The 11th-seeded Bayside boys soccer team puts its late-season troubled behind with an impressive opening-round, 8-2 home win over No. 22 New Dorp of Staten Island to kick off the PSAL Class A playoffs.
JP Bello scored twice and added an assist, Andrew Levy had a goal and three helpers and Sanawullah Shairzai had a hat trick, tripling his regular-season amount. Sophomore keeper Constantine Pougiouklidis, healthy after missing the last three games, made eight saves.
“I thought we played very well,” Bayside coach Joe Corrado said. “We got goals from guys who don’t necessarily usually score goals. It was an all-around effort. We moved the ball well.”
Corrado said the slide late in the year was much ado about nothing. The loss to Cardozo on Columbus Day came with several starters missing in action. The setback to John Bowne was a case of several missed opportunities.
The Commodores (9-3-1) will have to be sharp on Thursday, when it takes on No. 6 Beacon, last season’s runner up who beat No. 27 Brooklyn Tech, 8-0, on Saturday. The last time the two sides met, the Blue Demons prevailed, 3-1, in the quarterfinals two years ago.
“It’s a tough one, it should be a very good game, we have a lot of respect for Beacon,” Corrado said. He later added: “I like where we are right now. We’re playing the best soccer we’ve played all year.”
Tottenville 3, DeWitt Clinton 0: Nick Bacarella and Carlo Coladonato each had a goal and an assist and keeper Damien Vuotto made 12 saves for No. 4 Tottenville. The Pirates (13-1-1) will meet the No. 13 Erasmus Hall-No. 20 Lincoln winner on Thursday. DeWitt Clinton is 4-5-4.
Stuyvesant 2, Cardozo 1: Drake Berglund had a goal and an assist and Cody Levin scored once for No. 10 Stuyvesant (8-3-2), who faces either seventh-seeded John Adams or No. 26 Boys & Girls on Thursday. Cardozo is 5-5-3.
CLASS B
Bard 2, Hunter College HS 0: Alex Muyl and Spencer Brown each scored and Sam Embry made eight saves for the clean sheet for No. 4 Bard (12-0-1) in the opening round of the PSAL Class B playoffs. The Raptors meet the winner of No. 13 LaGuardia-No. 20 Grand Street Campus on Tuesday. No. 29 Hunter College HS completed its season at 5-5-3.
Manhattan Center 1, Adlai Stevenson 0: Richard Bempong scored a goal, Omar Galindo had the assist and Melvin Lopez made four saves for No. 3 Manhattan Center (13-0-0), who faces No. 19 James Monroe on Tuesday at Randall’s Island. Adlai Stevenson is 8-7-0.
James Monroe 2, Lafayette 1: Trimar Shorey and Eric Hungria each scored a goal as No. 19 James Monroe upset 14th-seeded Lafayette (9-5-1). The Eagles (10-4-1). face No. 3 Manhattan Center on Tuesday.
Queens Vocational Tech 4, Transit Tech 0: Ozan Cetinkaya, the city’s second leading scorer during the regular season, had a hat trick for eight-seeded Queens Vocational Tech. The Tigers (13-1-1) face either No. 9 New Utrecht or No. 24 Bushwick on Tuesday. Transit Tech is 7-5-3.
School of the Future 1, Leon Goldstein 0: Javon Perry tallied the match’s lone goal and Max Mansfield had the assist for 12th-seeded School of the Future (10-2-1), who meets the No. 5 Thomas Jefferson-No. 28 Washington Irving winner on Tuesday. No. 21 Leon Goldstein is 8-6-1.
George Westinghouse 2, George Washington 0: Shamar Campbell and Jason Chippy each found the back of the net once and keeper Caron Nazario made five saves for No. 22 George Westinghouse (9-6-0), who faces the No. 6 Riverdale/Kingsbridge-No. 27 Jamaica winner on Tuesday. Eleventh-seeded George Washington is 9-3-1.
OTHER SCORES
John Bowne 2, Tilden 0
FDA 2, Arts & Business 1
New Utrecht 4, Bushwick 2
