LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ – Babacar Diene (Thies, Senegal/CEM Ballabey) scored for the third-straight game as the Rider University men's soccer team played Marist to a 2-2 tie Saturday night on Ben Cohen Field. With the tie in the rematch of the 2021 MAAC Championship Game, which also ended in a 2-2 tie, Rider moves to 2-8-4 (1-3-3 MAAC), while the Red Foxes are now 6-6-2 (2-4-1 MAAC).

The game looked to have a promising beginning as the Broncs were awarded a penalty kick in the 17^th minute. But Adel Al Masude's (Brussels, Belgium/GO Lyceum Gent) was saved by Marist goalkeeper Sam Ilin. Equipped with momentum from the save, Marist broke through first in the 28^th minute, with Liam Salmon's ball down the right sideline to Jacob Schulman setting up his cross to Jared Juleau for the score from the left post. Rider would equalize in the 43^rd minute, as Guillaume Sarrabayrouse (Toulose, France/Pierre Paul Riquet) played the ball forward in the midfield to Nick Cruz (Monroe Township, NJ/Saint Joseph [Rutgers]) who sent a thru ball into the box for Diene, who tapped the ball around a charging Ilin, before knocking it into the uncontested goal.

Marist would retake the lead in the 53^rd minute, this time on a Schulman penalty kick after a handball in the box. But Rider would get the tally back in the 61^st minute when a Marist back played Lenny Cidolit's (Montpellier, France/Montpellier Univ.) cross into the Red Foxes net for an own goal. Neither team would score the rest of the way and the match ended in a draw.

Quotes & Notes
"I thought we hung in there. We went down twice, battled back. We've done that a lot this year and we've done that a lot in the past. I was proud. I think this is the second game in a row that we've outshot a team. Having had a stagnant offense for a good part of the year, we're scoring some goals in the last couple of games. We've got six goals in the last three games. But we can't keep conceding as well." – Rider Head Coach Charlie Inverso

- Rider leads the all-time series with Marist, 16-12-4. However, Marist had come out on top in each of the last three – two by victory and the third being a tie in the 2021 MAAC Championship Game and Marist advancing on PK's. The Broncs' last win over Marist on Ben Cohen Field came in 2013. Since then, Marist took wins in 2015 and 2019 and the two teams played to a tie in 2017.
- Guillaume Veinante (Bayonne, France/Faculte des métier de Rennes) made his 14th-straight start in net and made five saves.
- Veinante, Diene, Regis Dulck (Strasbourg, France/Univ. of Strasbourg), Cidolit, Jack McGeechan (Allendale, NJ/Northern Highlands Regional), Sarrabayrouse, Jeremy Peterson (Paris, France/University Paris Sorbonne), Tom Skrocki (Havertown, PA) and Al Masude each played all 90 minutes.
- Rider used just one player off the bench – Ryan Dougherty (Cranberry Township, PA/Seneca Valley [Lipscomb/St. John's]) for 21 minutes in the second half.
- Prior to the game, Rider honored its five-member senior class of Matthew Brummet (Dundalk, MD/Archbishop Curley [George Washington]), Cruz, Dougherty, Dulck and Peterson on Senior Night.
- Rider played without reigning MAAC Offensive Player of the Year Zaki Alibou (Meknes, Morocco/Meknes) for the 11th time in the last 13 games due to injuries.   

Broncs By The Numbers
- Diene scored for the third time in as many games and now has a team-leading three goals.
- Cruz registered a point for the second time in as many games after scoring a goal this past Wednesday against Mount St. Mary's.
- Sarrabayrouse registered his third assist of the season.
- Rider and Marist both took 11 shots, with the Red Foxes taking a 7-6 edge in shots on goal.
- Marist took four corner kicks to the Broncs' one.
- A relatively cleanly-played game until three yellow cards were issued in the final minute, Marist was shown three yellow cards to one for Rider in the contest.

Up Next
- The Broncs return to action Wednesday, when they travel to Siena for a 2 p.m. kickoff.