Box Score CAMDEN, N.J. (Oct. 11, 2015) – For most of the first half of its non-conference game here Sunday, the Rutgers-Camden men's soccer team was on the attack, threatening the Randolph College goal.
It was the WildCats, however, who scored on one of their rare first-half chances, and the visitors from Lynchburg, Virginia, went on to post a 3-0 victory over the Scarlet Raptors.
Randolph improves to 6-3-3, including 3-0-2 in its last five games.
Rutgers-Camden, which was ranked No. 18 in the last
D3soccer.com Top 25 poll, falls to 9-4-1.
Rutgers-Camden out-shot Randolph, 14-6, in the opening half and the shots were even more lopsided until the WildCats took the final three shots of the half. Yet only 9:26 into the action, Randolph junior
Troy Jurney (Camp Lejeune, NC/White Oak) crossed a ball from the left baseline clear across the goal mouth to the far post, where it was finished by freshman
Nicholas Rodriguez (Woodbridge, VA/C.D. Hylton) for his third goal of the season.
The Scarlet Raptors had many opportunities to tie the game the rest of the half, including a shot by sophomore midfielder
Clayton Taylor (Mendham, NJ/West Morris-Mendham) off the crossbar in the 31st minute, but missed chances and four first-half saves by freshman keeper
Matt Tourbin (Leesburg, VA/Loudoun County) kept them off the boards.
Early in the second half, Rodriguez struck again following a long cross to the right side of the box by junior back
Blake Heatherly (Jacksonville, NC/Jacksonville). Rodriguez flipped it into the net for his second goal of the day and fourth of the season.
The WildCats' final tally came off a corner kick by Heatherly to the near left post, that was tucked inside the net by Jurney at 68:04. It was his fourth goal of the season.
Rutgers-Camden finished with a 28-18 advantage in shots and a 7-4 edge in corner kicks. Tourbin made nine saves and was aided by a second-half backsave at the right post to post his second shutout of the season. Freshman goalie
James Brett (Palmyra, NJ/Palmyra) had seven saves for the Scarlet Raptors.
Rutgers-Camden returns to action Wednesday night at The College of New Jersey, where it will play a 7:30 p.m. New Jersey Athletic Conference game.
