Box Score NEWBURGH, NY – Rutgers University-Newark ran its win streak to five with a 2-1 non-conference win over Mount Saint Mary on Kaplan Field.
Sophomore forward
Charlie O'Connell redirected a free kick from senior forward
Nick Bucciero to lift the Scarlet Raiders (6-2-0) from a 1-1 deadlock in the 70th minute.
Rutgers-Newark worked for a 19-9 edge in shots, but the match went down to the wire.
The Raiders controlled play in the early going, forcing the Valiants to block two shots while attempting five shots over the first 17 minutes. Mount St. Mary took two corners, but no shots, before Araujo dribbled down the left wing and beat the keeper inside the box in the 24th minute for his eighth goal of the season.
Junior goalkeeper
Matt Broomall needed just two saves to pick up the win, including one with 1:45 left in the match off the foot of sophomore midfielder Brett Fucheck. Broomall (4-2-0) stopped a header by freshman forward Eric Hayes in the 33rd minute to turn away Mount St. Mary's best chance to score in the opening period.
Raider defenders
Pat Holliday,
Paul Tarnawski and
Jaspal Singh helped defuse the Knights' attack and offset a 6-5 deficit in corner kicks.
The Knights (3-2-1) pulled even in the 53rd minute when forward Sean Barton put away a corner kick into the box from sophomore midfielder Mike Zanfardino. After Mount St. Mary freshman midfielder Conor Cassidy got off a shot
that was blocked in the 58th minute, the Raiders seized the momentum once again.
Rutgers-Newark assaulted junior goalkeeper Austin Peluso with a flurry of four shots over the next three minutes, but the Raiders did not score as Peluso saved shots by senior midfielder
Diego Moraes and Araujo to keep the match level. Finally, Bucciero sent the free kick into the box where O'Connell deflected it for his fourth goal of the year. Peluso posted five of his six saves in the second period.
Rutgers-Newark hosts Manhattanville College on Wednesday night at 7:30 on Alumni Field before entering play in the rugged New Jersey Athletic Conference at The College of New Jersey on Friday night.
