JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Nine different Gothic Knights scored including five who produced their first collegiate goals and the New Jersey City University women's soccer team outshot York College (NY) by an incredible 51-0 margin as NJCU rolled over the Cardinals, 10-0 in a non-conference women's soccer game on October 18 at the Robert L. McNulty Memorial Soccer Field.
 
NJCU (6-6-1) outshot the Cardinals (4-10-0), 36-0 in the first half and led 6-0 after 45 minutes. With York short-handed, the second half was trimmed to 26 minutes and the game finished after 71 minutes.
 
The 10 goals mark the seventh time NJCU has scored 10 or more goals in a game and the first time since the 2014 season. It was also the seventh time in school history the Knights have amassed at least 50 shots in a game.
 
Freshman midfielder/forward Mallensy Vargas (North Bergen, N.J./Memorial) was the lone Gothic Knight to score twice, scoring her 11th and 12th goals of the season—including the game winner just 1:04 into the action and another at the 13:16 mark before she left after 14 minutes with NJCU ahead, 3-0. She scored on two of the three shots she attempted.
 
Senior center midfielder Kaydee Murphy (Bayonne, N.J./Holy Family Academy) had never scored a goal in nearly 5,000 career minutes on the pitch for NJCU but that changed 4:09 into the game when she finally got in the scoring column. She also assisted on the third and fifth goals before exiting after just 48 total minutes in the game, finishing with four points.
 

Meanwhile, senior center back Jubeth Buitrago (Secaucus, N.J./Secaucus), who rarely ever pushes up the field, had just two shots attempted in the first 47 games of her career. Buitrago had the chance to get offensive for one day and did so in impressive fashion, unleashing 12 shots—eight on goal—putting away her first career goal in the 37th minute.  
 
Freshman forward Sylwia Lubczenko (Bayonne, N.J./Bayonne) tallied her first career goal in the 19th minute before freshman forward Eniyah Thomas (Orange, N.J./Benedictine Academy) notched her first marker in the 26th minute for a 5-0 lead.
 
Sophomore forward Katherin Merino (Harrison, N.J./Harrison) buried her third goal of the season in the 53rd minute before freshman forward Joelle Paris (Bayonne, N.J./County Prep), who had 10 shots (six on goal), tallied her second career goal in the 62nd minute.
 
Freshman forward Liliana Ventura (West New York, N.J./Memorial) finished with three points, assisting on the eighth goal before scoring just 59 seconds later in the 63rd minute for her fourth goal of the season. Freshman midfielder T'ana Salinas (Joint Base MDL, N.J./Northern Burlington Regional) capped the scoring four minutes later with her first collegiate strike in the 67th minute.
 
Junior midfielder Madison Castellanos (Morristown, NJ/Morristown) assisted on the game-winner. Junior back Catarina Teodosio (Newark, NJ/East Side) and freshman midfielder Maria Calle (Elizabeth, N.J./Hamilton Prep Academy) each contributed single assists. In all, 19 women played for NJCU and 13 had a shot attempt.
 
Junior goalkeeper Paula Viana (Elizabeth, N.J./Hamilton Prep Academy) was never challenged and she and junior back Claudia Gomez (Union City, NJ/Union City) were the only players to see a full 71 minutes on defense as NJCU registered its fourth shutout of the season.
 
York senior goalkeeper Sarah Hilaire (Port-au-Prince, Haiti) prevented the scoring from potentially being much higher as she made 23 saves including 20 in the first half—among the single-game highest save totals in NCAA Division III this season.
 
OF NOTE:

• Series: Third meeting. NJCU leads all-time series, 3-0 (24-0 goal differential). First meeting since September 29, 2012 in Maspeth, N.Y.
• Most goals in a game in school history:
  • 13, Medgar Evers College, 9/8/2014
  • 13, City College of NY, 10/13/2003
  • 11, Maritime College, 9/16/2008
  • 11, College of Staten Island, 10/21/2009
  • 10, York College, 10/18/2016
  • 10, vs Medgar Evers College, 9/06/2008
  • 10, City College of NY, 10/11/2009
• Most shots in a game in school history:
  • 68, Medgar Evers College, 9/08/2014
  • 61, College of Staten Island, 10/21/2009
  • 57, City College of NY, 9/08/2009
  • 53, John Jay College, 10/04/2011
  • 51, York College, 10/18/2016
  • 51, Medgar Evers, 9/13/2008
  • 51, Lincoln University, 11/06/2004

 
WHAT'S NEXT?
NJCU plays its final road game of the regular season on Saturday, October 22 (3 p.m.) when it faces Stockton University in a New Jersey Athletic Conference contest in Galloway, N.J. Stockton leads the all-time series, 23-0.