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William Howard holds onto a ball during game action at St. Bonaventure
Scott Eddy
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Canisius CAN (0-1-2, 0-0-0)
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St. Bonaventure SBUM (0-1-1, 0-0-0)
Canisius CAN
(0-1-2, 0-0-0)
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Final
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St. Bonaventure SBUM
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 OT 1 OT 2 F
Canisius CAN 0 2 0 0 2
St. Bonaventure SBUM 2 0 0 0 2

Game Recap: Men's Soccer |

Pair of Second Half Tallies Aid Men’s Soccer to Draw

Juniors Ryan Dagelman and Noah Hodson netted their first collegiate goals, avenging a pair of early St. Bonaventure tallies, as the Canisius men's soccer team played to a 2-2 draw Friday night from the Marra Athletics Complex in Olean, N.Y.
 
Luke Szablewski had an early scoring chance in the second minute, but St. Bonaventure's goalkeeper, Justyn Sandhu, made the stop.
 
St. Bonaventure peppered graduate transfer goalkeeper William Howard early in his first collegiate start, getting three shots on goal within the game's first 10 minutes.
 
Howard, who finished the contest with a career-high 10 saves, stopped a Francesco Caorsi header before the Bonnies were awarded a penalty kick following a yellow card inside the 18-yard box. The Canisius goalkeeper shoved aside Joshua Pulla's penalty shot before halting Cuneyt Vardar's rebound opportunity.
 
The Bonnies struck first in the 15th minute, taking advantage of a Canisius turnover in the Griffs' defensive third.
 
Pulla avenged his stopped penalty kick, scoring after Howard was displaced inside the penalty area. St. Bonaventure's shot split a pair of Canisius defenders attempting to block a shot.
 
Matthew Wrobel extended St. Bonaventure's lead in the 19th minute to 2-0, evading Howard inside the penalty box.
 
Dagelman scored his first collegiate tally in the 65th minute on a feed from Riley Wagner, who placed a high-arching ball over a pair of St. Bonaventure players deep in its defensive zone.
 
Hodson's game-tying tally came in the 77th minute as Sandhu stopped his first shot, but Hodson regained control of the ball and put the equalizer into the net. Freshman Reilly Boyer was credited with an assist on the goal, giving him his first collegiate point.
 
St. Bonaventure dominated possession in the first overtime period, as the Bonnies had three shot attempts and a pair of corner kicks.
 
In the second overtime period, the Bonnies were assessed a yellow card after a foul inside the 18-yard box and Canisius was given a penalty kick.
 
Canisius was mere inches away from claiming its first victory of the season, but Szablewski's penalty hit the right-most portion of the crossbar, bouncing back into the field of play.
 
A couple of minutes after his missed penalty, Szablewski had another scoring chance, but his shot went over the goal.

Head Coach Dermot McGrane's Postgame Comments
"I thought our performance in the first 25 minutes was abysmal and we basically gave our opponent two goals, but I was proud of the way the guys battled their way back into the game and I thought we were very strong in the second half. In the end, I thought we were very unlucky not to win the game."
 
GAME NOTES
• Friday night was the 51st meeting between the two Little Three rivals. St. Bonaventure continues to lead the all-time series, 25-18-8. Canisius is unbeaten in nine of its last 10 versus the Bonnies.
• The match was Canisius' third consecutive game needing overtime, the first time that has occurred since 2011.
• Friday's draw is the program's first such road match since Sept. 7, 2018, a scoreless draw at Bucknell.
• Canisius is now 46-11-3 when scoring multiple times under head coach Dermot McGrane and is 26-8-3 in such instances since 2015.
• Howard's save on the penalty kick was Canisius' first since Oct. 6, 2018, when Bryce Tramuta stopped Fairfield's Matt McGlinchey penalty.
• Howard's 10 saves are Canisius' first double-digit save performance since Tramuta also 10 saves at Iona (Sept. 29, 2018).
• Dagleman and Hodson's second-half tallies marked the third and fourth Canisius players who logged their first collegiate tallies this season.
• With his assist on Dagelman's goal, Wagner has a point in two straight games, giving him his first collegiate point streak.
• Canisius was awarded its first penalty kick since Sept. 21, 2018, in a match against Cornell.
 
UP NEXT
Canisius returns to the Demske Sports Complex for a meeting with Binghamton on Sept. 11. Slated kickoff time between the Bearcats and Griffs is 7 p.m.
 
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