Box Score


PITTSBURGH—Freshman Maddie Layman scored the first two goals of her college career in a space of less than five minutes in the first half, pacing Duquesne in its 3-0 women's soccer win over visiting NJIT Friday evening on Duquesne's Arthur J. Rooney Field.
 
Layman opened the scoring on a goal in the 29th minute and added her second tally in the 33rd minute, giving the Dukes (4-4-1) more than enough scoring to win. The 2-0 lead held all the way until the final minute, when the home team added a third goal, this time by sophomore Danya Fenech, just 53 seconds before the final whistle.
 
Freshman Haley Yow assisted on Layman's first goal, while sophomore Amy Vinopal and freshman Emma Coccia picked up assists on the second Layman goal. Another freshman, AJ Baroffio assisted on the third Duquesne goal.
 
Senior Ashley Szalwinski picked up her first shutout of the year for the home team, making two saves in 90 minutes to claim the clean sheet (Duquesne has four shutouts as a team). NJIT goalkeeper Samantha Bersett also went the distance, saving six shots.
 
The shots favored the victors, 19-5 overall and 9-2 in shots-on-goal. The corner kicks were 4-2 for the Dukes, who have a four-match unbeaten string (a tie, followed by three wins: 1-0 in overtime at Niagara; 3-1 at home over Robert Morris; and now, 3-0 vs. NJIT) over the last two weeks.
 
Layman's first goal was the kind teams practice hard to prevent, as she converted at 28:16 off of a corner kick by Yow, who has two assists on the year.
 
The second goal, 3:21 after the first, was Layman's second of the night and second of the season, as Vinopal and Coccia each collected their second assist of 2013 on the play.
 
The final goal, scored in the last minute, came when Fenech knocked home a rebound after NJIT's Bersett made an initial save on Baroffio.
 
Five different players accounted for the five NJIT shots and the shots-on-goal came from Kaelyn Gamel and Courtney McHugh, both in the second half with the Highlanders trying to climb back from a 2-0 deficit.
 
NJIT, which played the third of five straight away game when it visited Duquesne, is off now for a week, until it visits Delaware State for a game on Friday, October 4 at 7 pm.
 
Delaware State and NJIT have been frequent opponents this decade, having faced each other 10 times since 2003 (NJIT leads the series, 9-1), including a 1-0 win for the Highlanders in Newark last October 11.
 
The teams actually met twice when NJIT was still an NCAA Division II program (5-1, NJIT in 2003; 3-1, NJIT in 2005). They did not meet in NJIT's first Division I season (2006), but have played at least once every season since as members of the same conference.
 
They were part of the United Soccer Conference in 2007 and 2008 and then helped form the Eastern Division of the Great West Conference when the GWC absorbed the USC in 2009. Now, with the GWC disbanded, the series continues with home-and-home games in 2013.