Manhattan Clinches Number Two Seed For MAAC Championship With Draw

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Hamden, CT - Manhattan fought back to earn a 1-1 draw at Quinnipiac and in the process secured the No. 2 seed for the upcoming MAAC Championship to be contested at Disney.
 
The Jaspers are now 8-6-2 and 6-2-1 in the MAAC while the Bobcats are 7-6-3 and 4-2-3 in the league.

Quinnipiac struck first in the opening stanza when Ally Grunstein found the back of the net in the 40th minute.

Manhattan quickly responded in the 53rd minute when junior Emma Saul (Orchard Park, NY / Orchard Park) scored her third goal of the season off a nifty feed from senior Erica Modena (Massapequa, NY / Massapequa).

The teams would battle the rest of the second half and through both overtimes but neither team could break through.

Sophomore Olivia Printy (Ponta Vedra Beach, FL / St. Joseph Academy) made four saves in 110 minutes of action in moving to 2-2-1 on the year.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
- All six match-ups between the teams since Quinnipiac entered the MAAC in 2013 have been decided by one goal or less.

- Manhattan leads the all-time series by a 4-3-1 count, including going 2-2-1 in Hamden.

- Modena, Saul and sophomore Arianna Montefusco (Levittown, NY / General Douglas MacArthur) have now combined for 17 of the Jaspers' 28 goals and 13 of their 21 assists.

- Modena's currently has 72 points and 12 assists for her career and has now recorded at least one point in seven of her eight MAAC games.

- Saul has three goals in her last five matches.

- Manhattan is now 1-0-2 when playing in Connecticut this season, twice fighting back from early one-goal deficits to earn draws.

- The Jaspers have yielded just one goal or less in 11 of their 16 matches.

- Monmouth captured its fifth MAAC Regular Season Championship with a 2-0 win over Fairfield. 

UP NEXT
- Manhattan will host Rider on Saturday, October 21 at 1:00 pm with Senior Day festivities taking place prior to the match.