Game 10	NJIT (3-3-3; 0-0-1 America East) vs. Binghamton (1-6-2; 0-1-0 America East)
Date | Time	Saturday, October 1, 2022 | 7pm
Location | Field	Newark, NJ | Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium
All-Time Series	Binghamton leads 3-2 all-time; NJIT leads 2-0 in the NJIT DI era
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Live Stats	In-Game Statistics

NEWARK, NJ–The NJIT men's soccer team will return home for a Saturday America East Conference match-up under the lights, hosting Binghamton at 7pm.

Game Information
The match will be played at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium with kickoff slated for 7pm on ESPN3.  In-game statistics will be available for free on NJITHighlanders.com

Road Warriors
NJIT opened the 2022 season with seven consecutive road matches, the most since the 2017 season when the Highlanders started off the season with a five-match road swing.  NJIT played its first home game of the season on September 20 vs. Sacred Heart, shutting out the Pioneers, 2-0.

All-Time Series
Binghamton leads 3-2 all-time; NJIT leads 2-0 in the NJIT DI era.  In the last meeting between the two teams on October 23, 2021, NJIT's fifth-year Regsan Watkins scored the game-winning goal in the 94th minute of overtime for the Highlanders 3-2 win over Binghamton.  A minute thirty into the first overtime, Watkins put away the game-winner to give the Highlanders a 3-2 comeback win.

America East Defensive Player of the Week | Samuel Reisgys
NJIT goalkeeper Samuel Reisgys has been selected America East Conference Defensive Player of Week the league office announced on Monday afternoon.

In a 1-0-1 week for NJIT, Reisgys registered a pair of shutouts and seven saves.  The senior from Rimbach, Germany, sits atop of the America East in shutouts per game (4; .444) and fourth in saves per game (3.56).

Reisgys recorded four saves in NJIT's home opener against Sacred Heart on September 20, becoming NJIT's Division I All-Time Career Leader in saves.

In the America East Conference opener at UMass Lowell on September 24, Reisgys stopped three River Hawks shots as the two teams played to a 0–0 draw, notching his fourth shutout of the season.

Last Time Out
The NJIT men's soccer team played to a 0-0 scoreless draw at UMass Lowell in the America East Conference opener for both teams on Saturday evening at Cushing Field.

Given the new rules governing overtime in the regular season, the game ended in a draw after 90 minutes and left both teams with a hard-fought point.

NJIT picks up its third tie of the season, remaining at .500 with a 3-3-3 overall record and 0-0-1 in the America East.  The three ties for the Highlanders are the most since the 2019 season when NJIT finished the season 10-5-4.

The 16 overall shots is the second highest total this season for NJIT (21 at Villanova; 9.14.22).  Reisgys picked up his second consecutive clean sheet of the season (fourth overall this season), combining four River Hawk shots. 

NJIT Notes
NJIT's Fernando Barboto enters his seventh season at the helm of the Highlanders.  

In 2019, Barboto guided the NJIT men's soccer program in capturing the ASUN Tournament and Regular Season title.  The 2019 ASUN Conference Coach of the Year along with his coaching staff, who was named United Soccer Coaches Atlantic Region Coaching Staff of the Year,  led the Highlanders to the first NCAA appearance at the Division I level (first round; at Providence on November 21, 2019).

Under Barboto, the Highlanders have made postseason appearances in five-out-of-six seasons (2021, 2020 in AE; 2019, 2018, 2017 in the ASUN Tournament).

The 32-man roster consists of 18 returners from the America East semifinals team and 13 newcomers.

Sophomore Goncalo Franco is the lone Highlander returning for the 2022 season who earned 2021 America East All-Conference accolades (All-Rookie Team).

Scouting the Highlanders
NJIT has collected wins against James Madison, La Salle and Sacred Heart while tying Drexel, Rider and UMass Lowell in the America East Conference opener and falling to UConn, Iona and Villanova.  The Highlanders were ranked in the United Soccer Coaches poll during the first two weeks of competition.

Goncalo Franco leads the Highlanders attack with three goals followed by Asembo Augo and Jose Del Valle with two goals apiece while freshman Maximus Barboto, who has earned America East Conference Rookie of the Week twice this season thus far, is the son of head coach Fernando Barboto.  He leads NJIT and the America East with four assists.  The Highlanders have scored at least one goal in seven out of nine matches this season.

Senior co-captain Reisgys has played every minute of all seven matches in goal for the Highlanders this season, posting a 1.67 goals-against average and a .703 saves percentage. His 213 career saves tops the record books in the NJIT All-Time Division I era.  He tops the America East in shutouts with four.

2022 NJIT Captains
NJIT head men's soccer coach Fernando Barboto announced senior goalkeeper Reisgys and Franco, NJIT's midfielder, as team captains to lead the Highlanders in the 2022 season.

Reisgys was named to the 2021 America East All-Academic team, starting every match (18) but one while Franco was selected to the America East All-Rookie team, netting a pair of goals in his first season at NJIT.

America East Conference
This will also be NJIT's third season in the America East after the school joined the league in July 2020. However, it will be the Highlanders' first AE campaign after a proper offseason (2020 was played in Spring 2021 due to COVID and 2021 was played the following fall). The Highlanders were selected to finish fifth in the 2022 Preseason Coaches Poll.

Scouting Binghamton
Binghamton enters Saturday's match with a 1-6-2 overall mark and 0-1-0 in the America East.  Most recently, the Bearcats registered its first win of the season, scoring eight goals, which represents their highest total since moving up to the NCAA Division I level back in 2001. It also marks the program's highest total since beating New Paltz 11-0 back in 1995, when Binghamton still competed at the NCAA Division III level.

Junior midfielder Markos Touroukis and senior forward Matthew Cozetti each scored twice while senior back Devin Heanue finished with a goal and two assists, powering Binghamton (1-6-2) to an 8-1 win over Hartford (0-9-0) in a non-conference men's soccer game on Tuesday night at the Bearcats Sports Complex.

The Bearcats lost its league opener, 2-0, at No. 22 Vermont on Saturday, September 24.

Touroukis paces the Bearcats with three goals, one assist and seven points.  Two Binghamton players have tallied a pair of goals – Matthew Cozetti and Joe Spires.

Next Up
NJIT will wrap up a two-match homestand on Saturday, October 8, hosting New Hampshire at 3pm on Homecoming Weekend.  The match will be streamed live on America East TV.