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Sophomore
Henning Comé needed less than 11-minutes to net his first
hat trick for Franklin Pierce tonight at Assumption. |
Franklin Pierce Rolls
Past Assumption, 4-1
Comé nets hat trick in opening 11-minutes
to spur Ravens to second-straight victory
WORCESTER, Mass.
(September 12, 2007) –
Franklin
Pierce University, ranked fifth in this week’s National Soccer
Coaches’ Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas New England Regional
poll, rode a hat trick by sophomore
Henning Comé
(Gothenburg, Sweden)
in just the opening 11-minutes of the match to a 4-1 victory over
Assumption College in Northeast-10 Conference men’s soccer action at
Multi-Sport Field.
Comé’s hat trick gave
Franklin Pierce a 3-0 lead it would not relinquish just 10:53 into
the match. Senior captain
Michel Vitulano
(Montreal, Quebec/College de Maisonneuve)
dished two assists for the Ravens on the night, including the final
marker of Comé’s hat trick.
Senior All-America
goalkeeper
James Thorpe (East Longmeadow, Mass./Bridgton Academy)
made three saves to preserve the win for Franklin Pierce. Freshman
Brandan
Sullivan (Halesite, N.Y./Saint Dominic)
made six saves in goal
for Assumption.
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Senior
captain Michel Vitulano dished a pair of assists in the
win. |
Comé took just
76-seconds to open the scoring as he directed a rebound of his own
shot which was initially cleared off the goal line by an Assumption
defender. He netted his second at 8:49, again off a rebound, before
completing his hat trick by directing a Vitulano free kick from the
left side past Sullivan in the 11th minute.
Assumption pulled a
goal back in the 31st minute as junior
Paul Murphy
(Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug)
took a pass from the midfield by senior
Joe Drain (Milton,
Mass./Milton)
and slipped a shot past Thorpe.
Franklin Pierce ended
any thoughts of a comeback just over ten minutes into the second
half off another Vitulano free kick. Grad student
David Clifton (London,
England),
making his first appearance for the Ravens this season, collected
the Vitulano service and slipped a shot through a defender’s legs at
the goal line.
Franklin Pierce (3-1-1,
2-0-0 NE-10) returns home to host American International College, as
part of Men’s Soccer Alumni Day at the University, on Saturday at 7
p.m. Assumption (1-6-1, 0-4-0 NE-10) travels to Saint Michael’s
College on Saturday for a match at 2 p.m.
MATCH
STATISTICS & PLAY-BY-PLAY