Farmingdale State - 6; Old Westbury - 1
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. | Junior
Anthony Bileddo (Carle Place, N.Y.) scored a pair of first-half goals, while freshman midfielder
Jose Gil Mejia (Guatemala City, Guatemala) added a goal and three assists Saturday afternoon for the Farmingdale State College men's soccer team, which picked up a 6-1, Skyline Conference victory over visiting SUNY Old Westbury.
Bileddo scored his first goal of the afternoon for the Rams (5-2-2, 3-0-1 Skyline) 31 minutes in, when he played senior
Rafael Castro (Cartagena, Colombia) into the top-right of the penalty area. Castro's return cross found Bileddo at the left post, and the junior tapped into the empty net for his seventh goal of the season to open the scoring.
The Panthers (2-6, 0-4) leveled the match less than four minutes later, when a loose ball found Roobens Celine at the penalty spot before he slotted into the lower-right corner to knot the score at 1-all.
FSC responded with a pair of goals 24 seconds apart to bring a 3-1 lead into halftime. Freshman midfielder
Jose Gil Mejia (Guatemala City, Guatemala) unlocked the OW defense in the 42nd minute with a pass to find senior
Michael Lanouette (Hamden, Conn.), who beat the Panthers' keeper to put the host side back in front, 2-1.
Gil Mejia then found Bileddo down the left side of the area less than 30 seconds later, with the junior finding the lower-right corner to double the Rams' lead.
Ten minutes into second-half action, Gil Mejia fired a 20-yard effort towards the goal that deflected in off a defender, giving Farmingdale State a three-goal edge. He later assisted on a headed goal by junior
Joseph Raso (E. Islip, N.Y.) 12 minutes before the final horn, before senior
Brandon Balcaceres (Farmingdale, N.Y.) chipped the goalie from the top of the center circle with less than five minutes to go.
Head coach Chuck Schimpf's Rams are next in Skyline action at home on Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 3), when they play host to defending regular-season leader Manhattanville College in a 4 p.m. kickoff.
