.). to give Pacific the 2-1 lead.

At the start of the second quarter, Redlands struck again scoring at the 7:02 mark, to tie the game at 2-2. Freshman Goran Tomasevic (Split, Croatia) and sophomore Lance Morrison (Fairfield, Calif.) scored 30 seconds apart at the 5:29 and 4:49 marks to put the Tigers up 4-2. Junior Joey Gulllikson (Sonoma, Calif.) scored his first collegiate goal on a penalty shot with 3:35 remaining to give Pacific the 5-2 advantage. Redlands closed out the quarter tallying a score with 1:30 remaining.

Entering the second half, Pacific led Redlands 5-4 but Redlands notched a goal at 7:33 to tie the match for the second time. Sophomore Morrison put the Tigers up 7-5 in the third quarter, scoring his second and third goals of the game at the 4:25 and 1:03 marks.

Pacific scored the first goal of the fourth quarter on a shot by sophomore Koning with 7:36 left in the game. Freshman Tomasevic tallied his second goal of the game to put Pacific up 9-5 on the 6:17 mark. The Tigers concluded the match scoring three additional goals from sophomore Morrison, junior Gullikson and senior Joey Rossi (Ceres, Calif.) at the 4:08, 3:32 and 1:55 points respectively.

Lance Morrison (Fairfield, Calif.) finished the game tallying four goals on five attempts, while sophomore Joey Frantz (Chicago, Ill.) had eight saves in the cage for Pacific.

Scoring Summary

                        Q1        Q2        Q3        Q4        Final

Pacific               2          3          2          5          12

Redlands           1          3          1          3          8

Goals

Pacific: Lance Morrison 4, Joey Gullikson 2, Tom Koning 2, Grant Hollis 1, Joey Rossi 1.

Assists

Pacific: Joey Rossi 3

Steals

Pacific: Goran Tomasevic 3, Joey Frantz 3.

Goalkeeper Saves

Pacific: Joey Frantz 8.