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Dodgeville-Mineral Point senior Zach Nelson scored a hat trick in the first half and added one more goal in the second half as his soccer team thumped Richland Center 8-0 Thursday in SWC play.
Just 10 minutes into the contest Nelson scored his first goal on a pass from Asa Bucci. His next one came unassisted at the 18:00 point with his third of the half at the 33:00 mark on an assist from Jack Neal.
D-P's Tobias Funke, a foreign exchange student who attends Mineral Point High School, scored at the 56:00 mark to open the second half after a pass from Ben Radosevich.
Josh Swanson hit Nelson with a pass that he ripped the net with at the 74;00 mark. Then Kyle Fitzsimmons scored an unassisted goal at the 83:00 mark.
Jack Schickel scored seconds later and Isaac Nagel finished the route at the 88:00 mark.
The Dodge-Point defense was stellar all day long as goalie Noah Goetzke was only called on to make two saves.
Saturday the team topped Lodi 7-4 in a non-conference match-up.
Lodi's Chris Nelson scored a hat trick in the first half, but Dodge-Point held a 4-3 led at the intermission.
Dodge-Point's Jack Neal opened their scoring with an unassisted goal at 16:47, their own Nelson (Zach) scored unassisted at 24:01, Josh Swanson took a pass from Nelson for a score at 32:15 and Nelson scored at the 40:10 mark.
Gerrit Bakker came up with his hat trick in the second half, scoring unassisted goals at 48:52, 52:39 and 63:23.
Goalie Noah Goetzke made siven saves while Storhoff made 10 for Lodi.
Dodge-Point coach Kyle Glynn said about he Lodi match, "We played a very good team game against Lodi. We kept possession of the ball for the majority of the game, and even though we gave up an early goal we kept our heads up and fought back. We had some great goals - a header off of a corner kick by Josh Swanson, a great one-touch shot by Zach Nelson, and Gerrit Bakker scored a hat trick, among other goals. That was by far our best game we've played so far this year in all aspects of the game.