Box Score After 110 minutes of play and two overtimes, the Spring Hill College men's soccer began the 2016 regular season with a 1-1 non-conference draw with the visiting Missouri S&T Miners at Library Field on Friday afternoon.

The Miners (0-0-1) opened the scoring with an unassisted shot into the left side of the net from straight on by Felipe Andrade in the 20th minute of play.

Spring Hill then rallied in the second half as the two newest Badgers teamed up for the tying score when graduate student Ryan Elder of Auckland, New Zealand, lifted a long entry pass from the left sideline into freshman Donte Oliver of New Orleans, La., who made a nifty lunging foot-tap of the ball into the right side of the goal under pressure in the 68th minute.

Senior Badger goalkeeper Will Carpenter (0-0-1) of Daphne, Ala., went the entire 110 minutes with four saves against 11 shots by S&T while his counterpart, Aaron Hohenstein (0-0-1) of the Miners, collected two saves against 10 shots by SHC. The aggressive Miner offense racked up eight offsides with 17 fouls and one warning as the Badgers were offsides once with 14 fouls and one warning. From the corners, SHC took three attempts and S&T took five corner kicks.

"The score was a good reflection of the game as a whole," said SHC head coach Steve Wieczorek. "I thought S&T was the better team in the first half and we played better in the second half. The overtimes were basically a coin flip with neither team coming up big." Wieczorek, however, was not unsatisfied with the outcome. "This draw was a good start for us considering that we were unable to get our preseason scrimmages in [due to weather] and they already had a few under their belt," he said. "Again, this outcome was a good reflection of where we stand right now."

The Badgers (0-0-1) will next travel to Tampa, Fla., to face the University of Tampa Spartans on Sunday in a non-conference contest beginning at 11 a.m. (EST) at Pepin Stadium. Since 2004, the Badgers are 0-3 versus Tampa including a 2-1 downturn in Mobile in 2015.