Hanover, IN (Alumni Stadium) - The Hanover College Panthers took on the Spalding University Golden Eagles today at home in their third conference game of the year. Hanover was 8-3 overall heading into today's contest, and 1-1 in HCLC play.
The Panthers handily controlled every aspect of today's game and were able to coast to a 26-5 victory over Spalding through four quarters. Hanover won every statistical category with the exception face-offs while putting up 66 total shots, picking up 60 total ground-balls, and scoring 18 unanswered goals through the second and third quarters.
Hanover had nine different athletes on the stat sheet with goals today, including junior attackman
Colin O'Brien (7), senior attackman
Alex Kleinhelter (5), junior attackman
Ethan Abdoo (3), freshman midfielder
Kasey Hospelhorn (3), senior midfielder
Owen Cuniffe (2), junior defenseman
Josh Adams (2), freshman attackman
Dean Henderson (2), senior midfielder
Owen Parker (1), and sophomore midfielder
Gabe Hetrick (1).
Of the Panther's 26 goals, 16 of them were assisted by one of seven different athletes, including senior midfielder
Owen Parker (5), junior attackman
Ethan Abdoo (4), senior attackman
Alex Kleinhelter (2), junior attackman
Colin O'Brien (2), senior midfielder
Owen Cuniffe (1), junior midfielder
Chris Bishop (1), and freshman attackman
Dean Henderson (1).
HC also saw a ton of success creating turnovers on the defensive end and in transition, coming up with 19 total caused turnovers. Freshman midfielder
Kasey Hospelhorn lead the team in caused-turnovers with 4 total, followed by senior defenseman
Scott Dues (3), junior defenseman
Josh Adams (3), freshman defenseman
Leonard Hughes (3), senior midfielder
Owen Cuniffe (2), junior attackman
Ethan Abdoo (2), senior midfielder
Owen Parker (1), and junior defenseman
Aidan Gonzalez (1).
Senior goalkeeper
Lance Guttormson started and played the entire first-half, stating 6 saves through thirty-minutes of action. Junior goalkeeper
Matthew Hillard started the second half for the Panthers and stopped 4 shots during his time in crease, and freshman goalkeeper
Michael Lang closed the game for the Panthers through the final fifteen minutes of play.
Hanover's next game is next Saturday, April 19th against Earlham College at 1:00PM EST. The game will be in Aulmni Stadium and the team will be honoring their seniors for Senior Day as this is also their last regular season game of the 2025 season.
Statistical Standouts from today's contest for the Panthers include:
Ethan Abdoo (Jr, A) - 3 G | 4 Ast | 7 GB | 2 CTO
Colin O'Brien (Jr, A) - 7 G | 2 Ast | 7 GB
Owen Cuniffe (Sr, MF) - 2 G | 1 Ast | 6 GB | 2 CTO
