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Maspeth, NY (Sept. 12, 2011) – The Purchase College men's soccer team provided a late-game equalizer to walk away from Monday night's contest with host John Jay College locked in a 2-2 tie.

The stalemate snaps the Bloodhounds' six-game losing streak to start the season. They are now 0-6-1 overall, while Purchase is 0-1-1, bouncing back from an opening game defeat in a nice all-around effort at Metropolitan Oval.  

"The team showed a tremendous amount of character today in getting a very deserved tying goal with just seconds remaining in regulation," said Purchase head coach James Quiroga. "We outplayed a good John Jay team for long stretches of the game, but had a brief letdown in the second half to allow them to score two goals.”  

Purchase and John Jay marched into halftime scoreless, with the first 45 minutes highlighted by some incredible defensive plays. Both teams showed their tenacity in the early season, non-conference matchup.

The Panther would strike first. Newcomer Blaise Bourgeois (SO/Rochester, NY) broke the scoreless tie in the sixty-third minute. Bourgeois, who was named to the league honor roll last week for player of the week, took a game-high eight shots and continued his great start to the fall campaign.

The Bloodhounds evened the score 5:10 later on a goal by Anthony Estevez.

Then John Jay took the lead in the seventy-fifth minute as Navid Allah Morad put one in the back of the net.

John Jay carried that lead all the way into the final minute of play. However, the Bloodhounds, who were whistled for 16 fouls in the second half, were called for one inside the box leading to a penalty kick inside the final 30 seconds.

Bourgeois proceeded to make the penalty kick and send the game into overtime.

“We never gave up and had about six or seven chances in the last 10 minutes of regulation before getting the PK called that Blaise blasted home,” Quiroga noted.
In the extra sessions, the two teams went toe-to-toe, but neither side could find the goal.

Vitecha Kochaon made three saves in the tie for the Bloodhounds, while David Kurzweil (SR/Bedford Park, NY) stopped eight shots for the Panthers.

Quiroga also credited the Panther backline of Shomari Dias (SR/West Hempstead, NY), David Buckingham (SO/Clayville, NY), Dan Villegas (SO/Queens, NY) and Abraham Parajes (SO/Port Chester, NY), "who were solid throughout the match and made it very difficult for John Jay to penetrate into our final third.  Most of their shots were from far distance."

-John Jay Sports Information Contributed to this report