WALTHAM, Mass. – In their final regular-season home game today, the Brandeis University men's soccer team battled the visiting University of Rochester to a scoreless draw after 110 minutes of action on Senior Day. With the draw, Brandeis moves to 5-7-3 overall on the season, 2-2-2 in the University Athletic Association, while UR moves to 8-3-4, 2-3-1 UAA.

Rochester started the game on the front foot, outshooting Brandeis, 6-2, in the first half, and forcing Brandeis junior Aiden Guthro (Newburyport, Mass./Newburyport) to make the first two of his six saves on the day. He denied Tony Hypsher in the seventh minute and Tommy Nelson in the 39^th. Guthro's shutout was his fifth of the season.

From there on, the game was all Brandeis, as they outshot Rochester 20-6 the rest of the way. Rochester's Santino Lupica Tondo made 10 saves to keep the Yellowjackets' sheet clean. In the 53^rd minute, he came off the line to deny Judge first-year Gabriel Haithcock (Macon, Ga. / IMG Academy), then recovered in time to keep fellow rookie Eli Mones (Portland, Ore. / Grant) from scoring. In overtime, Brandeis senior Isaac Mukala (Malden, Mass. / Lawrence Academy), one of the heroes of Friday night's 3-2 win over Emory, was denied twice on good scoring opportunities by Lupica Tondo.

With the draw, Brandeis moved to 3-2-3 in overtime this season, while Rochester is now 1-1-4 in extra time. This was the first tie between the two teams since 2012 and snapped a three-game winning streak in the series by the Yellowjackets.

Before the game, Brandeis honored its nine seniors who were making their final regular-season home appearances. They are:

                Midfielder Evan Glass (Boxford, Mass./Masconomet Regional);

                Midfielder Michael Burch (Glastonbury. Conn./Suffield Academy);

                Midfielder Jake Davis (Cardiff, Calif./San Dieguito Academy);

                Midfielder Jared Panson (West Windsor, N.J. / Pennington School);

                Back Isaac Mukala (Malden, Mass. / Lawrence Academy);

                Midfielder Noah Gans (Newton, Mass./Newton South);

                Midfielder Skylah Dias (Swansea, Mass./Joseph Case);

                Midfielder Tim Bombeli (Zurich, Switzerland / IMG Academy);

                And forward Sammy Guttell (Brookline, Mass. / Brookline).

Brandeis will wrap up its regular season next Saturday at NYU in a 1:30 p.m. start.