POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Three unanswered goals in the final 25 minutes of the game gave the Marist men's soccer team a thrilling 3-2 comeback win over the defending America East Champion Albany Great Danes on Friday night at Tenney Stadium.

Summary:

The Great Danes opened the scoring with goals at the 15 and 50 minute marks, before the Red Foxes scored three in a row from sophomore David Nkansah-Siriboe, freshman Allen Gavilanes (his first career goal) and Nkansah-Siriboe again. Marist opened the scoring when a corner kick by Gavilanes was passed to junior Juan Parada on the right corner of the box who crossed the ball to the back post and onto the head of Nkansah-Siriboe who put it home. Gavilanes then tied it up 10 minutes later when a ball from sophomore Ernest Mitchell found the feet of junior Bruce Jeter who laid it back for Gavilanes who ripped a shot from the top of the box into the bottom left corner. Nkansah-Siriboe then scored the game winner with an absolute rocket of a shot from the right side of the box off a pass from Gavilanes in the 82nd minute.

Ranked in the Nation:

Albany entered the contest having been ranked #19 in the College Soccer News 2017 National Preseason Poll.

Inside the Numbers:

• Gavilanes enjoyed a night of firsts, scoring his first career goal and recording his first career assist.
• The Red Foxes did not record a shot on goal until their first goal in the 65^th minute and only had one shot in the game up to the point as well.
• Senior goalie Mark Rajovic recorded four saves on the night, while Albany goalie Lucas Valilo recorded zero saves in the loss.
• Marist was outshot in the first period 8-1 and outscored 1-0 before matching Albany in the second period in shots at 8-8 and outscoring the Great Danes 3-1.
• In the game Nkansah-Siriboe doubled his goal tally from 2016 (1 goal in 16 games), had one less shot on goal (2) than he did last season (3) and had more than half as many shots total (4) as in all of 2016 (7). 

Stat of the Game:
Albany outshot the Red Foxes 16-9 and 6-3 in shots on goal.

Quote:

"Obviously we showed a lot of character. That is a very good team we played against. That is a Top 25 team in my opinion. The fact that we could turn around the game down 2-0 and kept coming at them and fighting, I told the guys I was proud of them for that. This gives the team confidence. We had several starters out with injuries so we had some new guys in the lineup and this gives them confidence that they can play with really anybody." -- head coach Matt Viggiano.

Next Up:

Marist now heads out on a season long six game road trip with a matchup at the Hartwick Hawks on Tuesday, Aug. 29^th at 7 PM. The Red Foxes beat the Hawks 3-1 last year in the team's home opener. Hartwick finished 2016 at 9-6-4 and made it all the way to the Sun Belt semi finals before losing.