JERSEY CITY, New Jersey – Junior forward Stefan Copetti increased his points streak to eight games with a goal in the 87th minute, but two Saint Peter's goals in the second half were enough to drop Marist 2-1 on Saturday afternoon at Jaroschak Field.
 
The Red Foxes stumble to 2-2 in MAAC play and 5-6-1 overall. The Peacocks improve to 2-2 in conference and 4-7 on the season.
 
After a scoreless first half, Saint Peter's broke the ice in the 59th minute as Matt Ellis collected a deflected cross at the top of the box and sent the ball past Marist keeper Samuel Ilin to stake the home team to a 1-0 lead. Twenty-three minutes later, Daniel Blackmore fired home a loose ball in the penalty area to increase the Peacocks' edge to 2-0.
 
Copetti cut the deficit to 2-1 when he drilled the ball past netminder Herman Wulff in the lower-left corner. Marist had two chances in the final minutes, but Wulff denied junior midfielder Henrique Cruz, and senior midfielder Jacob Schulman lifted a shot high with seven seconds left.
 
The Red Foxes rattled off 22 shots, including a team-best five from Copetti. Ilin made three saves in the loss.
 
Wulff secured 10 saves between the pipes for Saint Peter's. Three different Peacocks notched assists.
 

first half

• Graduate forward Kyle Galloway fired the first shot of the game in the sixth minute, curling a right-footed 20-yarder to the right post that required a Wulff save.
• Moments after Ilin's first save in the 10th minute, the Red Foxes countered with freshman forward Richard Morel's contested shot inside the box. Wulff made the stop in the lower-right corner of the cage.
• In the 22nd minute, senior midfielder Skylar Conway launched Marist's third shot on target, but Wulff was there for the denial.
• With less than nine minutes until the half, Marist earned a free kick. Cruz took the kick, sending it above the crossbar from about 25 yards away.
• Freshman defender Andre Cutler-DeJesus rocketed a 25-yard shot from the middle that Wullf leaped to deflect over the bar. The ensuing corner kick resulted in a loose ball in the box, but Saint Peter's cleared it away from danger.

 

second half

• In the opening minutes, Conlan Paventi corked a shot wide right.
• Wulff sent away Copetti in the 52nd minute with his save down the middle.
• Moments later, Saint Peter's had two chances. Matt Hoyt's try was blocked, and Jamie Davis couldn't get one past Ilin.
• After Cruz missed high in the 65th minute, the Peacocks countered on the goal kick, leading to Ilin making a save on Hoyt.
• With 10 minutes to play, Copetti drove the ball into Wulff, and the rebound went to Morel up top, but he laced the shot high-left.
• Marist drove three shots toward Wulff prior to the goal, with the keeper denying graduate captain Huib Achterkamp and junior midfielder Antek Sienkiel.

 

stats

• Marist had the edge in shots (22-9) and shots on goal (11-5).
• Twenty-one of those shots came from the starting XI.
• Corner kicks favored the Red Foxes 7-4, with five of them arriving in the first 45 minutes.
• Six Red Foxes played the full 90 minutes: Ilin, Cruz, Sienkiel, Conway, Achterkamp, and redshirt junior defender Demarre Montoute.

 

notes

• Copetti has registered eight consecutive games with a point, and five straight games with a goal. He entered Saturday top-five in the MAAC in goals and top 10 in points.
• Marist's 11 shots on goal tied for the season-high. Saturday was the second time in the last three games the Red Foxes fired 20-plus shots.
• Marist has lost two games in a row for the first time in exactly two years, spanning 20 matches.
• Saint Peter's has won three straight in the rivalry.

 

quote from coach

 
"We can talk all we want about possession, shots, and balls cleared off the line. And for the first half and the last part of the second, we did our jobs properly where we deserved more from the game. However, the game is 90 minutes. Saint Peter's was never going to be an easy place to play, and we just didn't enough winning plays or lay it all our on the line to get the result." – Head Coach Matt Viggiano
 

up next

• The Red Foxes return to Poughkeepsie to host Rider on Wednesday, October 13th at 7 p.m.