Seawolves Men’s Soccer Alumni Return
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By Antony Lin The current Seawolves squad would defeat the Alumni by the score of 3-0, with all goals coming in the first half on the beautiful night at LaValle Stadium. Assistant coach Dariel Collazo would play the role of the head referee. It was a night not to be forgotten as the defending 2005 America East champions also go to get a feel of their championship rings for the first time. It was a good chance to see good players that graduated from here,” said Yahaya Musa . “At the end of the day we are all part of what helped Stony Brook be a good team.” “I thought our guys played well,” said head coach Cesar Markovic . “Our alumni team is a good team. There are about 6-7 guys getting paid to play soccer. It was just a lot of fun to have all the guys together.” A large number of the Stony Brook alumni are currently members of the Long Island Rough Riders of the United Soccer League (USL) 2nd division. Of that group, Joshua Allen, Anthony Barberio, Rob Fucci, Chris Megaloudis and Douglas Narvaez made appearances in the match. Assistant coach Jack Stefanowski also made a few appearances for the Rough Riders for their past season. “It is great seeing how the program is doing well even though they lost lot of players. It is good to come out here,” said Megaloudis. “They are well coached. I have been with Cesar (Markovic) for four years and he gets the best of out of the players.” Adam Ciklic would notch the game-winning goal off a great passing combination between Mahamadou Simpara and Michael Palacio . Ciklic’s shot from 9 yards out would find the lower right corner of the net. The Alumni would find themselves down 2-0 off a header from Pete Halkidis. Playing the short corner, Tamer Mohamed sent a perfect inswinging cross finding Halkidis to head the ball home. Recently named one of the three captains, Zachary Norwood would put the game out of reach on the night of his birthday. Ciklic played a wonderful ball to Norwood, who slotted the ball to the near post from 7 yards out to make it 3-0. Following the match, the “Crowning of the Champions” reception was held in the VIP room of LaValle Stadium. Championship rings were distributed to members of the 2005 America East championship team during the reception. “Remember, it is the memories that are going to count the most,” Markovic told the players. The Seawolves open the season on the road against Fairleigh Dicknson on Monday the 28th of August. |
