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Women's Soccer Edged Late at RIT, 3-2

Tigers score in the 90th minute to complete comeback

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Box Score

ROCHESTER, NY – Junior Sierra Kiss scored with 51 seconds to play in regulation to give the No. 24 RIT (9-2-3, 4-1-1 Liberty League) women's soccer team a dramatic come-from-behind 3-2 win over Rensselaer (8-5-1, 3-3-0 Liberty League) in a critical Liberty League game from Tiger Stadium Saturday afternoon. Kiss scored off an assist from Ehlana Gray in the 90th minute to extend her goal-scoring streak to six games.

Shots were 12-7 in favor of RIT, while Rensselaer took seven corner kicks to three for the Tigers. Amanda Murray picked up her eighth win of the season in net for RIT, making three saves. Alex Scholz took the loss for Rensselaer, making three saves.

RIT trailed twice in the match, erasing two one-goal deficits. Taylor Korytko gave the Engineers a 1-0 lead on her goal in the 9th minute off an assist from Shelby Stromerson. Korytko headed a service from Stromerson into the far corner of the RIT net for the early RPI lead.

Freshman Anka Parzych equalized for RIT in the 39th minute off an assist from Kiss. Parzych played Kiss out on the flank with a ball. Kiss dribbled around her defender and found herself 1-v-1 with Scholz. Kiss served a ball over to Parzych who was making the run, and she tapped home the pass for her third goal of the season.

Rensselaer answered right back with a goal less than two minutes later, taking a 2-1 lead. Sara Rothschild scored off an assist from Kasey Murphy in the 40th minute to give the Engineers the lead back.

The Engineers had a great chance to go up 3-1 early in the second half when Cori Winslow found herself 1-v-1 with Murray in front of the RIT net. Murray stood tall and made the save, deflecting the shot away with her hand, keeping it the lead at one.

In the 69th minute, freshman Caitlyn Daly gave the Tigers the jolt they were looking for, scoring from 30 yards out. She free and ripped a shot that found its way over the outstretched hands of Scholz and into the RPI net, tying the score at 2-2. It was Daly's first collegiate goals, and came at the perfect time for the Tigers.

That set up the dramatic finish for Kiss and the Tigers. Gray got around her defender and drove down the left flank. She sent a perfect early service into the Engineers penalty area, that Kiss ran onto and deflected home with her toe to give RIT its first lead of the game.
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