Men’s College Soccer Week Wrap: Palmer nets second hat trick; Tinaj and Decker earn Empire 8 POTW honors

FRIDAY

HOBART (0-4-2) 1
RIT (2-4-0) 2
Da’Vid Robinson netted the game winner with 12 minutes remaining to hand RIT a second straight victory. Daniel Gebura tied the match before halftime after trailing most of the first half. Idriss Diallo and David Brassie (Honeoye Falls-Lima) both earned assists. Jason Trapp made two saves in net for the Tigers.

HARCUM COLLEGE (6-0-1) 3
MONROE CC (7-2-0) 1
Ollie Weir knotted the game at one with his sixth of the season straight out of halftime. MCC’s efforts were stifled by four red cards in the final 18 minutes which resulted in two unanswered goals. Matthew Rossi made three saves in net for MCC.
SATURDAY

SUNY BROCKPORT (2-4-1) 3
KEUKA COLLEGE (0-5-0) 1
Peter Tinaj buried two goals on six shots to snap Brockport’s losing skid at four games. Senior Russ Domm (East Rochester) tallied his third of the year to open scoring in the first half. Alex Rivara picked up the assist on Tinaj’s first goal. Andrew Taylor made one save in net for the Golden Eagles. Brockport outshot Keuka 24-6.

ST. JOHN FISHER (2-2-3) 0
SUNY GENESEO (2-1-3) 0
Geneseo outshot Fisher 8-3 and managed two on net to Fisher’s zero. Christian Burkhart (Brighton) made two saves for St. John Fisher. Senior Vasion Sinjari was responsible for both shots.

CLARKSON UNIVERSITY (4-0-3) 1
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (4-1-2) 1
Johnny Makula’s team-leading fourth goal accounted for Rochester’s lone tally. Nick Swanger and Benjamin Kaufman both assisted on the play. Clarkson’s Jay Jezioro registered his first of the season from 25+ yards out, five minutes into the match. Santino Lupica-Tondo made one save for Rochester. The Yellow Jackets outshot Clarkson 21-2.

HARTWICK (2-4-1) 0
NAZARETH UNIVERSITY (4-1-1) 5
Spencer Neil and Jake Pawlika split four tallies in the second half to charge Nazareth’s offense in a 5-0 victory. Neil got Nazareth on the board three minutes after halftime with his team-leading seventh of the season. He added his eighth less than 10 minutes later. Pawlika registered both of his tallies in a seven-minute-span to push the score to four. Drew Decker added his third of the season on touches from Braden Callahan and Neil. Ryan Fitzgerald (Greece Athena), Sam Romanosky, Iskander Kosoko, Michael Yates and Decker all finished with an assist. Logan Menna made three saves over 61 minutes of work. Liam Brandt finished the match, adding two saves. Hartwick outshot Nazareth 7-2 in the first half. Naz flipped the script taking 10 to Hartwick’s two in the second.

QUEENS COLLEGE (2-4-0) 4
ROBERTS WESLEYAN (1-3-1) 1
Tamas Nagy tied the game at one on a penalty kick just before halftime. Wesleyan allowed three unanswered in the second half to fall to Queens. Caleb DaSilva made six saves over 70 minutes of work. Juan Daniel Espinosa Rubio completed the final 20 only needing to make one save for the Redhawks.

SUNDAY

SUNY BROOME CC (0-7-0) 0
GENESEE CC (4-3-0) 13
Four players registered multiple goals while eight total found the back of the net for Genesee’s second straight 13-0 victory. Malik Watson doubled his season goal-total with a hat trick followed by two assists. Jan Bimmler registered two goals, pushing his team lead to eight, and finished with three assists. Casper Jaartsveld and Kyrell Kavanagh both registered two assists as well. Consti Zielke, Eduardo Leiva, Felipe Bueno and Ethan Hemmings all found the back of the net once. Zielke and Leiva added two assists while Hemmings and Kavanagh each had one. Genesee has scored 34 goals over their last three games for a total of 38 on the season.

SUNY NIAGARA CC (0-4-0) 0
FINGER LAKES CC (5-3-3) 11
Ben Domann’s hat trick fronted an offense that featured nine different goal scorers with in FLCC’s first win in three games. Joao Antonio Rocha netted his sixth of the year and added two assists. Oriol Guzman, Joao Pedro Melo De Oliveria, Allan Matheus, Austin Wolfe, Juan Mercado Cano, Matt Sanderson and Carl Pontin all scored in the victory. Gary Cooper picked up two assists while Joao Viana, Sergio Baron, Carlos Aguiar, Sanderson and Guzman all added one apiece.

MONDAY
*NO GAMES*

TUESDAY

SUNY GENESEO (2-2-3) 1
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (5-1-2) 3
Rochester registered three consecutive goals from three different goal scorers to fend off Geneseo. Kamal Ibrahim scored the only goal in the first half on a feed from Daniel Steinacher. Milos Bisenic and Alessio Cristanetti-Walker doubled the lead and added insurance with 27 minutes remaining. Joe Vogt (Penfield) scrapped Rochester’s clean sheet in the 88^th minute, heading in a corner kick from Evan Lodie. Jermeiah Anandarajah and Ryan Szymczyk both added an assist for the Yellow Jackets.

WEDNESDAY

NAZARETH UNIVERSITY (4-1-2) 1
ALFRED UNIVERSITY (3-5-1) 1
Ryan Fitzgerald (Greece Athena) tied the game in the 80^th minute on an assist from Drew Decker. Justin Eaton (Williamson) scored Alfred University’s only goal of the match. Logan Menna and Liam Brandt split time in net for Nazareth, combining for zero saves.

ROBERTS WESLEYAN (2-3-1) 4
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY (2-2-1) 0
Myles Palmer (Fairport) registered his second hat trick in three games to drive Roberts Wesleyan to its first win in five games. Palmer opened scoring in the sixth minute and Tamas Nagy doubled the score on a feed from Luke Hanes. Nagy also picked up an assist on Palmer’s third tally in the 65^th minute. Palmer is third (7) and Nagy is fourth (6) in scoring in the East Coast Conference. Palmer has seven goals and 12 shots on net on the road compared to his one shot in three games at home.

ERIE CC (0-7-0) 0
No.18 MONROE CC (8-2-0) 5
Five different players found the back of the net to lead MCC to its eighth win of the year. Freshman Sora Kozaki improved his team-leading goal total to seven. Liam Cowie and Harvey Deakin netted their firsts of the season. Charlie Gaskin scored his second of the year on a penalty kick and Sakuya Futakuchi added his third with the lone second half tally. Erie failed to register a shot in the match.

EMPIRE 8 PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK – DREW DECKER (NAZARETH UNIVERSITY)
CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK – PETER TINAJ (SUNY BROCKPORT)