New Jersey City University Athletics

Box Score NEWARK, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Rutgers-Newark scored two goals in a span of 31 seconds in the seventh minute and led 4-0 at the break before ultimately handing New Jersey City University a 7-0 men's soccer setback in a New Jersey Athletic Conference meeting under the lights on October 16 at Alumni Field.
 
NJCU (6-7-1, 2-4-0 NJAC) couldn't get much going in the way of offensive chances all night as the Scarlet Raiders (12-3-1, 3-2-1 NJAC) outshot NJCU, 19-6, including a 12-2 margin in shots on goal.
 
It was the second time this season the Gothic Knights have given up seven goals in a shutout conference road loss (7-0, at Richard Stockton College, October 5) and NJCU has been outscored 20-2 in its last three NJAC games.
 
NJCU failed to reach double figures in shots in a game for the first time since October 15, 2012 and its six shots were the fewest since mustering just six in a loss at William Paterson University on September 17, 2011.
 
R-N, which won the fifth straight meeting between the schools, was paced by the play of junior forward Patryk Dawidczyk (Bayonne, NJ/Bayonne) who amassed his first career hat trick, scoring the second, fourth and sixth goals—his seventh, eighth and ninth tallies of the season.
 
Junior forward RAPHAEL ARAUJO (North Plainfield, NJ/North Plainfield), who scored an NJCU season-high 14 goals in 10 games in 2012 while playing for the Gothic Knights, netted his NCAA Division III leading 19^th goal—a new Rutgers-Newark single-season record—for the first goal of the game in what proved to be the game-winner against his former club.
 
Freshman midfielder Hubert Dul (Wallington, NJ/Wallington) added a goal and an assist and junior forward Nick Bucciero (Howell, NJ/Freehold Township) scored once while freshman midfielder Anthony DeRisi (Allentown, NJ/Allentown) contributed two assists. R-N also had an own goal in the 90^th minute.
 
R-N sophomore keeper Matt Broomall (Somers Point, NJ/Mainland Regional) made two saves to back up a Raider defense that notched its fifth shutout of the season. NJCU junior RUBEN MORALES (Princeton, NJ/Princeton) made two saves against six goals in 63:10 while rookie NICK NARDONE (North Arlington, NJ/Queen of Peace) made three saves, including a pair of breakaways, in 26:50 of reserve time.
 
R-N scored on its first two shots of the game and three of the first four. Just 6:01 into the action, Araujo received a pass from midfield, spun past a defender, dribbled into the box and ripped a shot past a diving Morales, inside the left post. Just 31 seconds later R-N struck again as DeRisi played a ball down the right wing to Dul who dished a cross into the box for a one-timer by an unmarked Dawidczyk past Morales, who had little chance to stop the first two goals.
 
R-N extended the lead to 3-0 in the 23^rd minute. Morales sprinted out to try to grab a long ball played down field but stumbled on the turf. Dul tracked down the loose ball and knocked it into the empty right side of the net for his fourth goal of the season at 22:40. R-N extended it to 4-0 in the 31^st minute as Dawidczyk one-timed a shot inside the right post on a beautiful ball played across the top of the box from the left wing by DeRisi at 30:51.
 
Any hope NJCU had of rallying in the final 45 minutes was dashed just 47 seconds into the second half, as R-N extended the lead to 5-0. Bucciero received a pass, raced a defender down the left wing, side-stepped a lunging Morales and on a difficult angle from the left endline, laced a shot into an unguarded net.
 
In the 58^th minute, Dawidczyk had a diving header wide open inside the six set aside when Morales made a sprawling save towards the near left post.
 
But Dawidczyk would finish his hat trick two minutes later. At 60:25, a loose ball caromed across the box, and Dawidczyk headed a shot into the upper right side. R-N added a seventh goal with 53 seconds left when a ball played across the goalmouth from the left endline was inadvertently knocked into the NJCU net by a sliding defender attempting to clear the ball.
 
NJCU will attempt to keep alive its dwindling NJAC Tournament hopes on Saturday, October 19 at 2 p.m. when it hosts No. 8 ranked Montclair State University at the Robert L. McNulty Memorial Soccer Field.