Canton, NY – Three different players scored at least three goals and the SUNY Canton defense held visiting Wells College to just five goals behind a 10 save performance from Kody Kocsis as the Roos earned a 17-5 victory on Tuesday.
 
SUNY Canton (4-1), winners of four straight, scored the first four goals of the contest to jump out to an early lead. The Express (2-2) found the back of the net twice over the final seven minutes of the quarter to get within 4-2 after 15 minutes of play.
 
The Roos outscored Wells 3-1 in the second quarter to take a 7-3 lead into intermission. Canton dominated play in the second half outscoring the visitors, 10-2. The hosts held the upper hand after intermission in shots on goal (16-6), face offs (10-4) and ground balls (31-10).
 
Andrew Garrett led the way with five points on three goals and two assists, while Dante Coco added four goals and six ground balls. Jake Sutton finished with three goals and Trenton Yule and Josh Yelvington added two goals and one assist apiece.
 
Kyle Smith finished with three assists, Yule added six ground balls and Brandon Rodee picked up a game-best seven ground balls. Defensively Tucker Ainslie, Hunter Yerdon and Brandon Schmidt caused two turnovers apiece.
   
Kocsis made 10 saves on 15 shots (.667 save percentage) for the Roos, while Zach Simone stopped 12 shots for Wells.
 
The five goals given up by the Roos are the fewest in a game since they defeated SUNY Poly, 8-5, on March 23rd, 2016.
 
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SUNY Canton is Northern New York's premier college for career-driven bachelor's degrees, associate degrees and professional certificate programs. The college delivers quality hands-on programs in engineering technology, health, management and public service and recently received number one rankings in library resources, library services and tutoring services in the SUNY Student Opinion Survey. The college's faculty members are noted for their professional real-world experience in addition to outstanding academic credentials. SUNY Canton OnLine offers hundreds of flexible and convenient courses as well as 13 exclusively online degrees. The college's 15 athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division III level and are joining the North Atlantic Conference beginning in the 2018-19 academic year.