Brooklyn, NY --- The Brooklyn College Men's Soccer team will be playing in the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) Men's Soccer Championship final for the first time in school history, as the #2 seeded Bulldogs will take on top seeded Baruch College, tomorrow, Saturday, November 3rd at Randall's Island Field #10 at 7:00 pm.
The 2012 BC Men's Soccer team has had its most successful season in nearly two decades, as the Bulldogs enter the CUNYAC final with a 13-4-2 overall record. Brooklyn also went 5-1-2 in conference play to earn the #2 seed.
The Bearcats handed the Bulldogs their lone conference loss of the season, back on September 29th at Metropolitan Oval in Maspeth, NY when Baruch edged past Brooklyn 2-1. Since that loss, the Bulldogs have won eight straight games, including posting five straight shutouts.
Leading the way this season for BC has been senior forward
Pajtim Gjonbalaj, who leads the team in goals scored (10), assists (6) and points (26). Senior midfielder
Alwyn Adams has also contributed to the Brooklyn offense with eight goals and five assists for 21 points, while junior midfielder
Dmitry Prokofyev also has eight goals on the year, to go along with four assists for 20 points.
Junior midfielder Peterson Petit Frere has helped fuel an explosive Bulldogs offense tying for the team lead in assists with six, to along with three goals for 12 points. Brooklyn dynamic offense tops the CUNYAC in shots, points, goals, goals-per-game, assists and assists-per-game.
As solid as BC's offense has been, its defense has been just as impressive, posting 10 shutouts on the year, en route to ranking first in the CUNYAC in goals allowed, goals-against-average and shutouts.
Anchoring Brooklyn's defense has been the play of junior co-captain
Peter Vavalle, senior
Denton Laing, junior
Taras Frankivskyy and freshman
Steve Orellana.
Along with a stout defense, the Bulldogs have also had stellar play between the pipes in junior co-captain keeper
Stamatis Boundouris. Boundouris has played over 1488 minutes in goal this season, allowing just 16 goals, while recording 68 saves. He sports a 0.97 goals-against-average and a .810 save percentage, while registering six shutouts on the year.
Baruch is led by freshman sensation Oren Kozlowski, who has recorded 10 goals and three assists on the year for 23 points. Kozlowski came up big in the Bearcats' 2-1 win over the Bulldogs in the regular season, as he notched both goals.
Midfielder Christopher Peralta and defender Akil George have also had solid seasons for the Bearcats this year. Peralta has five goals and six assists for 16 points, while George has chipped in with four assists.
The winner of Saturday's championship final will receive the CUNYAC's automatic bid into the 2012 NCAA Division III Men's Soccer National Tournament.
Fans interested in attending the championship final tomorrow are encouraged to register for tickets in advance by visiting
http://cunyacsocchamps.eventbrite.com/#. Tickets are Free.