Photo and release courtesy of FSCMocs.com WINGATE, N.C. – After being held without a point in the first two games of his collegiate career, Florida Southern freshman Lucas Claude exploded on the scene with six goals to guide the Moccasins to a 15-12 win over Wingate Saturday afternoon. Claude paced all scorers while tying the program’s single-game record for goals by a freshman, originally set in the team’s inaugural season in 2009 by Nick Papagikos. The Mocs also received hat tricks from sophomore attackmen Cody Dyer (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Grant VanOverbeke (Rosemount, Minn.). VanOverbeke added an assist to finish with four points, and senior attackman Dane Sorensen scored one goal with two assists, extending his streak of consecutive games with a goal to 27. A dominate first quarter allowed the Mocs to establish a comfortable lead. Claude drove from the restraining line to the crease and had an uncontested shot to beat Wingate goalie Jacob Ormerod high for the first score of the game. The midfielder from Calgary, Alberta, took a shot after the play from Jacob Humerickhouse, leading to an extra-man opportunity on the next possession. Sorensen (Victoria, B.C.) put up the Mocs up by two with the man-up goal 55 seconds later. Sophomore Ryan Wright (Jamesville, N.Y.) and Claude added goals 19 seconds apart at 10:09 and 9:50, respectively, and FSC led 4-0. Sophomore goalie Matt Lalli (New Milford, Conn.) made five of his 10 saves in the first quarter. He stoned Wingate’s Jeremy Sullivan on the doorstep of the goal at 5:04, leading to a goal from VanOverbeke following a quick transition only nine seconds later to give the Mocs a five-goal cushion. The Bulldogs scored their only goal of the first quarter at 4:34 to reduce the deficit to 5-1. VanOverbeke would extend the lead back to five with less than two minutes to go in the opening quarter. Dyer added consecutive goals at the start of the second quarter to give FSC its largest lead at 8-1. Penalties and untimely turnovers by the Mocs allowed the Bulldogs to claw their way back into the game, beginning with an unreleasable three-minute penalty on junior Kyle McLaughlin (Woolwich Township, N.J.) for illegal equipment. Wingate scored three straight man-up goals in a span of 1:40 with McLaughlin in the box. A turnover inside the Mocs’ defensive zone led directly to a Cory Schumacher goal at 8:33. Sullivan then added nearly identical goals from the same location on Lalli’s left side to make it 8-4. Senior midfielder Brendan Mykle-Winkler (Langley, B.C.) netted FSC’s ninth goal, but the Bulldogs added two more, including a Kevin Norman goal with 11 seconds left in the half, and the Mocs led 9-5 at the break. Claude opened the third quarter with a top-shelf goal only 41 seconds into the second half, but Wingate four of the next five to whittle FSC’s lead to one. Tanner Kotch scored back-to-back goals to end the third and open the fourth quarters. His first came off another FSC turnover. Kotch threw a pass out of bounds, giving the Mocs possession on their side of the midfield stripe, but senior defenseman Trenell Boggans (Syracuse, N.Y.) was stripped immediately off the whistle by Schumacher. Kotch recovered from his errant pass with his second goal of the game. His goal at 12:01 in the fourth quarter made it 11-10, Moccasins. The two teams traded scores from there as each time the Bulldogs came within one, the Mocs answered. Claude, who scored four of FSC’s six second-half goals, and VanOverbeke sealed the win with one tally each in the final two minutes. Following a week off from competition, Florida Southern will head back to the Carolinas for games at Limestone on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 1 p.m. and at Lenoir-Rhyne on Monday, March 2 at 1 p.m.