Box Score
 
NEWARK, NJ—There was little to separate NJIT and visiting Fordham in men's soccer Saturday and the teams played to a 1-1 tie through 110 minutes on Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.
 
Both teams are 2-2-1 after the double overtime match that was played on a cool overcast day with intermittent mist and rain,
 
The Rams scored their goal in the first half and the Highlanders leveled things late in the second half before the teams played another half hour to end in the tie.
 
Freshman Jannik Loebe got the Rams on the board with his first college goal in the 29th minute. Loebe received a pass from senior Andres Penfold, who had carried to the left of the penalty spot. Penfold flicked a short pass farther left to Loebe, whose short ground shot went between the legs of Christian Foust as the NJIT keeper was dropping into a split in a bid to cut off the angle on the short try.
 
NJIT drew even in the 80th minute on a header by senior Marko Drljic, assisted by freshman Phillip Costa. The rookie earned his first college assist after a hard run with the ball down the left wing. Slowing down in the left corner, he centered a text book cross to Drljic on the door step. So precise was the pass that Drljic did not need to leave his feet to head it in.


 
Reflecting the scoreboard, the shots were close, with Fordham holding a slight 18-16 lead in total attempts and a 6-5 advantage in shots on goal.
 
Each goalkeeper, Fordham senior Sean Brailey and Foust, the NJIT sophomore, posted identical lines of 110 minutes played, four saves and one goal allowed. The Highlanders also had a "team save" on a Fordham shot into an open net that was re-directed by sliding sophomore defender Jonathan Onyeaka.
 
The best early chance came in the 14th minute when Fordham's Penfold managed to stay onside and then run onto a long pass. Finding himself one-on-one with NJIT's Foust, who came off his line, Penfold was stopped twice. First, Foust came off his line and made a sliding save at Penfold's feet. However, Penfold, kept going forward and got off another shot that was kept out of the open goal by Onyeaka, who came back into the play and slid at an angle, clearing the spinning ball backward and out of play over the end line.
 
Trailing 1-0, NJIT strung together a pair of quick passes on a break in the 55th minute, but Danny Cordeiro's angling shot went wide and lost steam along the wet surface. A charging Eugene Listwan tried to run onto the ball at the far post, but it went over the line just out of his reach.
 
Drljic, the eventual goal scorer for NJIT, hit the post in the 72nd minute, firing from an extreme angle and hitting the near post high from outside the box on right wing.
 
Seven minutes into overtime, Fordham took two dangerous shots in a flurry, but Foust was equal to the task, stopping both. First, Ole Sanchez hit a hard shot from the left side of the box that Foust stopped without controlling it. Mike McNamara was there on the rebound, but Foust made a second deflection and then dove forward to cover up.


 
NJIT, which has played two matches of a five-game home stand, is slated to host LIU Brooklyn on Wednesday at 7 pm on Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.