Opong joined teammate Hugo Bacharach as NEC Rookie of the Week award winners for the Knights, replicating his teammate's late-game heroics at LIU on Monday. After FDU rallied back from a 2-0 deficit with under ten minutes to play to send the game into overtime, the Brampton, Ontario native delivered the golden goal - the first of his career - in the 95th minute off a feed from Ideal Shefqeti.