The Middlebury men's soccer team scored twice in the final 10 minutes of Tuesday's match to counter a second-half surge and outlast Vassar 4-2 on South Street Field.
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• With 9:32 gone in the initial half, Will Sawin sprinted into the box and drew contact from Vassar goalie Patrick Gale to earn a chance from the penalty spot. The Panther buried his bid into the lower-left corner to push the hosts ahead 1-0.
• Sawin nearly struck again in the 15th minute. Gavin Randolph tracked down a long ball on the sideline and found Sawin in the box, whose attempt clipped the right post and went out of play.
• The Brewers' best chance of the session came with 23:09 before the break. Mauricio Mejia created space to his right and dialed up a look to the lower-center portion of the goal. Middlebury goalie Joey Waterman dropped to his right to smother the shot.
• With 38:40 expired, Ari Klayman secured the rebound of a long throw-in to the box and fired a curving shot. Gale leaped to punch it away and maintain the 1-0 score through 45 minutes.
• The hosts added their second tally in the 49th minute. Owen Davis delivered a looping ball toward the box that found Anderson Gardner breaking through the Vassar back line. Gardner tapped a dribbler into the bottom-left corner for the 2-0 score.
• The visitors created a solid scoring opportunity with 68:36 elapsed. Arden Tobolski tried to sneak a bid from the left side of the box to the right corner. An extended Waterman got his cleat to the ball to deny the chance.
• Vassar broke through with 76:04 elapsed. Hotz cut to his left in the box and flicked the ball to Diego Pastor-Valverde, who found the lower-right corner from 18 yards to cut the deficit to 2-1.
• The Brewers knotted the match at 2-2 less than three minutes later. Tobolski struck a bid toward the lower-left netting off a feed from Jared Fiske to tie the tilt at the 78:56 mark.
• Hamin Kim recorded the eventual match-winner with 84:14 played. A corner delivery bounced off two heads before falling to Randolph. The Panther set up Kim, who directed a dart past an outstretched Gale and into the center of the goal for the 3-2 advantage.
• Sawin capped the scoring with 23 seconds left, settling a feed from Eduardo Casanova in transition and chipping in his second goal of the contest for the 4-2 final.

NOTES

• Kim recorded his first marker and game-winner as a Panther.
• Sawin posted his second multi-goal effort of the campaign.
• Davis distributed his first helper of the year and Waterman made a season-high six saves in the wild win.
• The programs squared off for just the third time with Middlebury owning a 2-0-1 edge in the all-time series.

Middlebury concludes its three-match homestand with the annual Hedley Reynolds Cup against Bates on Saturday at noon.