Box Score Rangers Cruise Past Gothic Knights in Opener
MADISON, N.J. (September 3, 2011) – Men's soccer got off on the right foot this evening as they scored seven times in a, 7-2 rout of New Jersey City University. The Rangers will take on Curry College tomorrow afternoon, eyeing their second-straight Fall Fest title.
The seven goals by the Ranger offense was the most since the 2008 season when the Rangers put up eight goals on York College (N.Y.). The balanced attack wasted no time as last year's leading goal-getter, Matthew Gragnano (Hazlet, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) tapped in a beautiful cross by sophomore RJ Voorman (Wycoff, N.J./Ramapo) to open up the scoring. Just 1:59 later Kevin Walpole (Newark Del./The Sanford School) put home a centering pass from freshman Ricardo Castro (Mexicali, Mexico/Vincent Memorial) to put the Rangers up 2-0.
Drew (1-0) found the back of the net twice more before the halftime horn when Mike Jacques (Princeton Junction, N.J./West Windsor Plainsboro-North) found Will Sanchez (Bound Brook, N.J./Bound Brook) at the top of the box for the third goal of the game and freshman Michael Pezzuti (Fairfield, N.J./West Essex Regional) cashed in on his first career goal at the 30 minute mark.
After the Rangers went up 5-0 on a Kevin Veliz (Plainfield, N.J./Plainfield) unassisted goal, NJCU (0-1) got back-to-back goals from Alex Ceron and Diego Portillo to narrow the gap to three. The Rangers squashed all notions of a comeback when Tommy Tolve (Nutley, N.J./Nutley) notched his first career goal and Craig Wagenblast (Toms River, N.J./Toms River East) added the final goal in the 80th minute.
Junior Rich Boland (North Kingstown, R.I./Moses Brown) made his first career start in net for the Rangers and made seven saves.
Earlier in the day, Curry College(2-0) defeated Medgar Evers(0-1), 5-1 to setup a Sunday matchup with the Rangers for the Fall Fest Championship. The Colonels scored four unanswered goals including an own goal to open up a 4-0 advantage. Joshua Lombard, Nicholas Lawless, Samuel Babchuck and Brandon Martins all scored for the Colonels. Devin Sadlers assisted on two of the five Curry goals.
The Rangers and Colonels will square off at 4:00 in Ranger Stadium.
