GAMBIER, Ohio -- It was all smiles for the Kenyon College men's soccer team on Saturday evening. The Lords scored an early goal and never looked back in their dominant performance, drubbing the Muskingum University Fighting Muskies 10-1.

Kenyon put itself on the board early when first-year Gerardo Martinez struck the ball through the heart of the goal a mere 4:44 into the match. The Lords scored again at the 16:11 mark, when Atli Hrafnkelsson crossed the ball to the middle of the box for Scott Upton to nudge past Fighting Muskies goalie Jacob Clevenger.

The Lords were back at it less than two minutes later, when Aidan Schoellkopf and Upton set up Hrafnkelsson for a goal of his own. That gave Kenyon a commanding three-goal lead less than twenty minutes into the game. 

The large lead may have allowed the Lords to grow slightly complacent, however, as just a minute later Schoellkopf committed a foul to give Muskingum a penalty kick which they successfully executed, bringing the score to 3-1. Though both teams threatened, that was the final goal of the first half. For the half Kenyon had 17 shots to Muskingum's four.

Kenyon then opened the second half with a barrage of five goals in thirteen minutes. The first came after the Fighting Muskies Trevor Firkel earned a yellow card. Martinez stepped into the penalty spot and coolly fired the ball past Clevenger to put the Lords up 4-1. 

Just four minutes later, Kenyon secured another penalty kick that resulted in a goal from Schoellkopf, further solidifying the Lords' lead. Three minutes after that, Martinez found Sebastian Gaese, who scored in the bottom right corner to increase the Lords' lead to 6-1. 

That lead soon became 7-1 when Luke Muther knocked in the rebound of a Clevenger save, and then 8-1 after a Sam Hosmer-Quint shot rocketed through the right side of the goal. 

Later in the contest a Muskingum player drew a red car, causing his team to play a man down for the remainder of the contest. The Lords capitalized on that situation in the 83rd minute, as some nice movement from Minkael Soumah set up Alhasan Barrie for a beautiful curler in the top right corner. Shortly afterward, Jacob Lazarus brought the Lords' goal total into double digits with a clean shot into the bottom left corner.

The win was the third straight for the Lords, who improved their record to 3-1-1 on the season. The last two of those three wins came as part of Ohio Wesleyan University's Fred Myers-ADIDAS Invitational with games being played at both Kenyon and Ohio Wesleyan. At the Invitational's conclusion, Hrafnkelsson, Martinez, Upton and Joey Martens were named to the All-Tournament team. Martinez was named tournament co-MVP, along with Ohio Wesleyan's Jaggar Brooker.