goal in the last 35 games, as #23 ranked NJCU (8-3, 3-2 NJAC) went 1-1 last week. Rosenthal has been selected as the NJCU Men's Student-Athlete of the Week for the eighth time in his career and the second consecutive week.
He averaged 1.50 goals and 3.00 points per game and now has five goals and two assists for 12 points in seven games this season.
Rosenthal eclipsed the record of 37 career goals he had shared with NJCU Hall-of-Famer Ken Holzschuh (1968-71). Rosenthal, who was fourth nationally with 25 goals in 2004, now has 39 goals and counting in only three seasons at NJCU.
In NJCU’s 5-1 road rout of Rutgers University-Newark on October 1, he scored twice. Rosenthal broke the record at 26:25 of the first half with a penalty kick, for his fourth goal of the year, as NJCU led 1-0 at the half. He later added a second half goal on a header at 77:40, giving NJCU a 4-1 margin.
In NJCU’s 2-1 loss to Montclair State on September 28, it was Rosenthal who netted the game-tying goal at 29:15, first gathering a cross, before lobbing a shot over the MSU keeper. That tally broke a tie for the career scoring record of 86, originally achieved just months ago, by Adrian Ruiz (Fairview, NJ/Dickinson), from 2001-04
Rosenthal currently leads the NJAC in shots per game (3.43), is fourth in points per game (1.71) and goals per game (0.71), and 10
