Franklin Pierce Men Rout Saint Rose

Ravens Put 5 Past NE-10 Rival

Oct. 11, 2009

The Franklin Pierce University men’s soccer team ran their unbeaten streak to five straight games (4-0-1) Saturday night with a 5-0 win over Saint Rose at Sodexo Field in Rindge, N.H.

The Ravens improved to 9-3-2 overall and 7-2-1 in the Northeast-10 Conference. The Golden Knights dipped to 2-10-1 overall and 1-7-1 in the league.

Graduate back Kevin Neumen, sophomore midfielder Victor Goncalves, freshman midfielder Tyler Rosa (Rehoboth, Mass.), freshman forward Collins Appau (Worcester, Mass.) and graduate midfielder Frantz Francois each scored a goal to pace the Ravens in the win.

Sophomore goalkeeper Vinny Papageorgiou (Wilmington, Mass.) needed to make just two saves to earn the shutout victory and raise his record to 7-2-1 on the year.

Neumen put Franklin Pierce on top, 1-0, in the eighth minute when he collected a rebound in front of the net and blasted it past the Saint Rose goalkeeper for his second goal of the season. The rebound that Neumen scored off of came from a shot from Appau.

The Ravens held a 1-0 lead late in the contest, but then the floodgates opened as they scored four more goals in the waning minutes to give them a season-high for goals in a match. Goncalves made it 2-0 Franklin Pierce in the 67th minute when he collected the ball between the circles, dribbled around the defense to the right corner, and chipped in a shot for his fifth goal of the season.

Rosa notched his goal in the 85th minute as he scored off a rebound that had slammed off the post. It marked the first collegiate goal of his career.

Appau scored his goal in the 89th minute as he took a pass from Francois at the top of the box and slid it by the goalkeeper for his second tally of the season.

Francois then made it a three-point night for him with his goal in the 90th minute. That goal was his team-leading seventh of the season and capped the late flurry of scores for the Ravens.