THE BASICS:
 
- Score: Wheaton - 3, MIT - 2
 
- Records: MIT (6-7-2, 4-3-1 NEWMAC), Wheaton (7-4-6, 5-1-2 NEWMAC)
 
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (Roberts Field)
 
- The Lead: In its last regular season home match, the MIT men's soccer team suffered a tough 3-2 setback to Wheaton on Saturday night on Roberts Field. With the loss, MIT secured the fourth seed in the NEWMAC and will host a quarterfinal match on Tuesday.
 
Before  the match the Engineers honored their five seniors: Garrett Robinson (Winfield, Ill.), Zachary Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Billy Menken (Woodbury, Minn.), Aidan Hallinan (Carlsbad, Calif.), and Lukas Hanson-Puffer (London, England).
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:

- Alberto Franceschi recorded his third goal of the season as he collected a loose ball in front of the MIT net and found the back of the net at 12:32.
 
- Graduate student Peter Novoa (Omaha, Neb.) found first-year Dilin Meloni (Needham, Mass.) who rifled a shot from outside the box into the left corner of the goal to even the match at 23:03.
 
- Wheaton scored two goals in the second half to go up 3-1. Ryan Bell sent a long pass down the field to Luke Strange at 58:52, and Strange lifted the ball over MIT goalkeeper Hanson-Puffer's outstretched hands. Franck Onguene beat out his defender for his first goal of the season at 75:26.
 
- Off a corner kick from sophomore Ethan Reich (New York, N.Y.), first-year Garrett Dyson (South Orange, N.J.) ran into the front of the goal and headed the ball into the back of the net at 83:33 to get the Engineers to within one, but MIT was unable to score again to tie the match as Wheaton escaped with the 3-2 win.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Meloni and Dyson each tallied their second goals of the season.
 
- Shots were even with both teams recording 12 in the match. MIT held a slight edge with nine shots on goal to Wheaton's eight.
 
- Wheaton held a 5-2 advantage in corner kicks.
 
- Hanson-Puffer made five saves and fell to 3-3-1. Michael O'Gara made seven saves for the Lyons.
 
UP NEXT:

- MIT will host Coast Guard in a NEWMAC Quarterfinal match on Tuesday, October 31 with the game time to be announced later in the week.
 
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