Junior Brandon McFarlane made six saves tonight at Franklin Pierce. |
Franklin Pierce Tops Stonehill, 3-0
Ravens net three second half goals to claim victory
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.
