Box Score



YONKERS, N.Y.— Fresh off a thirty day lay-off in observance of the holidays, the Yeshiva University men's soccer team was defeated by Farmingdale State College, 3-0, in a Skyline Conference match at Tibbets Brook Park on Tuesday evening.

Playing without two key players due to injury, Yeshiva (0-3, 0-1 Skyline) still opened the match strong and controlled the tempo during the early stages of the game. With excellent spacing and crisp passing, the Maccabees had the ball in the Farmingdale State end for a large portion of the first half, and had several opportunities early that just missed.

Farmingdale State (5-5, 1-1 Skyline) gathered momentum later in the first half and capitalized on a pair of Yeshiva miscues to take a 2-0 lead just before halftime. The Rams broke the scoreless tie on a goal by Tyler Rollman at 37:57. Yeshiva was caught out of their shape and allowed a through ball up the middle. Rollman's goal came via the far side of the field from just inside the box and lifted the shot to the near side of the goal. Moments later, Farmingdale State scored again at 41:26 on a goal by Vincent Danetti.

In the second half, the Maccabees came out attacking once again, while holding Farmingdale State without a shot attempt for the first forty minutes of the stanza. Meanwhile Yeshiva applied pressure and had a couple of near misses that would have cut the deficit in half. YU's best chance came in the middle of the second half when a Yeshiva corner kick headed by Itamar Ben David ricocheted off the lower end of the cross bar.

Farmingdale State was outshot by the Maccabees 8-2 in the second half, but made of the most of its limited chances when Victor Romero put home a goal from point blank range off a centering pass from Yaroslav Herin with 1:29 to go.

"Tonight was a fun game, our guys played well. We made a few mistakes but mitigated their impact on the result and created our own danger at the same time," said head coach Joshua Pransky. " A few of our guys really stepped up tonight filling in at positions they haven't played or stepping into the starting eleven. We are learning about ourselves in these early games and tonight was another lesson for us on a couple of things."

YU outshot the Rams 13-9 and was led by Ben David with four shots, three of which were on goal. Leon Aboudi, Daniel Benchimol and Rafi Friedman added two shots each for the Maccabees.