CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The visiting Rams of Suffolk University used two second half goals to defeat the MIT men's soccer team, 2-1, on Wednesday night on Roberts Field. 
 
THE BASICS: 

• Score: Suffolk 2, MIT 1 
• Records: MIT (2-4-2 Overall, 0-0-1 NEWMAC), Suffolk (4-2-2 Overall, 1-1CNE) 

HOW IT HAPPENED: 

• A pass from Dilin Meloni deflected off a Suffolk defender to Shikhar Motupally who went to the center of the field and sent a shot from almost 25-yards out into the net at 15:14. 
• Action picked up in the second half with Ian Caldwell turning away a Keegan Harrison scoring attempt at 48:42. 
• Hernando Ardila turned away back-to-back Suffolk shots to keep MIT in the lead. After a shot from Gianluca Balestrieri was saved, the Rams defense blocked back-to-back Engineer shots to keep it a one-goal game. 
• Another save by Caldwell on a Harrison shot attempt helped set up the Suffolk offense. Christian Gardner and Zach Vlachos helped to set up Mohamed Mehaya who got a pass in front of the goal and sent a header over Ardila at 71:20 to tie the match. 
• The Rams continued to pressure MIT and eventually broke through again when Mehaya got a defection off an MIT defender in front of the goal and put it past the keeper with just over two minutes remaining.   

INSIDE THE NUMBERS: 

• Motupally netted his third goal of the season. 
• Paolo Mangiafico got the start in goal for MIT and made two saves. Ardila suffered the loss to fall to 0-1-0 as he made two saves in net. 
• Caldwell turned away six shots to improve to 2-1-1. 
• Mehaya scored his fifth goal of the season.  

UP NEXT: 

• The Engineers take to the road as they travel to Coast Guard for a 12:00 PM NEWMAC contest on Saturday, September 27. The Rams will host Curry on Saturday 3:00 PM. 

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