Salmon Adds To List Of Weekly Accolades
Sep 23 | Men's Soccer
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers junior Yannick Salmon (Westbury, N.Y.) of the men’s soccer team was named the NSCAA and ECAC Player of the Week it was announced Wednesday. Salmon was recognized by the BIG EAST Conference and College Soccer News with Player of the Week honors earlier in the week.
“I didn’t expect to get all those awards, but it’s always good to be recognized in a nice way,” said Salmon. “But like I said before, if the team didn’t play as well as they did, I wouldn’t have scored those goals so it should be a team award.”
Salmon led the Scarlet Knights (4-2, 2-0 BIG EAST) to a 2-0 record over the weekend, scoring two game-winners as RU downed Providence in double overtime and came from behind to defeat Connecticut in BIG EAST action.
Rutgers and Providence went back and forth in its matchup on Friday with the Scarlet Knights striking first for a 1-0 lead, 50 seconds into the second half. The Friars tied the game at one with a goal in the 60th minute, sending the contest into extra time. With just over a minute remaining in the second overtime period, RU found the game winner as sophomore Bryant Knibbs (Pine Bush, N.Y.) sent a throw into the box where Salmon was able to get a head on it and flick it into the back of the net.
Against Connecticut, Rutgers fell behind early as the Huskies notched the game’s first score in the 10th minute. In his most prolific offensive performance of his collegiate career to date, Salmon tallied the equalizer and the game-winner in a seven-minute span as the Scarlet Knights came from behind to top UConn.
Salmon converted on a penalty kick in the 61st minute to tie the game and followed with a stellar display of technical skill as he beat a number of Connecticut defenders across the face of the goal and drilled a strike past Huskies goalkeeper Josh Ford for the winner.
Primarily a defensive player in his first season with the Scarlet Knights, Salmon had not scored a collegiate goal until the season-opener against Towson (Sept. 1), however, this season he moved into a bigger role in the attacking third and it has paid dividends for Rutgers. He has a team-best four goals on the year, including three in the past two games.
Rutgers will play a pair of road conference matches at Seton Hall on Friday, Sept. 25 and Georgetown on Sunday, Sept. 27, before returning to Yurcak Field against Syracuse on Friday, Oct. 2.
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