FILIPPONE PK SPARKS NJCU TO 1-0 WIN IN 2013 OPENER
STATEN ISLAND, NY (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Junior midfielder AMANDA FILIPPONE(Kenilworth, NJ/David Brearley) put away a 33rd minute penalty kick and two-time All-Conference junior goalkeeper BRITTANY HOFFMAN (McMurray, PA/Peters Township) and sophomore transfer CASSIE LUBONSKI (Edison, NJ/Edison) combined to shutout City College of New York asNew Jersey City University opened its 21st season of women's soccer with a 1-0 victory in the CSI Soccer Fall Classic on August 30 at the CSI Soccer Complex.
In only the second game ever played in the month of August in program history, NJCU (1-0), playing its earliest game ever on the calendar, made first-year head coach Mike Vivino a winner in his collegiate coaching debut.
The game with CCNY (0-1), the 2012 CUNYAC conference champions (16-5), marked the second consecutive season NJCU has played an NCAA Tournament qualifier from the previous year in the first game of a season.
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