ROLLA, Mo. –
Felipe Andrade (Belo Horizonte, Brazil/), one of five Miner seniors honored prior to Sunday's Great Lakes Valley Conference match with Missouri-St. Louis, scored on a penalty kick in the final minute of regulation time and Missouri S&T salvaged a 2-2 tie with the Tritons at Allgood-Bailey Stadium.
The Miners were awarded the penalty kick opportunity after a foul was called in front of the net on the Tritons with 48 seconds showing on the clock. Andrade converted the chance to knot the score, then the teams played through two overtime periods without another goal being scored.
S&T had the best scoring chance in the early moments of overtime, as
Mark Poindexter (Raymore, MO/Raymore-Peculiar) hit a shot off the goal post and
Trey Haman (St. Louis, MO/St. Louis University HS)'s effort to score on the rebound went just wide of the net.
The Miners got on the scoreboard first in the third minute of action when
David Murphy (Naperville, IL/Naperville Central) scored his team-leading sixth goal of the season on a shot from 18 yards away on the wing off an assist from
Unnar Ulfarsson (Gardabaer, Iceland/Fjolnir Reykjavik).
UMSL tied the game in the 17
th minute when Pat Ries scored on a breakaway, then the game remained tied until the 81
st minute when Ries struck again, this time after getting a lead pass from Nick Harper and cutting across the field to hit a long shot that beat S&T goalkeeper
Aaron Hohenstein (St. Louis, MO/Lutheran South).
The Tritons (5-6-3, 5-5-2 GLVC) outshot the Miners (6-5-2, 5-5-1 GLVC) 14-13 in the game; Hohenstein finished with five saves for S&T.
The tie leaves the Miners alone in eighth place in the GLVC standings with three games remaining on the schedule; the top eight teams will qualify for the conference tournament. Missouri S&T will play its next two games away from home, beginning with Friday's 7:30 p.m. match against McKendree in Lebanon, Ill., prior to a critical showdown next Sunday at Southern Indiana.
S&T will close its regular season slate at home Oct. 25 against Wisconsin-Parkside.