Mercado penalty kick lifts Old Westbury

Diego Mercado scored on a penalty kick with two minutes left to lift Old Westbury in a 4-3 win over St. Joseph's in a rematch of the 2009 Skyline mens soccer championship yesterday.

Anthony Ippolito scored two goals in the first half to give Old Westbury a 3-1 lead at the half. Pablo Diaz recorded five saves to improve for Old Westbury (3-0). St. Joseph's moves to 1-2 in conference.

Farmingdale State 2, NYU Polytech 1: Brian Anderson scored on a penalty kick with 8:00 left in the second overtime for Farmingdale State (1-2) in Skyline. Farmingdale tied the game with an own goal with 19:40 left in the second half.Southern New Hampshire University 2, Dowling 0:Jon Brockway scored on an assist from Michael Adam four minutes into the first to lead Southern New Hampshire (7-0-1). Dowling is 4-1-1. Jon Mayo recorded four saves for Southern New Hampshire and Chris Kucera made one save in the loss.St. Thomas Aquinas 3, Queens College 1:Jose Aguije scored in the 49th minute to give Queens (0-2 ECC) a 1-0 lead, but St. Thomas Aquinas (2-0) scored three straight goals over 41 minutes.WOMEN'S SOCCERSt. Joseph's (LI) 3, SUNY-Old Westbury 0:Erin Beach scored two goals and Sammie Garcia added one goal for St. Joseph's (3-0) in Skyline Conference play. Goalkeeper Michelle Gulino made seven saves for her seventh shutout of the season. Old Westbury drops to 2-1.Queens College 8, St Thomas Aquinas 1:Brittany Silipo and Melissa Cuartes each scored two goals to lead Queens College (2-0) over St. Thomas Aquinas (0-2) in an ECC game.Molloy 4, Dowling 3:Deomara Reece scored the game winner in the last minute of overtime to give Molloy (1-1) the win in ECC.WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALLNassau CC takes two. Alexa Borreson had 13 kills, three aces and four digs for Nassau CC (4-0) in a 25-18, 25-10, 25-9 Region XV win over Manhattan. In an earlier non-conference game, Angeline Zaharaias had eight kills, one ace and two digs for Nassau CC in a 25-9, 25-6, 25-7 win over Globe Tech.

FIELD HOCKEY

Adelphi 2, Franklin Pierce 1:Theresa Murphy scored with 1:44 remaining to give Adelphi (4-3) a 2-1 lead in non-conference. Jeanette Heimerle added a goal and an assist for Adelphi.

MEN'S GOLF

Farmingdale wins invite. Chris Arnold shot a tournament low 2-over 72 as the Farmingdale State men's golf team shot a 302 to capture its Invitational on Bethpage Red. The Rams' Adam Larkin tied for second with 73 with St. Joseph's Matt Ranum.