ROME, Ga.- Late game heroics from junior forward Tylor Davis brings Delta State University men's soccer team to a draw with a Shorter University on Friday evening. The goal from Davis came with just 30 seconds left in regulation. Neither team could manage to score in overtime to end the game in a tie.
 
THE BASICS:
Score: Delta State 2, Shorter 2
Records: Statesmen 3-3-1/0-2-1 GSC | Hawks 4-3-1/0-1-1 GSC
Series: Shorter leads the all-time series 5-2-1
Location | Time: Rome, Ga. | 6:30 p.m.
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HOW IT HAPPENED

• Shorter brought the pressure first with several shots in minutes.
• In the 31^st minute, goal keeper Matthew Klinck fouled a Shorter player in the box and Val Evans scored the penalty kick to take the lead.
• One minute in the second half, Komakur Thorsson scored on a corner kick taken by Tom Bar-Yosef to equalize the game.
• 67 minutes in the game Shorter retook the lead on a goal from Jackson Wheatley.
• In the final thirty seconds, Grant Foley fed a ball to Tylor Davis who scored to tie the game up.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• DSU had 10 shots with eight on goal while Shorter took 15 shots with 10 on goal.
• Delta State earned three yellow cards in a physical match.
• Shorter pushed the pressure and got caught offside four times in the game.
• Matthew Klinck had nine saves in the tie.

 
NOTABLES

• This is the first GSC tie since DSU and Union University tied 1-1 last October 5.
• This was the first tie between the Statesmen and the Hawks in the eight meetings.

UP NEXT
Delta State is on the road for on Sunday as well. They will take on Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, on Sunday at 2 PM.