Farmingdale State 9, Maritime 0
THROGGS NECK, N.Y. | A hat trick by sophomore winger
Kayla Mendez (Staten Island, N.Y.) led the Farmingdale State College women's soccer team on Friday afternoon, as it remained unbeaten in Skyline Conference with a 9-0 victory at SUNY Maritime College.
FSC (6-7-4, 5-0-3 Skyline) raced out to a 6-0 lead by halftime, including three goals inside the first nine minutes of the match versus the Privateers (6-7-1, 1-6-1), to move into cruise control from the outset. Inside the first two minutes, junior wingerÂ
Alexandra Coloma (Seaford, N.Y.) cut inside from the left and played freshman
Abigail Chest (Johnstown, N.Y.) into the penalty area alone. Chest dribbled around the keeper, and slotted home into an empty net to provide all the offense the Rams would need on the day.
Mendez's first goal on the day came after getting sent down the right wing by junior attacker
Alyse Rivera (Manhattan, N.Y.), and she doubled the FSC edge in close against the Maritime keeper. Coloma added her second assist nine minutes in, when she set up freshmanÂ
Rachel McAuliff's (Sayville, N.Y.) ninth goal of the season. Mendez doubled her scoring total on the day at the 14-minute mark, before Rivera found the scoresheet 16 minutes before halftime. Rounding out the first-half scoring was freshman
Rylee Valenzano (Centereach, N.Y.), whose first collegiate goal came courtesy of a 30-yard free kick with 4:06 left.
Mendez, who registered her third two-plus-goal outing in Skyline competition, completed her first collegiate hat trick in the 59th minute of action, when she finished off a breakaway on a midfield pass from Rivera. McAuliff followed suit with her 10th score of 2024, as with 24 minutes to go, she knocked home a well-placed corner kick from freshmanÂ
Lauren Keach (Bay Shore, N.Y.). Keach's first collegiate goal came in the final minutes of the match, when she scored off her own corner kick.
Junior keeper
Hailey Stork (Bellmore, N.Y.) picked up her fifth clean sheet in as many starts in her two-year career for the Rams, including her third of 2024. Farmingdale State is back at home in Skyline play Wednesday (Oct. 23), in a 5 p.m. kickoff versus SUNY Old Westbury.
