Men's Soccer Wins Third Straight on Back of Sabadoz
WEST HAVEN, CT – Capping a three-game win-streak, the
Merrimack men's soccer team (7-4-1, 5-2 NE-10) snuck past the
last place Chargers of New Haven, 2-1 on Friday afternoon in West
Haven, Connecticut.
“We really should have put the game away earlier, but you
have to give New Haven credit because they played us very
tough,” Head Coach Tony Martone said of the
team's third win in as many games. “We were able to get
behind their defense, but could not finish a few breakaways that
hurt us in the scoring department.”
Entering the week as the No. 4 goal-scorer in the country,
sophomore Robbie Sabadoz (Ottawa, ON) scored both
goals in Merrimack's seventh win of 2009. Distancing himself
from the Northeast-10 Conference pack, Sabadoz is currently scoring
at a clip (1.55 goals per game) near double the rate of his closest
counterparts.
Junior midfielder Dominic Doenges (Mendon, VT)
tallied his first point on the season with an assist to Sabadoz in
the 33rd minute of play.
During the current win streak, junior Kevin Joyce
(Mansfield, MA) has manned the net to record three
straight winning decisions. On Friday, Joyce stopped a single shot
on seven total Charger-shots.
Merrimack takes the field next on Wednesday, October 14 in
Worcester against the Greyhounds of Assumption College at 7:00pm.
