HACKENSACK, N.J. – Four different goal scorers led the Fairleigh Dickinson women's soccer team to a 4-0 win over Wagner on Friday night.
Sofia Albertsson recorded her sixth of the season, leads the team.
Jessi Reinhardt tallied her second of the season,
Viktorija Miseljic notched her fourth and
Chloe Chefero got her first as a collegiate.
Daria Jones tallied two assists, and Reinhardt and Miseljic made it a three-point night with a helper.
Head coach
Eric Teepe said postgame, "I was not really happy with our first half. We got a chance early and we thought it was going to be an easy game, but for the next 20 minutes they had some chances. With us being young, that is one thing we still have to learn; you have to apparoach each team like they are capable. We talked about that at halftime, and we came out ready to go in the second half."
Fairleigh Dickinson (4-7-2, 2-0 NEC) is 2-0 in Northeast Conference play for the fifth straight season. The Knights have also won three consecutive games over Wagner (3-6-3, 0-1-1 NEC).
Wagner had the first quality chance of the game –16th minute – when Maria D'Amico put a header on goal that
Amanda Fitzgerald saved that forced the ball off the post and out. Less three minutes later Albertsson struck for the Knights at the back post on a header from a Reinhardt corner to make it 1-0.
Reinhardt added her name to the scoresheet in the 27th minute when she controlled the ball in the midfield. She dribbled, looked up and fired from 30-plus yards out and put a shot in off the hands of the Wagner goalkeeper, Delaney Beck, and in to make it 2-0 Fairleigh Dickinson.
The Knights had some chances in the later portions of the first half, but Wagner held the score at 2-0 heading into the halftime break.
Both of Fairleigh Dickinson's second-half goals game within the 90 seconds over the 49th and 51st minutes. Miseljic got a through ball from
Daria Jones and beat Katie Viscardi, who replaced Beck at the half, to the near-left post in a one-on-one situation with Viscardi.
Chefero completed the scoring with the fourth Knights goal on a feed from Jones that the first-year Knight took a touch and fired it with her left foot to beat Viscardi to the same post as Miseljic.
Wagner forced
Cassandra Marcoux, who came on in the 72nd minute for Fitzgerald, to make some four saves over the final 18 minutes. Marcoux controlled those shots and kept the clean sheet for Fairleigh Dickinson.
The Knights have not allowed a goal over the last 270 minutes as they have shutout Cornell and Central Connecticut and Wagner to open NEC play. The previous time Fairleigh Dickinson shutout three straight opponents was the 2013 season when they kept four consecutive opponents (3-0-1) off the scoreboard.
"We have to be prepared for LIU and we cannot take anything for granted," he added. "We talked about this weekend being important and how we needed to win two."
Up next for the Knights is a clash with LIU Brooklyn in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday at 1 p.m. The game can be watched live on NECFrontRow.com.
