Franklin Pierce Tops
Stonehill, 3-0
Ravens net three second
half goals to claim victory
Boxscore
RINDGE, N.H. (October 17,
2009) - Franklin Pierce University, ranked fifth in this
week's National Soccer Coaches Association of America
(NSCAA)/adidas Division II East Regional poll, used three second
half goals to claim a 3-0 victory over Stonehill College in
Northeast-10 Conference men's soccer action at Sodexo Field
tonight.
Sophomore goalkeeper Vinny
Papageorgiou (Wilmington, Mass./Wilmington) made four
saves, including three in the second half, to preserve his sixth
shutout of the season for Franklin Pierce. Junior Brandon
McFarlane (Norwich, Conn./Norwich Free Academy) stopped
six shots in goal for Stonehill as the Ravens finished with a 14-9
advantage in shots for the contest.
Both teams squandered good scoring
chances in a scoreless first half. Stonehill's best chance came in
the 38th minute, but freshman Anthony
Campagnano's (Schenectady, N.Y./Guilderland) open header
drifted just wide of the net. The Skyhawks have been held scoreless
in their last four road matches, dating back to a pair of goals in
a 5-2 setback at American International College in their first away
match of the season.
Franklin Pierce broke through 7:55
in the second half when grad student Frantz Francois
(Saint-Marc, Haiti/Palm Beach Lakes (Fla.)) took a pass
from sophomore Victor Goncalves (Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil) and dribbled into the 18 where he slipped past
McFarlane before slotting a shot into an empty net for his
team-leading tenth goal of the season.
Franklin Pierce added an insurance
goal in the 71st minute as sophomore Diego
Tabares (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) turned and fired a shot
off McFarlane's gloves and into the top shelf for his fifth goal o
the year. The Ravens rounded out the scoring just 26-seconds from
full time when freshman Amory Houghton (Cape Elizabeth,
Maine/Cape Elizabeth) headed in a cross from senior
Sean Ahern (Somers, Conn./Somers).
Stonehill (7-6-1, 3-6-1 NE-10) is
back in action on Wednesday when it hosts Assumption College at
3:30 p.m. Franklin Pierce (11-3-2, 9-2-1 NE-10) is off until next
Saturday when it rounds out the regular season as it hosts
Assumption at 2 p.m.
