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Posted: Oct 04, 2008

Franklin Pierce Runs Past Mercy, 6-0

Franklin Pierce Runs Past Mercy, 6-0
Box Score

Junior Kensaku Tsuji exploded for two goals and two assists to lead the Ravens to six second half goals tonight.

Tsuji collects two goals and two assists as Ravens erupt for six second half goals

Boxscore 

RINDGE, N.H. (October 4, 2008) - Defending NCAA Division II Champion Franklin Pierce University scored all six goals in the second half and raced to a 6-0 victory over Mercy College in a non-conference men's soccer match at Sodexo Field tonight.

Junior midfielder Kensaku Tsuji (Tokushima, Japan) led Franklin Pierce's second half onslaught with two goals and two assists for six points on the night. Freshman Viktor Gonçalves (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) added a goal and three assists for five points, while grad student Casey Ftorek (Wolfeboro, N.H./Taft School), a transfer and All-American from defending NCAA Division III Champion Middlebury College, chipped in a goal and assist. The Ravens also got goals from senior Cole Larned (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) and junior Sean Ahern (Somers, Conn./Somers).


Freshman Viktor Goncalves added a goal and three assists.

Freshman Vinny Papageorgiou (Wilmington, Mass./Wilmington) and sophomore Carl Contrascier (Hinkley, Ohio/Highland) split shutout duties in goal for Franklin Pierce. Papageorgiou made one save in 76:23, before yielding to Contrascier who didn't record a save over the final 12:37 as the Ravens notched their fourth clean sheet of the season. Freshman Martin Walsh (Dublin, Ireland) made seven saves in goal for Mercy, who was out-shot 24-3 for the match.

Franklin Pierce posted a 10-0 shots advantage in the first half but came away empty as Walsh made five saves and sophomore Gianfranco Bastone (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Westchester CC) cleared a Tsuji shot off the line with a header in the opening minutes.

Franklin Pierce wasted little time in taking a lead in the second half as Tsuji put the Ravens in front for good, when he took a Gonçalves cross from the left side and fired a low shot into the goal 3:08 in. Gonçalves set up the Ravens second goal off a corner kick, when he slotted a pass to Larned for a drive from 20-yards out on the left side into near side of the goal in the 62nd minute. 


Grad student Casey Ftorek contributed a goal and assist.

Larned's first goal of the season sparked a four-goal outburst for Franklin Pierce that sealed the win. Tsuji completed his double with a low shot into the left side of the net off a feed from Ftorek in the 68th minute. Ftorek netted his first goal for Franklin Pierce just 1:46 later with a header off a cross from Tsuji in the 70th minute. The Ravens wrapped up the ten-minute stretch when Gonçalves knocked in a loose ball at the far post after a cross from Tsuji on the right side was headed across goal by freshman Michael Busto (Honolulu, Hawaii/Punahou School) in the 72nd minute.

Franklin Pierce rounded out the scoring with 1:11 to play in regulation when Gonçalves set up Ahern for his second goal of the season.

Franklin Pierce (7-4-1, 5-0-1 NE-10) is back in action on Wednesday for a key Northeast-10 Conference battle at the University of Massachusetts Lowell at 7 p.m. The Ravens are back home next Saturday to host Assumption College at 7 p.m. Mercy (1-8-0, 0-1-0 ECC) visits Concordia College on Tuesday at 3 p.m.