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MSOC - Rafferty and Yagoub
0
Penn St. Brandywine PSW (1-8-0, 0-3-0)
6
Winner Penn St.-Abington PSA (4-4-3, 3-0-0)
Penn St. Brandywine PSW
(1-8-0, 0-3-0)
0
Final
6
Penn St.-Abington PSA
(4-4-3, 3-0-0)
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Penn St. Brandywine PSW 0 0 0
Penn St.-Abington PSA 2 4 6

Game Recap: Men's Soccer |

Abington Blanks Brandywine, 6-0

Abington, Pa. – Junior Frankie Rafferty and sophomore Aramis Shire each scored a pair of goals, while junior Amerr Yagoub tied the school record with three assists in the team's 6-0 victory over visiting Penn State Brandywine in a United East Conference (UEC) matchup on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Field.
 
Score: Penn State Abington 6, Penn State Brandywine 0
Records: Penn State Abington (4-4-3, 3-0-0 UEC) | Penn State Brandywine (1-8-0, 0-3-0 UEC)
Location: Abington, Pa. (Memorial Field)

Goal Scorers
F. Rafferty – PSA (21') | Hugh Nungessor – PSA (27') | A. Shire – PSA (53') | A. Shire – PSA (62') | F. Rafferty – PSA (65') | Mohamed Konneh – PSA (70')

How It Happened
 
* Abington scored the game's first goal midway through the first half which turned out to be one of six tallied by the Nittany Lions on the day.  Rafferty connected on his first of two goals in the 21st minute after receiving a pass from Yagoub at the top of the box. 
 
* Abington doubled its lead in the 27th minute after senior Hugh Nungessor sneaked in a score off a cross pass in front of the net that found its way past the Brandywine goaltender.
 
* The score remained 2-0 in favor of the home Lions through halftime.  Abington made it a 3-0 game in the 53rd minute after Shire scored his first of two second half goals.  Yagoub set the play up with a pass to the left side as Shire finished with a shot towards the lower right.
 
* Abington capped the game's scoring with three goals in less than a 10-minute span starting with Shire's second goal of the game in the 62nd minute.  Freshman Shane Lachawiec assisted on the score that gave the Nittany Lions a 4-0 advantage.
 
*  In the 65th minute, Rafferty tallied his second goal and seventh of the season.  Shire made a pass from the left side to the top of the box where Yagoub shot the ball.  Rafferty tapped in Yagoub's shot to give Abington a 5-0 lead.  Minutes later, Abington scored its final goal of the game off the foot of junior Mohamed Konneh.  Freshman Adiv Opinkaro made a cross pass from the right side into the box as Konneh finished for the score in the 70th minute.
 
Inside the Box Score
 
* Abington dominated the game from start to finish.  The Nittany Lions recorded a season-high 29 shots, including 15 on-goal.  Nungessor and Rafferty led the team with four shots each.  Abington also attempted 16 corner kicks, including 11 in the second half alone to just one by Brandywine. 
 
* Rafferty recorded his first career multi-goal game and is now in a tie for the conference lead in goals with St. Mary's College's (Md.) Nick Haney with seven scores.  Rafferty has scored in each of his last three games, all against conference opponents. 
 
* Yagoub became the fifth player in program history to register three assists in a game in the team's Division III era.  It also increased his season total to four setting a new career-high.  All four of Yagoub's assists this year have come in the last two games.
 
* Shire registered his first career multi-goal came to go along with an assist for a career-high five points on the day. 
 
* Freshmen goalkeepers Hector Ortiz and Angelo D'Asti earned the combined team shutout.  Ortiz started with a clean first half, while D'Asti preserved the shutout with a clean second half.
 
* After scoring his first career goal earlier in the week at Cairn University, Opinkaro continued a week of firsts with his first career assist.  
 
All-Time Series
Today marked just the third meeting between Abington and Brandywine since the start of the 2013 season and the first since 2018.  Abington is now 3-0-0 versus Brandywine in the all-time series.
 
Next Up
Abington returns to action on Wednesday, Oct. 7 as the Nittany Lions host Penn State Berks in United East action.  Game time is set for 3:30 p.m.

 
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