Fontbonne Esports Opens Season With Wins Over Cornell and Ferris State

ST. LOUIS, Mo.— The Fontbonne University Esports team is off to a strong start gathering wins over Cornell College JV and Ferris State University.

Match One

Fontbonne 2, Cornell College JV 1

Game One Notes

• Top Laner, Tristan Flier, gets a solo kill for first blood
• Cornell answers back with a kill in the midlane in a 2v2 fight
• Gank in the midlane by Mylo Counts results in a kill for Huy Van
• Fontbonne takes the first dragon of the game
• Huy Van dies in the midlane, but Fontbonne answers back by taking the second dragon
• Cornell wins a huge team fight before the third dragon. They take the dragon after an ace.
• Fontbonne fights for Baron but comes up short and Cornell wins the game

GAME 2 Notes

• Bot laners Jason Tran and Dan Trieu start the game with first blood.
• Midlaner Huy Van gets ganked in the early landing phase and dies, but bot lane again answers with a kill of their own.
• Tristan Flier turns a gank around and trades one for one with the jungler.
• Dan and Jason with another kill which transitions into the first dragon take.
• Fontbonne takes the second dragon.
• Huy Van starts goes on a killing spree after picking up kills throughout the mid game.
• Fontbonne picks up the third dragon and wins a fight moving the kill totals to 12-4.
• Fontbonne wins the Baron fight resulting in securing the baron and finishing the game in 30 minutes.

GAME 3 Notes

• Game starts well for Fontbonne in the bot lane of Jason and Dan getting first blood again.
• Fontbonne picks up solo kills in the top and mid lane as well and secure the first dragon.
• Cornell picks up the second dragon but Fontbonne wins the team fight by picking up 4 kills and pressuring turrets with the rift herald.
• Fontbonne has a massive 6 thousand gold lead at the 13:00 minute mark.
• With this gold lead the Griffins are able to continue through the game picking up baron right when it spawns.
• Using the baron buff advantage, Fontbonne takes the base and wins the series 2-1 against Cornell.

Match Two

Fontbonne def. Ferris State, 2-0

GAME 1 Notes

• Ferris State tries to invade level 1. Fontbonne comes out ahead with an outcome of 4 kills to 2 with Dan Trieu getting a double kill.
• Early gank in the mid lane results in Huy Van falling to the enemy mid laner.
• Fontbonne claims the first dragon of the game.
• Mylo Counts gets the rift herald and another kill.
• Jason Tran gets a kill on the enemy mid laner to set up Fontbonne killing the second dragon.
• The second rift herald is taken and used on the mid lane turret to move Fontbonne up 2k gold at 18 minutes.
• Third dragon is secured by Fontbonne.
• Huy Van gets a kill after dragon that helps Fontbonne to get the baron.
• Ferris State claims the fourth dragon, their first of the game.
• Fontbonne walks away with the dragon soul, quickly capture their second baron and force a team fight to finish the game.

GAME 2 Notes

• Huy Van gets first blood on the enemy mid laner, but Mylo falls right after making it a one for one trade.
• Tristian Flier and Mylo fall in a fight in the top lane, while Jason and Dan dive bot lane turret resulting in a kill and both dying. Ferris State is up five kills to two at nine minutes.
• Fontbonne claims the first dragon.
• Fontbonne trades the first herald so that they can claim the second dragon of the game.
• Ferris State claims the third dragon and a team fight follows where Fontbonne gets three kills. and claims the fourth dragon. One point away from soul.
• Fontbonne sneaks away with a Baron capture before Ferris State can react.
• Fontbonne takes the first inhibitor in the mid lane, even though they are down 4k gold at 27 minutes.
• Ferris State reacts by taking the baron and sieging mid lane.
• Fontbonne loses a team fight in their base but gets the enemy low enough to where they are not able to continue the push.
• Fontbonne gets a pick before the dragon fight which allows them to win their 4th dragon giving them soul.
• Ferris State's bot laner pushes mid to try to get the inhibitor but are unsuccessful and leads to two more kills for Fontbonne.
• Huy Van dies in a 1v1 in the bot lane but Fontbonne reacts by taking an inhibitor and baron. They escape the fight.
• Fontbonne wins the fight before Elder Dragon and takes the elder afterwards. They then take baron and commit a final push with both buffs to end the game.
• Four kills are taken by Fontbonne to finally take the nexus.

Up Next

The Griffins are back in action this Saturday against the College for Creative Studies at 3 p.m.