Box Score LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Despite controlling the play, Randolph struggled to find the net for much of the night.
No. 16/17 Randolph (12-0-1, 7-0 ODAC) took 40 of the game's 46 shots and had all but one of the game's 15 corners, but at intermission the ODAC's top team found themselves in a deadlock with Emory & Henry (2-13, 1-6 ODAC).
The team's best chance in the first 45:00 came when Joe Skaja (Yorktown, Va./Grafton) broke free in the middle of the field and beat the keeper, but the assistant referee deemed the senior to be a hair offside.
A minute into the second half, however, Corey Sindle (Gloucester, Va./Gloucester) finally got the WildCats on the scoreboard with a jumping kick off a failed clear on a Jacob Lusczek (Fredericksburg, Va./Chancellor) corner kick.
The seniors teamed up again six minutes later as Lusczek played a low ball into the box where Sindle found space and deposited it in the back of the net.
With the two goals, Sindle moves into the ODAC all-time record book for points, where he now sits in 10th with 114. His tallies also moved him up into a tie for seventh all-time in goals (48).
Brandon Massie holds the top spot in both categories, but Sindle now trails just the Virginia Wesleyan forward in both statistics among players who played this century, with the majority of the players on the lists participating in the higher scoring era of the ODAC's history.
Sindle trails Massie by nine goals for the all-time record with a minimum of five games left to play, as Randolph assured themselves a game on Nov. 2 as part of the ODAC quarterfinals with the win.
Randolph has made the playoffs each year since joining the ODAC.
Senior Carter Smith (Greensboro, N.C./Grimsley) was not nearly as busy as he was Randolph's last time out, but the goalkeeper still stopped all four shots headed his way for the team's first clean sheet since Sep. 25.
"Today's performance wasn't really up to the standard we expect of ourselves," head coach Bryan Waggoner said after the game. "The first half especially was a half where we got a lot of lessons we still needed to learn. With that said, we picked up the three points and at this point in the season, that's really the priority. Our hats off to Emory & Henry. They came out and worked tremendously hard."