Throggs Neck, NY – In men’s soccer action, the Maritime College Privateers extended their win streak to two games after taking a 4-1 victory over the Cougars of Medgar Evers College on Monday evening in Throggs Neck, NY.

 

Maritime, now 2-3-1 on the year, got on the board at 19:05 when the team’s leading scorer, freshman forward Mehmet Alkan (Turkey/Ozel Cent) headed one past the Cougar keeper off of a perfectly placed pass from senior Anuar Romero (Roselle, NJ/Roselle) (Roselle, NJ/Roselle).  Alkan, who netted his fifth of the season, has now scored a goal in five of the Privateers six games.

 

Sophomore midfielder James Salka (Washingtonville, NY/Washingtonville) (Washingtonville, NY/Washingtonville) netted the game-winning goal at 21:31 hitting the lower left corner as the Cougar keeper was blocked by his own man. This was Salka’s first career goal and was assisted by sophomore midfielder Emilio Andino (Roselle, NJ/Abraham Clark) (Roselle, NJ/Abraham Clark).

 

Rounding out the scoring for the Privateers were sophomore Mayer Nelson (Poughkeepsie, NY/Arlington) (Poughkeepsie, NY/Arlington) who beat the Cougar keeper for his first goal of the season, and freshman Michael Bulzomi (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) (Oakdale, NY/Connetquot) who scored his first career goal on a pass from Nelson with just under five minutes left in the first half to give Maritime a 4-0 lead heading into intermission.

 

Medgar Evers’ lone goal came in the second half [65:29] when senior Hugh Chin (Brooklyn, NY/Jamaica College) sent a direct kick to the upper left corner, just out of the reach of Privateer keeper Matt Kavanaugh (Penfield, NY/Penfield) (Penfield, NY/Penfield). Kavanaugh would finish the game with a season high 14 saves, while freshman John Ajirotutu (Brooklyn, NY/Canarsie) had seven saves on the day.

 

The Privateers will now head to Yonkers, NY on Wednesday for a Skyline Conference match against the Dolphins of Mount Saint Vincent. When these two teams last met, the Privateers battled to a 3-2 win over the Dolphins in double overtime.

 

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