THE BASICS:

- Score: MIT 22, U.S. Coast Guard Academy 16

- Records: MIT (4-2, 3-1 NEWMAC); U.S. Coast Guard Academy (5-3, 3-2 NEWMAC)

- Location: New London, Conn. (Cadet Memorial Field)

- The Lead: Sophomore Ashton Robinson (Louisville, Ky.) scored the go-ahead touchdown with 54 seconds left in the fourth to lift the MIT football team to a 22-16 road win over the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Saturday afternoon. The Bears had tied the game with 2:43 remaining before the Engineers came away with the eventual six-point win.

THE WAY IT HAPPENED:

- MIT got on the board first as junior Mark Wright (Fort Worth, Texas) converted a 28-yard field goal with 5:17 left in the first quarter, capping a 14-play, 65-yard drive. The Engineers added to the lead in the opening moments of the second period as junior Keithen Shepard (Vancouver, Wash.) pulled in a 31-yard touchdown pass from senior Chris Mauck (Wellington, Fla.) for the 9-0 halftime lead after the extra point was unsuccessful.

- The Bears got on the board with 5:32 left in the third quarter with Patrick Crowley knocking a 24-yard field goal through the uprights for the 9-3 score. With 11 seconds left in the third, Mauck ran it in from one yard out for MIT as the Engineers took a double-digit lead for the first time at 16-3.

- Coast Guard rallied with a two-yard touchdown by Chris Gardner early in the fourth, but the extra point try was blocked. The Bears did tie the game though with 2:43 on the clock as Ryan Jones scored on fourth and goal from the one to make it a 16-16 game. Jones made that drive possible as he busted out a 62-yard run on second down to move Coast Guard into the red zone at the MIT 20-yard line.

- After a punt by MIT's Jack Oswald (Calabasas, Calif.), the Bears fumbled the return and MIT took over at the Coast Guard 17-yard line after senior Jake Benoit (De Pere, Wis.) recovered the fumble. That field position set the Engineers up for the game-winning score as Robinson went in untouched off the left side for the win.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Robinson led the MIT rushing attack with 78 yards as the Engineers finished with 167 yards on the ground. Mauck completed 14 passes for 116 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for 28 yards and a touchdown. Shepard was the top receiver for MIT with six catches for 64 yards, while senior Sean Kent (Bend, Ore.) posted a team-high 10 tackles.

- For Coast Guard, Jones led the team with 66 rushing yards and 15 completed passes for 171 yards, while Justin Moffatt posted seven catches for 116 yards. Defensively, Eugene Bizer finished with 13 tackles that included nine solo stops.

UP NEXT:

- MIT returns home on Saturday, November 2nd as the Engineers host WPI for a Noon start.

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