PARK’S PLACE!!!! SHELDON PARKINSON STOPS FOUR SHOTS IN SHOOTOUT AS NJCU ADVANCES TO ECAC SEMIFINALS
NEWARK, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Junior goalkeeper SHELDON PARKINSON (New Rochelle, NY/Herbert H. Lehman (Bronx, NY) only made one save in regulation or overtime, but his performance in a penalty kick shootout was nothing short of sensational. Parkinson stopped four of Brooklyn College's seven penalty kicks, and freshman center midfielder ALEC METSCH (East Brunswick, NJ/East Brunswick) cashed in his opportunity in the seventh round of PKs as the New Jersey City University men's soccer team advanced to the semifinals of the 2012 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Metro Tournament, edging Brooklyn, 4-3 in seven shootout rounds following a 3-3 double overtime tie on November 9.
The neutral field contest was played under the lights at Rutgers-Newark's Alumni Field after a Nor'Easter postponed the ECAC Quarterfinal game between the #3 seeded Gothic Knights (11-9-1) and 6th seeded Bulldogs (13-5-3) on Wednesday and Thursday. After a 9:15 p.m. start, the game did not end until 12:02 a.m. on a cold night in Newark.
In the shootout, NJCU had four chances to end it, but missed three consecutive opportunities in the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds before Metsch buried the winner to set off a wild celebration.
NJCU, playing in its first post-season game in four seasons since also reaching the ECAC Semifinals in 2008, will have just 15 hours to recover before facing #2 seeded Richard Stockton College in the semifinals on Saturday, November 10, at 3:30 p.m. The game will be played at Gaelic Park, the home field for the Manhattan Jaspers, in Riverdale, NY and will be hosted by New York University. Stockton (11-7-2) defeated #7 Mount Saint Mary, 5-2, on Thursday.
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