THE BASICS:
 
- Score: MIT - 2, Emerson - 2
 
- Records: MIT (6-4-2, 4-0-1 NEWMAC), Emerson (7-4-3, 0-3-1 NEWMAC)
 
- Location: Boston, Mass. (Rotch Field)
 
- The Lead: After the MIT men's soccer team took a 2-0 lead, Emerson responded with two goals to tie the match as the two NEWMAC rivals played to a 2-2 draw on Saturday afternoon on Rotch Field.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:

- Junior Nathan Guntvedt (Santa Clara, Calif.) found graduate student Peter Novoa (Omaha, Neb.) for the early goal at 9:54.
 
- The Engineers increased their lead to two on the sixth goal of the year from Garrett Robinson (Winfield, Ill.) at 48:21.
 
- Emerson began its comeback when Aaron Tyler set up Aidan Ferguson for the goal at 69:53. Just over a minute later at 70:44 a Thomas Pelino goal tied the match at two.
 
- MIT put three shots on net in the final minutes as they looked for the winning score, but Beckett Hobbs stopped them all as the match ended in a 2-2 tie.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Robinson increased his team-leading point total to 16.
 
- Novoa scored his third goal on the year while Guntvedt recorded his second assist.
 
- Senior Lukas Hanson-Puffer (London, England) moved to 3-2-1 with four saves in the match.
 
- Hobbs turned away nine Engineer shots.
 
- Emerson outshot MIT 14-11, but the Engineers got all 11 shots on target while the Lions put six on cage.
 
- Both teams earned six corner kicks.  
 
UP NEXT:

- MIT has the week off before returning to action on Saturday, October 21st when the Engineers will travel to Babson Park to take on the No. 8 Babson Beavers at 1 p.m.
 
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