SEVEN SCORE AS NJCU ROUTS STATEN ISLAND, 8-1, FOR FIRST WIN
STATEN ISLAND, NY (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | After not scoring in its 2013 opener on August 31, the New Jersey City University men's soccer team's offense awoke with a fury in game two. Seven different Gothic Knights scored, including three goals in a span of 2:14 midway through the first half to seize a 4-0 lead, en route to an 8-1 rout of hosts The College of Staten Island on September 1 in the final game of the CSI Soccer Fall Classic at the CSI Soccer Complex.
NJCU (1-1) scored on eight of its 17 shots (.471) to knock off Staten Island (0-2) in a match-up of two schools that each reached the 2012 ECAC Metro Division III semifinals.
Sophomore midfielder/forward ABOUBACAR DIAWARA (Bayonne, NJ/Bayonne) scored the first two goals of the game in the 13th and 21st minutes. Junior midfielder/forward MANNY MARTIS (Union, NJ/Union) and junior midfielder/forward MARCO AVELLA (Union, NJ/Union) each tallied a goal and an assist while junior midfielder ANDREW LOPES (Union, NJ/Union) and junior transfer forwardBRYAN PINO (Greenwich, CT/Greenwich) each contributed two assists; Pino's were his first two as a member of the program.
Also scoring for the Knights were junior midfielder/defender MOHAMED CONTEH (Trenton, NJ/West Windsor-Plainsboro North), junior defender EDWIN UMANZOR (Linden, NJ/Linden), junior midfielder/defender ANDREW CARVALHOSO (Linden, NJ/Linden) and rookie midfielder/forward JUSTIN APONTE (Harrison, NJ/Harrison).
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