By: Michael L. Damon
mdamon@jjay.cuny.edu
(212) 237-8322
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Maspeth, N.Y.— The John Jay men's soccer team closed out its 2010 home schedule with a loss as the Bloodhounds fell to Berkeley College (NJ) 3-1 at the Metropolitan Oval on Saturday afternoon.
With the loss, the Bloodhounds move to 6-9-2 overall this season before going into the opening round of the 2010 Applebee's / City University of New York Athletic Conference championship where they will face York College on Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the York College Soccer Complex.
On Saturday, the visiting Knights took the lead at the 12:45 mark of the contest as
Johnny Campos scored his first of two goals on the afternoon. He knocked in a rebounding shot by teammate
Ramon Arce that John Jay starting goalkeeper
Steven Merino (Bronx, NY, Salesian) made the initial save on.
After going into halftime leading 1-0, Berkeley scored again very early in the second half as Campos connected on a pass from Arce and scored from point blank range to put the Knights up by a pair.
The Bloodhounds then cut the deficit in half when
M. Nasim Allah Morad (Flushing, NY, Flushing International) scored a goal, his first against a non CUNYAC team, his seventh of the season, on a direct kick at 54:28.
But the Knights scored one more time to cushion the lead when Arce found the back of the mesh on a free kick just two minutes after the Bloodhounds had cut the lead to one.
Neither team scored the rest of the way.
Merino made four saves in the first half for John Jay before giving way to
Kemar Brown in the second stanza who made two saves.
Berkeley outshot John Jay 15-14 in the contest. Allah Morad,
Kareem Roberts (St. Albans, NY, William Taft) and
Steven Castillo (Maspeth, NY, Forest Hills) took three shots each in the match.
John Jay is the No. 6 seed in the conference championship while York is No. 3. The winner of that contest will play at 8 p.m. at the Metropolitan Oval on Sat. Oct. 30 against the winner between No. 2 Hunter College and No. 7 CCNY.
The Bloodhounds final regular season comes after the conference championship with a match against Yeshiva University on Nov. 10 at Tibbets Brook Park in Yonkers, N.Y.
