The Ohio Machine still remain winless on the season following a 13-7 defeat at the hands of the Charlotte Hounds. The game was a hard fought battle from the two expansion seasons of last season. Eric Lusby led the Hounds to victory receiving the player-of-the-game award with a five goal effort.
The Hounds now find themselves tied with the Rochester Rattlers for the fourth position in the standing at a 3-3 record. The Machine remain the bottle dwellers of the league at a winless record of 0-6.
The game was as close as it gets through the first two quarters of the game. Logan Schuss, a rookie for the Machine, had the first two goals of the game for the Machine. Brett Garber and Joe Cummings had the other two goals for the Machine for the first half.
Eric Lusby had two goals for the Hounds and Matt Danowski scored his first two point goal of the season. The score was locked 4-4 at halftime.
The Hounds then exploded in the third quarter outscoring the Machine 8-2 in the quarter alone. Matt Danowksi began the third quarter explosion for the Hounds followed by his first MLL goal for Matt White. Brian Carroll, Mike Swayer, Peet Poillon, and Danowksi scored four straight goals respectively. Danowski then scored his third goal of the season before Steele Stanwick of the Machine scored his lone goal of the season. The third quarter was concluded by two more goals by Eric Lusby.
Marcus Holman scored a quick goal in the early part of the fourth quarter before Lusby scored his fifth and final goal of the game.
The Machine look to break this winless season as they look forward to hosting the 1-5 Boston Cannons next weekend.
