Box Score

GALLOWAY, NJ – Rutgers-Newark downed Richard Stockton, 3-1, in G. Larry James Stadium to earn a home match in the opening round of the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship playoffs.

The Scarlet Raiders (15-4-1, NJAC 6-2-1) set new program highs for wins in a season overall and in NJAC play while the Ospreys (12-5-2, NJAC 6-3-0) slipped below Rutgers-Newark and The College of New Jersey (11-5-2, NJAC 6-2-1) in the final regular-season standings on the final day of play.

2013 NJAC Championship Tournament Bracket

Third-seeded Rutgers-Newark will host sixth-seeded William Paterson (8-7-2, NJAC 3-5-1) at 7:30 on Saturday night on Alumni Field while TCNJ will host Stockton at 11 a.m. in Ewing in opening round action. Top-seeded Rutgers-Camden (17-0-2, NJAC 7-0-2) and No. 2 Montclair State (15-2-2, NJAC 6-1-2) will enjoy opening round byes before hosting semifinal matches on November 6.

Freshmen Anthony DeRisi and Hubert Dul combined on the first two tallies to give the Raiders all the scoring that they would need despite playing without record-setting junior forward Raphael Araujo. Araujo sat out the match with a leg injury, but he is expected to be back in the lineup on Saturday.

Dul tapped in a crossing pass from DeRisi to break the ice just 6:08 into the fray before DeRisi put away a cross from Dul in the 31st minute. DeRisi extended his string of consecutive matches with an assist to 11 and upped his R-N single season record for assists to 15. It was DeRisi's second game-winning goal.

Just 34 seconds after DeRisi's goal, sophomore midfielder Bonny Londono hammered in a shot from 45 yards out to stun the Ospreys and boost the lead to three.

Stockton senior midfielder Chris Katona put away a throw-in by sophomore back Joe Stapleton in the 53rd minute, but that was the only shot that got past sophomore goalkeeper Matt Broomall.

Broomall (15-4-1) made seven saves to spell the difference in the contest as Stockton put three more shots on goal than the Raiders. Osprey goalkeepers Bob Millar and Bobby Varga combined to stop just three shots.

Each team took 18 shots but Stockton constructed a 9-4 edge in corner kicks. Raider defenders Jason Chung, Robi Rosario, Pat Holliday and Paul Tarnawski helped defuse the Osprey attack.

Rutgers-Newark returns to the NJAC's 6-team playoff for the third year in a row and for the fourth time in the past five seasons. It will mark the fourth time that the Raiders have hosted an opening round match. They are 2-1 in those contests with the opening-round loss coming against William Paterson, 2-1 in overtime, in 2011.

The Raiders' 15 victories are one more than the team posted last season when Rutgers-Newark posted a record of 14-8-1. The six NJAC wins come on the heels of a 5-4-0 mark in 2012.