Tie with Scots means a tie with the Hawks in the standings

NEWPORT, R.I. - Nolan Brady (Needham, Mass.) scored 10 minutes into the second half, tying the game at 1-1, and that's how the game ended 55 minutes later as Salve Regina University men's soccer finished in a 1-1 draw with Gordon College, the first deadlock of the season for both teams. Gordon (13-3-1; 6-1-1 CCC) remains atop the standings in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) while Salve Regina (7-8-1; 4-3-1 CCC) slipped into a tie for third with Roger Williams University.

The Seahawks hold the tiebreak advantage over the Hawks, with a 3-1 victory in Bristol two weeks ago, and Roger Williams travels to Gordon for its final regular season game on Wednesday.

Gordon took the early first half lead in this contest with a through pass from Caleb Cole (Coatesville, Pa.), the conference's leading scorer (11 goals, 2 assists, 24 points), to his sophomore classmate Aaron Terjanian (West Chester, Pa.) who got ahead of the Seahawk defense and left-footed the ball past Salve Regina keeper Daniel Stern (King's Park, N.Y.). Terjanian tallied for the third time this season.

Play got more physical following the Terjanian goal, with both Cole and Salve Regina's Issa Demirgioglu (Smithfield, R.I.) issued verbal warnings, but no cards assessed.

With the 1-0 lead into the break, Gordon held the advantage in corner kick opportunities, 7-2, and outshot the host school as well, 9-4. Switching sides aided the Seahawk cause in the second half with the prevailing wind at Stern's back.

Brady's goal came in the 54th minute; he converted a feed from senior Jake Weinshank (Chapel Hill, N.C.) after finding space just outside the top of the box on the left side.

Corner kicks were nearly even in the second half, 5-4 in favor of Gordon. Both schools had corner kick opportunities in the overtimes (2-1 Gordon) when attacking the north end goal.

Terjanian was issued a yellow card in the 85th minute, whistled for a foul in the first overtime, and removed from the game by his head coach, Derek Potteiger, shortly thereafter as a precaution against picking up a second yellow and automatic ejection.

Stern finished with six saves for Salve Regina while sophomore Josh Spoonhour (Greencastle, Pa.) stopped three Seahawk shots. The Scots, whose one league loss came at home against second-place Nichols College (5-1-2 CCC), needs a win against Roger Williams to secure the top spot in the standings for the conference playoffs starting next Saturday.

Salve Regina completes its regular season on Wednesday hosting Western New England University at 3 p.m.