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After the Mercy College and Queens College women's soccer
teams combined to score five goals in the opening salvo of the
doubleheader from the Knights Soccer Field on Saturday, the male
counterparts played through a game that saw several scoring
chances, but just one goal, in the Knights' 1-0 blanking of
the Mavericks.
Both sides played physically early on and as a result, Queens
pushed the ball into the Mercy end. In the 13th
minute, Glen Reid (Falkirk, Scotland/British School of Houston)
played a through ball that was just too long for Paul Sandoval
(Mineola, N.Y./Mineola) to finish.
Mercy tried to grab the lead in the 38th minute by
playing the ball up the flank of the Queens defense. Daniel
Iamiceli flicked a shot at goal that was parried by Sean Geoghegan
(Kildare, Ireland/Naas CBS) back to the feet of Iamiceli, who then
let loose a second shot that beat Geoghegan but was deflected to
safety by Grant Edick (Clearwater, Fla./Countryside), who slide
across the goal line to make the save.
The game went into the half scoreless, despite both sides having
ample opportunities to put the ball in the net.
The second stanza saw Queens get a great scoring chance just
past the hour mark as Danny Stoker (London, England/RSSKL) put a
ball on goal that Mercy goalie Nick Papas flicked over the crossbar
to keep the game scoreless.
A short time later, in nearly an identical situation, Tyler
Iocco (New Hyde Park, N.Y. /New Hyde Park) placed another ball on
net that was once again tipped over the bar by Papas.
The offensive onslaught from Queens would finally be rewarded in
the 69th minute as Sardar Karabay (Flushing,
N.Y./Edison) played a through-ball into the box that found Edick,
who then beat Papas to the near side for the goal.
Mercy had several chances at the equalizer, with a prime
opportunity coming in the 69th minute as Ransmond
Aboagye played the ball into the box where William Koki blasted a
pair of shots in succession towards the goal, but both were turned
aside as Geoghegan.
Geoghegan would record a game-high seven saves in the shutout,
but none was bigger than the one he collected in the
75th minute as Luis Perez took a penalty kick that
Geoghegan knocked to safety to keep the clean sheet intact.
He made one later save as Queens held on for the 1-0 win.
Geoghegan collected seven saves for the third time in 2012,
while the Knights handed the Mavericks just their second loss of
the season.
The men's soccer team returns to action on Wednesday,
October 3, when they face Molloy College in the second game of a
doubleheader from Rockville Centre, New York. The game begins
at 7:30 PM.
