Cal State Fullerton

Pomona, Calif. — The Fullerton Titans completed their 4-0 Gary Troyer Tournament appearance on Saturday with wins over La Verne and Whittier. Fullerton defeated the La Verne Leopards 20-14, their highest scoring victory of the season and followed with a 14-8 win over the Whittier Poets.
 
Titans 20, La Verne 14
The Fullerton Titans defeated the La Verne Leopards 20-14 in game one of two on Saturday. Fullerton tallied a season-high 20 goals on the Leopards. Denes Dobi and Cade Zeilinger each recorded a hat trick on Saturday morning. 
 
Dobi and Ethan MacLeod scored first, putting the Titans up by two, just two minutes into the game. La Verne scored one before Carmelo Bangs logged a goal to put the Titans up 3-1. The Leopards then followed up with four-straight goals to end the period. CSF trailed 5-3 going into the second quarter. 
 
The Titans outscored the Leopards 6-4 in the second period. Bangs logged the first two while Jace Peterson, Samuel Branco, Cade Zeilinger, Ethan Merritt and Francisco Paredes added on to the Titans score. The game was all tied up at 9 going into the second half. 
 
Fullerton had their largest scoring quarter of the game in the third where they posted seven. Dobi and Zeilinger each tallied two in the third to complete their hat tricks. Paredes, Peterson and Jason Joseph also scored to put the Titans up 16-11 after three. 
 
MacLeod and Branco notched two goals while Ryan O'Donovan fell one short of a fourth quarter hat trick. La Verne tallied three in the fourth, but it wasn't enough to catch up to the Titans. 
 
Zachary Shouka guarded the cage for the first half, recording two saves. Cy Hammerstein entered the game in the second half and logged four saves. 
 
Titans 14, Whittier College 8
 
In the first quarter, the Titans struck first as MacLeod and Peterson went back-to-back to start the game. The Poets then nabbed one before Joseph scored to keep the Titans on top. 
 
Macleod and Joseph each tallied their second goals of the game in the second quarter. Dobi and Zeilinger also found the back of the net to put the Titans up 8-6 at the end of the first half. 
 
The Titans tallied three straight goals against the Poets before they found the back of the net in the third period. Paredes, Zeilinger and Marton Thuroczy went back-to-back-to-back to tally the three Titans goals to kick off the second half.
 
MacLeod got the fourth started with his third goal of the night on a penalty shot. Thuroczy scored a goal with just over a minute remaining before Tony Benedetti scored to seal the 4-0 weekend.
 
Zeilinger and MacLeod led the Titans with a hat trick each on Saturday evening. Hammerstrom spent all 32 minutes in the cage, logging four saves.
 
The Titans will prepare to take on UC Irvine for the conference opener on October 9 at 6 p.m. in Irvine.
 
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