POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — Box Score
The men’s soccer team traveled across the river this afternoon to face Vassar in their final game of the season and dropped a 3-2 decision.
Last season, Vassar and New Paltz combined to score nine goals, and Wednesday’s game looked like it would follow a similiar path. Four goals were scored in the first 15 minutes, but only one was tallied in the final 60 minutes.
New Paltz opened the scoring on an unassisted goal from senior Justin Thomson (Babylon) who perfectly placed his shot into the upper left panel of the Vassar goal. It came off an initial shot by Nick Lamon (Hewlett) that rebounded back to Thomson, who had tim eto gather the ball and execute the score.
Vassar’s Ben Scaglione answered 6:20 later, at 17:38. New Paltz goalie Peter Carmel (Lake Ronkonkoma/Stony Brook) has his clearing release intercepted by Daniel Griffith who fed the ball to a Scaglione on the left side. Scaglione deposited the ball into the left corner for a 1-1 game. Vassar’s Ben Fox made the score 2-1 on a header of a corner kick. Alex Freund notched Vassar’s third goal 21 seconds later on a strike from 30 yards out.
New Palyz made the game interesting just 36 seconds into the second half when Lamon scored his first goal of the season off a set of crossing balls from Thomson and Allan Bronstein (Newburgh, NY/Newburgh) to close the gap at 3-2.
From that point, the game became a hard-fought battle of defenses and some close scoring opportunities, but neither team could capitalize. Carmel made 12 saves for New Paltz, eight in the second half, against 30 Vassar shots. The Hawks finish the year 3-12-2 overall.
