Goal: Enstice, 24’

Goal: Enstice, 55’

 

Goal: Swiatkowski, 34’

 

In a statement victory, Nichols won on the road against their rivals from Kenmore, St. Joe’s, improving to 5-2-1 overall and 2-0-1 in the league. It was a back-and-forth game for most of the eighty minutes, both sides driving deep into opponent territory, the game progressing like a tennis match. Such equality also describes the scoreline at halftime: one score all. But Tommy Enstice, the slight sophomore left-winger who scored the Vikings’ first goal in the twenty-fourth minute, netted a second in the fifty-fifth; that would prove to be the game-winning score. Enstice scored his fourth and fifth goals of the season, taking the team lead. The offense has continued to tick even with star striker Jesse Adamu lost to injury, with Enstice and sophomore right-winger Anthony Rambino driving up the flanks of a rotating cast of forwards. A road victory against a team that beat Canisius on its home field, 2-1, just last week, bodes well for the team’s future. As confident as possible, the boys will return to the corner of Amherst and Colvin for their homecoming game against McKinley on Friday.