CCNY Men's Soccer Closes Their Regular Season With a 5-1 Win Over Medgar Evers

City College ended their regular season with a 5-1 win over Medgar Evers Saturday morning at Randall's Island.

Aaron Schoenfelder had a brace for City. Abraham Martinez, Stephanos Hondrakis and Augustine Amissah also contributed in City's five goals. Zeakial Daley scored Medgar Evers' lone goal.

This victory pushes CCNY (8-7, 5-3 CUNYAC) to a three game winning streak, ending their regular season in third place with 15 points, just four points shy of first place Staten Island.

When asked about his thoughts on the team's performance during the regular season, Schoenfelder said: "We probably could've done more but I'm satisfied of where we got. Even though we had some bad results in the beginning, things came around so to take it all... I think the place is fair."

Medgar Evers (2-13-1, 1-6-1 CUNYAC) ends their season with four points, sitting in seventh place, the last playoff position.

Medgar played the whole game with nine players. With a two men advantage the Beavers would score their first goal in the 11th minute. Hondrakis finished Lanfia Diaby's cross.

City's second goal came of a penalty kick in the 23rd minute. Schoenfelder was fouled by Patrick Gentles in the penalty area. Schoenfelder took and converted his penalty kick.

City would score again nine minutes into the second half. Stylianos Markou crossed the ball to Diaby, who laid the ball to Amissah. Amissah lasered the ball in the bottom right corner of the net to beat the Cougars keeper Remorn Radway.

It took City a minute to score again. Martinez finished Stylianos' cross from close-range. The freshman was pleased to score the first goal of his college career, "I didn't think I was going to score. It's a good feeling."

And for Stylianos that was his second assist of the game. "It was alright, I could've played better," the midfielder said. "But I was working, got the ball to my teammate, they did the hard part."

Schoenfelder completed his brace in the 88th minute to make it five for CCNY. Schoenfelder connected with Christopher Lovelle's through ball, dribbled, and struck the ball in the far corner of the net.

9-men Medgar had a consolation goal with two seconds remaining in the game. Daley muscled around a City defender and hit a screamer past Kamal Abdelrahman.

Finishing third, City have a home-game advantage in Wednesday's quarterfinal against John Jay at 2 p.m. They will be without their top scorer Kenan Redzematovic who picked up a knee injury against John Jay on Oct. 17.

Freshman Luis Castillo will replace Redzematovic. Castillo started four games for City and scored two goals. "Although I didn't get much playing time at the beginning I feel like I can score goals and make a difference," Castillo said.

And for Medgar Evers they will go against first-place Staten Island in the quarter-finals Wednesday at 4 p.m.