Box Score

STATEN ISLAND, NY—Wagner scored three times in the last 20:06, breaking open what had been a 1-0 game for nearly 70 minutes, and the Seahawks won 4-0, upping their season record to 6-1-1 with the victory against visiting NJIT in women's soccer Friday night.
 
Wagner, which began the season 4-0 before tying Maine and losing 2-1 to Stony Brook, got back on track with a 2-1 win vs. Manhattan ahead beating NJIT. Each Seahawk goal Friday was scored by a different player, as Wagner, which twice had scored three goals in its earlier games, registered a new season scoring high in topping the Highlanders. Wagner is 4-0-1 at home.
 
Sydney McCarthy, Megan Fritz, Daniella Davis, and Samantha Jensen each found the back of the net for the winners. McCarthy scored the game's first goal, unassisted, at 17:06 and then she assisted Fritz at 69:54. Davis scored less than three minutes later (72:36) with an assist from Sydney McNutt, and Jensen capped the barrage in the 84th minute, with Maura Peters earning the assist.
 
NJIT (3-6), which had won back-to-back games last weekend against VMI and Rider and hadn't allowed more than three goals in any of its previous eight games, was limited to three shots on goal Friday, as the brief winning streak came to a halt.
 
Wagner, which put two shots on goal in the first half to one for the Highlanders, stepped it up 7-2 in the second half, for a final lead of 9-3 in that department. Overall, the final overall shots were 22-8 for the Seahawks, 15-4 over the closing 45 minutes.
 
Wagner's junior goalkeeper Katie Marcy made three saves for her second shutout of the year, while Samantha Bersett faced nine shots on goal in the NJIT net, stopping five of them. Wagner had a 5-4 lead in corners.
 
McCarthy, a junior who had a goal vs. NJIT last year in a 3-1 Seahawk win in Newark, opened the scoring Friday in the 18th minute on her third goal of the year, which ties three other Seahawks for the team lead.
 
The deficit stayed at a manageable 1-0 for the Highlanders throughout the whole rest of the first half and nearly 25 minutes into the second half. But then the dam broke and the Wagner attack flooded the NJIT goal with three more scores, including the first insurance goal in the 70th minute and another one in the 73rd minute.
 
Leading 1-0 at the halftime break, Wagner peppered the Highlander goal with three shots inside a stretch of 2:36 early in the second half. Junior defender Jenny Cislo, who had two shots to pace the Highlanders, answered that flurry with a shot on goal that was stopped by Wagner's Marcy.
 
Later, the Seahawks took five shots in 5:09, capped by the Fritz goal that made it 2-0 at the 69:54 mark. Fritz, a freshman, shares the team goal-scoring lead with McCarthy and two others. Davis, a sophomore, notched her first goal of the year 2:42 later and Jensen, a sophomore, finished things off with her second goal of the season 6:25 before the final whistle. The Fritz and Davis goals were both scored in traffic. Jensen's goal came on a breakaway set up by the pass from Peters. Jensen then maneuvered around NJIT's Bersett to finish the play.
 
NJIT's shots on goal came from Rebecca Tustin, the reigning national Division I Independent Player of the week, as well as from junior defender Jenny Cislo and freshman Brittany Goulart. Cislo's two total shots paced the Highlanders.
 
The Highlanders, who marked the first of five straight road games with their trip to Wagner, will venture to upstate New York and Ithaca for a 4 pm game Sunday afternoon at Cornell, which is 4-2-1 and had won three straight until dropping a 1-0 decision against Cincinnati on Friday night.