Box Score

DOVER, DE—The NJIT women's soccer team matched its season high with three goals, while also notching its third shutout of the season in a 3-0 win at Delaware State Friday night.
 
The win raised the Highlanders to 4-8. Delaware State is 0-10, but had allowed as many as three goals just three times prior to NJIT hanging a triple on the Hornets Friday.
 
NJIT, which had three goals in a 3-2 win at Saint Peter's back on August 29, matched that total Friday, with the goals at DSU coming from three different players. Megan Dellavalle and Rebecca Tustin each scored their second goal of the year and junior back Jenny Cislo scored her first goal of the season and of her career.
 
Dellavalle scored the first goal of the night at 21:15 with an assist credited to Tustin, who advanced the ball after a long goal kick by goalkeeper Samantha Bersett. Cislo's marker in the 28th minute earned an assist for Jamee Simone. And Tustin scored at 49:43, finishing after a throw-in by freshman Julia Keebaugh, who collected her first career point.
 
Bersett posted her seventh college shutout and third in this, her sophomore season. She made 3 saves for her latest clean sheet.
 
Katelyn Koslosky, the Delaware State junior, made 6 stops in defeat for the Hornets.
 
The final totals showed NJIT with a lead in overall shots of 16-10, including 9-3 in shots on goal. However, DSU had a 6-1 lead in corner kicks. The Hornets' 10 total shots were a new season high.
 
On the opening goal, NJIT's Bersett booted the goal kick out to midfield, where Dellavalle gained control and burst past several defenders, knocking the ball past Koslosky in the 22nd minute.
 
Cislo made it 2-0 for the Highlanders six minutes later. Among the leading defenders for NJIT, Cislo has 51 career starts in as many games, but had attempted just 9 career shots prior to finding the mark on her only try Friday night. Controlling the ball in front of the net shortly after a corner kick, Cislo scored from out of a crowd of Delaware State defenders.
 
Tustin, whose career was temporarily sidetracked by knee surgery that cost her the 2011 season, finished off the scoring early in the second half after finding her self alone for a shot after Keebaugh's throw-in in the 50th minute.
 
Friday's win raised NJIT's record in the all-time series vs. the Hornets to 10-1. The two teams were part of the same conference from the 2007 season through 2012, but both became independents when the Great West Conference ceased operations on July 1 this year. However, they are playing home-and-home this season, with Delaware State visiting NJIT on November 6 for the season finale.
 
The Highlanders, who have played their last four games away from home, will hit the road again, albeit not travelling very far, when they cross the Hudson River to visit Columbia in New York City on Monday night at 7 pm.