Box Score QUICK HIT: The SCAD Savannah men's soccer team won its home opener Monday evening with a 4-3 win over the visiting Buffaloes of Milligan College.
 
DID YOU KNOW? This is head coach Darren Spong's first season as a collegiate head coach and this win marks the first in his career.
 
RECORDS: The Bees are now 1-1-0 while the Buffaloes are now 0-1-1.
 
HAT TRICK FOR FRESHMAN: Cian Lynch, a freshman from Dublin, Ireland made a hat trick in the first half of the game scoring the first, second and fourth goals for the Bees.
 
BOX SCORE: Despite scoring all of its goals in the first half, SCAD outshot Milligan 23-12 with 12 of those 23 shots on goal.
 
Lynch led both teams in shots with nine – seven on goal – while Tom Barry took six. Alejandro Rodriguez and Arthur Bello Viega totaled three and Johan Renli and Callum Etches tallied one each.
 
Goalie Will Barnett earned the win and made two saves – the last coming with 2.5 seconds left on the clock on a shot that would have sent the game into overtime if it had gone in.
 
WHAT'S NEXT? The Bees will host St. Andrews on Friday, August 25 at 6 p.m. on the first day of the SCAD Invitational.