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ITHACA, N.Y. – The UC Santa Barbara men's soccer team (3-2-1) led twice in its contest at Cornell, but the Big Red fought back thanks to a pair of penalty kicks in regulation and a game-winning header from a corner kick in double overtime to defeat UCSB 4-3 on Sunday at Berman Field.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Cornell's Tyler Bagley scored a picture-perfect top-corner goal off his right foot outside the box in the 16^th minute, putting the Big Red ahead 1-0 early.
• Freshman forward Salvador Aguilar tied things up shortly after in the 21^st minute, with his shot chipping over Cornell goalkeeper Brady McSwain into goal after it deflected off a defender's shin. The goal was assisted by junior forward Nemo Philipp.

Salvador Aguilar scored his first career regular season goal with a deflected shot that chipped over the goalkeeper to make it 1-1 in the 21st minute#GoGauchos pic.twitter.com/wo0xyiTeTy

— UCSB Men's Soccer (@UCSBMensSoccer) September 13, 2021

• The next goal didn't come until after halftime when Lucas Gonzalez capped off a wonderful nine-pass back-to-front sequence by the UCSB team that started with junior midfielder Sam Fletcher, was controlled by senior center backs Carson Vom Steeg and William Gillingham, then passed along the left wing in front of the Gaucho bench before Philipp played the final pass to redshirt freshman defender Lucas Gonzalez, who smashed a low driven effort into the right side of goal.

Nemo Philipp notches his second assist of the night as he helps Lucas Gonzalez cap off a nine-pass sequence for his own first career goal early in the second half!#GoGauchos pic.twitter.com/TJoAy70XeG

— UCSB Men's Soccer (@UCSBMensSoccer) September 13, 2021

• The Gauchos gave up a penalty kick in the 70^th minute and Cornell's Tyler Bagley made no mistake picking out the bottom left corner beyond the reach of UCSB goalkeeper Leroy Zeller for his second of the night.
• In the 79^th minute, the Gauchos went back ahead on a long ball from freshman forward Rene Pacheco in the UCSB half all the way to Cornell's final third, where sophomore attacker Finn Ballard McBride zoomed past his man to latch onto the end of the pass and score into an empty net, catching McSwain mispositioned after attempting to get to the ball first.

Friday night's game-winning goalscorer Rene Pacheco assists Finn Ballard McBride on a long ball over the top that the Aussie hunts down and tucks away to put UCSB ahead late in regulation#GoGauchos pic.twitter.com/nkkfDGrqJ1

— UCSB Men's Soccer (@UCSBMensSoccer) September 13, 2021

• UCSB conceded another penalty in the 85^th minute, and this time it was the Big Red's Harry Fuller who placed it into the bottom right corner, with Zeller again guessing correctly but being just inches away from saving it.
• Cornell won the game on a golden goal in the 103^rd minute when Bagley delivered a corner from the left side and Henry Hylbert headed it towards the back of the Gaucho net.

NOTABLE

• Cornell outshot UCSB 17-8 overall and 7-4 in shots on target.
• UCSB committed a season-high 19 fouls in the loss.

QUOTABLE

• "Of course it's disappointing. We were seven minutes away from drawing or finding a way to win the game, but this was a good team we played against tonight – they're probably going to win the Ivy League. And we have a good group, a talented attacking team that just put up three goals on a team that doesn't give up goals very often." – UCSB head coach Tim Vom Steeg on tonight's match
• "You put your team in a difficult situation like this [during non-conference play]. Because it's an east coast trip and it's a Friday/Sunday pair of games - it's hard to win. To put ourselves in a position twice [on this road trip] to try and win the game, it's certainly what you're looking for if you're trying to win later in the season at UC Davis, Riverside, Fullerton. It's why you do these trips and try to play away [from home]." – Tim Vom Steeg on how lessons learned from non-conference away trips will help the Gauchos down the line
• "There's the ongoing theme of us having moments in games that are really, really, good, and then we have moments in games where we're missing passes and making individual mistakes – those are the areas where you go to practice, look at film, and try to fix them. I'm hoping that over time, we have longer periods of time where we're in control of the game and we can move around and be dominant and make it through times of the game where we don't have as much control." – Tim Vom Steeg on the Gauchos' bright spots and areas of improvement

NEXT UP

• UCSB returns home to face LMU on Friday night at 7:00 p.m. The game will be streamed and live stats will be available on UCSBGauchos.com with the "Voice of the Gauchos" Gerry Fall on play-by-play and Ben Callon on color commentary duties.

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