City Islanders defeat Bucknell, 3-0
Published on March 29, 2006 under United Soccer League Championship (USL)
Penn FC News Release
(Hershey, Pa., March 29, 2006)- Taffarie Lang, Derek Potteiger and Steve Fisher scored as the Harrisburg City Islanders defeated Bucknell University 3-0 in their preseason opener on Wednesday night at Hersheypark Stadium. Dave Kern went the distance in goal for the City Islanders, who play their second preseason game this Saturday against Long Island University, also at Hersheypark Stadium (2:00 p.m. kickoff).
Laing, a native of Jamaica and 2002 grad of Fairleigh Dickinson, accounted for the game's first goal just minutes into the second half of play. After defender Tommy Rutter's long ball rattled through Bucknell's backline, Laing ran onto it and drove a low ball through the keeper for a 1-0 Harrisburg lead.
Potteiger, the team's captain, put the City Islanders up 2-0 some 40 minutes later. Rutter and trialist midfielder Abraham Martinez (San Diego State) worked the ball into the right corner, where Martinez swung in a far-post cross that missed his target. But an errant Bucknell clearance bounced to Potteiger, who half-volleyed the ball into the net with his left foot.
Fisher (Hershey High School/Lehigh University) finished the night's scoring just before the final whistle, when he settled a Matt Tanzini service and rifled it home with his left for the 3-0 finish.
Notes: Harrisburg used 25 different players in the match, which was played in 50-minute halves...The only players currently under contract to the club who did not play were midfielder David Schofield and forward Jamel Mitchell...Midfielder Justin Sadler (Cumberland Valley High School/Akron University) played the entire first half...Midfielder David McClellan, who won back to back national titles at Messiah College and was named the 2005 Division III Player of the Year, took the field late in the first stanza.
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