(Photo Courtesy of Delaware Athletics)
When the Blue Hens marched onto Delaware Stadium Tuesday night to defend their home turf against a visiting Saint Joseph’s squad, all the talk surrounded the return of Blue Hens stars Charlie Kitchen and Owen Grant after missing the first two contests of the season. But once that opening whistle blew, it didn’t take long before it was clear which player’s name would soon fill the mouths of lacrosse fans everywhere.
The lacrosse world would not be glamorizing over a killer named Kitchen, but punisher from Peterborough.
Mike Robinson scored the first two goals and three of the first four of the game for the Blue Hens. And then he would score again, and again, and again. Robinson eventually found the back of the net seven times in the first half of play and twice in the fourth quarter to end the game with a career and CAA single-game record of nine goals. It’s the most goals scored in a game by a Blue Hen since Hayler Osborn put up nine