Lonteen, Davis Pace Gamecocks In Sunday Rout

Sunday, August 20

JACKSONVILLE

1:00 PM

Jacksonville State University

2-0-0, 0-0-0

South Carolina State

0-2-0, 0-0-0

Team	1	2	Final F
South Carolina St.	0	0	0
Jacksonville St.	5	8	13

8/20/2023 4:48:00 PM | Soccer

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JACKSONVILLE – It was a historic day at the Jax State Soccer Complex as Jacksonville State had a pair of Gamecocks score four goals each for the first time in the program's history in a 13-0 thumping of South Carolina State on Sunday afternoon.

Junior Laleh Lonteen and sophomore Camryn Davis collected four goals each in the Gamecocks second win of the season. The hat trick, plus-one goal is also a first for Jax State with two players posting at least a hat trick in a single contest. Lonteen and Davis become the third and fourth Gamecock all time to have four goals in a match. Former Gamecock Angela Tribble tallied four goals against Birmingham Southern in 2002 and Amy Buchanan was the first Jax State individual to have four goals in a match in September of 1997. Lonteen, from Prosper, Texas, was also credited with three assists, which has not happened in a single match since Madison Carruthers reached that feat in 2015 against Alabama State. Davis, a local product from Gadsden, Alabama, also had an assist. Through two games, the duo has combined for nine goals and 22 points. After the opening weekend of the season, Davis leads the club with five goals after a goal in the Gamecocks' 5-0 season-opening win over Alabama A&M.

"It's been a position change for Cam this year and I have moved her forward to the front line and I have felt like she will help us there with pressing and getting the ball higher on the pitch and she is really clever on the runs," said head coach Sean Fraser.

The scoring output by the Gamecocks was also one of the highest in school history. The 13 goals scored on Sunday ranks second-best since the program began in 1995. Sunday's total was two off of the program record for goals in a game (15) and the most since Jax State tallied 12 goals against Alabama State during the 2008 season.

The Gamecocks controlled the whole game with Lonteen posting the first of five goals in the first 45 minutes in the 17th minute. Lonteen became the second Gamecock this weekend to record a hat trick in one half as she added two more goals in the 21st and 39th minute. Sophomore Naroa Domenech accomplished that feat in Thursday's second half against AAMU. Freshman Alexia Des Croisselles and Davis added goals in the opening half.

"She told me after the game that she should listen to me more often because the goalsshe has scored have come straight from practice and film, so she is doing a great job," added Fraser.

Davis joined Domenech and Lonteen in the hat trick category with three of Jax State's eight goals in the second half. Sophomore Ella Staub was the third Gamecock to have multiple goals in the rout while Domenech added her fourth goal of the season in the half. Redshirt freshman Tia Nagle joined the goal-scoring club with her first as a Gamecock.

The Gamecocks entered the Sunday outing with a pretty good idea that there would be scoring chances available, and they succeeded with 34 total shots in the result and limiting SCSU to three shots in the opening half. Sophomore Bailey Dean and freshman Kacey Powell split time in the goal with both putting together clean sheets.

After the first weekend on the home pitch in the 2023 season, the Gamecocks will hit the road for a pair of matches in Birmingham, Alabama. The first trip will be do Southern Conference favorite Samford on Thursday night, followed by a visit to downtown Birmingham and UAB on Sunday evening. Both matches will get started at 6 p.m. and both will be available on ESPN+.

"We have to build gradually, so these games are big for us next week and those programs are where we want to be, so it will be a great mile marker for as," said Fraser.

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