New Jersey City University Athletics

Box Score 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 13^th and 21^st 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 forward BRYAN 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).
 
Junior transfer forward ANDY CABAN (Red Bank, NJ/Red Bank Regional) and freshman midfielder CHRISTIAN MERINO (West New York, NJ/Memorial) each chipped in an assist.
 
Junior goalkeeper RUBEN MORALES (Princeton, NJ/Princeton), in his first game in net for NJCU, made four saves. NJCU outshot CSI, 17-10. CSI keeper Antonio Lynch had four stops.
 
"The guys figured out what we've known, but they just needed to be able to see—that we can score goals from a lot of different guys," said second-year head coach Patrick Snyder. "We're confident in what we are able to do but we had to see it to prove it. Scoring three goals [in the first half] in that amount of time from three guys was huge."
 
"We would have liked to see us keep a clean sheet but we're satisfied [with the win]. "We are focused on being stronger defensively than we were last year. We know we have the talent to score."
 
Diawara, who scored four goals as a rookie in 2012, gave NJCU its first tally of the season at the 12:39 mark, netting a sliding  shot off a Martis into the box.
 
Then, NJCU put the game away with the 11^th fastest three consecutive goals in recorded NCAA Division III history. Diawara pocketed his second goal at the 20:44 mark, slipping a shot into the net off a feed from Lopes. Just 33 seconds later (21:17), Conteh, who started the game as a holding midfielder, rather than his typical stopper/sweeper role, received a pass from Avella and put away a shot after a scramble in the box. At 22:58, Umanzor notched his first career goal and points at the 22:58 mark when he scored on a fast break off a pass from Caban. NJCU led 4-0 at the half.
 
NJCU needed less than seven minutes in the second half to make it 6-0. At the 50:21 mark, Martis scored his fifth career goal, putting away a tipped pass from Pino. Just 1:31 later, Lopes crossed his 12^th career assist into the box to Avella, who turned, dribbled and buried a marker at 51:52.
 
After CSI thwarted a shutout bid less than a minute when Marcin Kim scored on an assist from Thomas Vazquez (52:50), Carvalhoso netted NJCU's seventh goal at the 66:41 mark in a one-on-one.
 
Aponte, who was tied for 13^th in the state last year as a high school senior with 26 goals, tallied the first of his collegiate career at the 85:33 mark. A long breakaway pass by Merino to Pino set up a short cross to Aponte for the eighth goal.
 
NJCU will play the first of eight home games on Wednesday, September 4 when it hosts City College of New York at 4 p.m. at the Robert L. McNulty Memorial Soccer Field.