KOFI KUSI, ARAUJO COMBINE FOR FIVE TALLIES AS NJCU CRUSHES BENEDICTINE, 6-2; PAT SNYDER EARNS FIRST WIN AS HEAD COACH
STATEN ISLAND, NY (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Senior midfielder NANA KOFI KUSI (Newark, NJ/Kumasi Academy (Ghana) chalked up his second career hat trick and third multi-goal game and sophomore forward RAPHAEL ARAUJO (North Plainfield, NJ/North Plainfield) tacked on a pair of goals as New Jersey City University crushed Benedictine University (Ill.), 6-2, in the final round of the CSI Soccer Fall Classic at the College of Staten Island on Saturday afternoon.
NJCU (1-1) bounced back from a 2-1 loss to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in yesterday's season opener and made first-year head coach Patrick Snyder a winner for the first time at the helm of the Gothic Knights. Benedictine (0-2) had also lost 2-0 to host Staten Island on Friday. It was the first-ever meeting between the schools and NJCU's first-ever match against current members of the Northern Athletics Conference. NJCU outshot the Eagles, 24-10.
Kofi Kusi, who scored only three goals in 15 games last season after netting nine as an All-Conference selection in his first year with NJCU in 2010, matched his 2011 season totals in one afternoon by scoring the first, third and fifth goals for the Knights.
