For Starters:                
NJCU plays its final home game of the 2015 season today, looking to play spoiler against TCNJ, which is still vying for an NJAC Tournament berth.
 
Thank You, Seniors:               
Today is Senior Day at NJCU for its senior class and all three team captains—four-year players Tyler Krychkowski (North Arlington, NJ/North Arlington), Nicholas O'Neill (Eatontown, NJ/Red Bank Catholic) and Christopher Segovia (North Bergen, NJ/Memorial).
 
Tyler Krychkowski
Krychkowski has truly been a unique player for NJCU. Krychkowski 4.0 has played and started a new position every season for NJCU after coming out of high school as his area's Player of the Year (2011-12 'Observer' newspaper Male Athlete of the Year for all sports and the 2011 Meadowlands Division Player of the Year; he graduated as his school's all-time leading goal producer in soccer and a 1,000-point scorer in basketball).
 
A defender as a freshman and midfielder as a sophomore, he stepped up and filled a void as a junior, becoming the team's goalkeeper despite never having previously played the position. This year he is back to his natural forward position. He is the second four-year men's soccer player at NJCU from his family, as his mother Maureen also watched son, Tom Krychkowski, play from 2008-11.
 
Among the most honored seniors in any sport at NJCU, Krychkowski was the 2014-15 winner of the Robert L. McNulty Memorial Soccer Award; he and his brother are the only family to have siblings each claim the leadership accolade since it was first introduced in 1996.
 
In the first week he ever played the position in his life, he led NJCU to a pair of ties, allowing only a penalty kick goal. On September 1, 2014 he was named the first New Jersey Athletic Conference and Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Metro Defensive Player of the Week of the 2014 season and was honored as the Disney Soccer/NSCAA Division III National Player of the Week. He was also prominently featured on NCAA.com. Two weeks later, Krychkowski was featured in the September 15 issue of Sports Illustrated. NJCU opened the season by playing in an NCAA-record five consecutive overtime games in front of its new keeper.
 
A Business Management major at NJCU, he has played in 72 games (54 starts) for NJCU and 4767 minutes with nine points (four goals, one assist) on 52 shots (20 SOG). He has 133 career saves in net.
 
Nicholas O'Neill
O'Neill, an English major with a minor in Media Arts, is the second member of his family to be a student-athlete at NJCU. His sister, Kimberly, was a four-year basketball player from 1997-2001, playing in 91 games for the Knights (367 rebounds, 208 points).
 
O'Neill has been a key reserve forward for NJCU, playing in 45 games for the Knights, including 34 in the last two years. He has logged 1,060 minutes on the pitch and contributed a goal and an assist on 15 shots.
 
After graduating, he wants to work for a non-profit organization, traveling and helping serve people who are less fortunate around the world with housing, education and economic development.
 
Christopher Segovia
Segovia has been a mainstay in the back for NJCU his entire career, playing and starting 73 of 74 total games in the last four years while logging a massive 5,814 minutes of action—the second most for any player in school history. With two more starts he will end his career second all-time in games started. He has contributed to five shutouts and has netted two goals and one assist on 34 shots (16 SOG).
 
As a freshman, Segovia was named to the Liberty Cup All-Tournament Team after helping limit FDU-Florham to just three shots in 101 minutes in that event's title game.
 
A Business Management major with a minor in Accounting, he is the first member of his family that has been able to attend college.
 
#GothicRewind—NJCU Falls to Mount Saint Vincent:
In its last action on October 17, NJCU faced Mount Saint Vincent for the first time in seven years and lost to the Dolphins for the first time ever. CMSV scored four times in the second half after leading 1-0 at the intermission.
 
Searching for Goals:
NJCU has been shutout eight times this season and outscored, 48-11, after scoring just 12 times last year (36-12 differential).
 
Scoreless at the Half:
NJCU has taken an opponent to the half scoreless six times this season. However, the Knights have lost all six of those games (9/4/2015 vs. John Jay, 9/12/15 vs. #1 Christopher Newport, 9/19/15 at NYU, 9/21/15 at Rutgers-Camden), 9/23/15 vs. #12 Montclair State and 10/7 at Stockton.
 
Weekly Award Drought:
NJCU has not claimed a weekly NJAC award-Offensive Player of the Week, Defensive Player or Rookie of the Week this season. The last time the Knights were shutout of conference weekly honors for an entire season was 2004.
 
Lion Bites:

• TCNJ, which was ranked as high as No. 18 in the country and third in the NCAA Division III South Atlantic Region on September 15 after a 5-0-1 start to the season, and 10th in the region on September 22, has cooled off somewhat since then but still is very much alive for a berth in the NJAC Tournament.
• With six points, the Lions are three points behind Rowan (9 points) for the sixth and final berth in a very competitive NJAC playoff race. TCNJ still has games with eighth place William Paterson (October 24) before a showdown with Rowan in Glassboro on October 28 that should ultimately decide who is in and who is out. Rowan still faces nationally-ranked Kean and NJCU (October 24).
• TCNJ junior forward Thomas Hogue was the NJAC Player of the Week in week two. He has three goals and five assists for 11 points this season.
• Lions' junior goalkeeper Jake Nesteruk was the NJAC Defensive Player of the Week in week one.
• Nick Costelloe is fourth in the NJAC in foals scored and seventh in total points.