Box Score BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The West Virginia University men's soccer team went on the road and earned its eighth clean sheet of the season with a 0-0 draw in double overtime at Bowling Green on Saturday night.
 
Freshman goalkeeper Steven Tekesky made a career-best three saves and picked up his second shutout of his career as the Mountaineers (7-3-4, 0-0-2 Mid-American Conference) earned a point in the MAC standings. WVU out-shot the Falcons (6-6-1, 0-1-1 MAC), 10-6, while West Virginia had two shots on goal.
 
"You go on the road, it's always going to be tough, and Bowling Green is a grind-it-out team, and they really made us grind tonight," WVU coach Marlon LeBlanc said. "We had a lot of the ball and a lot of good possession. We had two unbelievable chances there and just missed the frame and missed chances to score. I thought our approach was right, we put them under a lot of pressure and really limited them to set pieces and throw-ins. I thought we were in control of the game and just didn't take our chances very well tonight. It's a point on the road in a tough conference game, and we'll look to move forward, have a good week of training and get ready for one of the top teams in the country in Western Michigan at home at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on Friday."
 
Junior Rushawn Larmond and sophomore Pascal Derwaritsch both had a team-high-tying two shots and one shot on goal. Sophomore Ryan Kellogg also notched a pair of shots as WVU played in its fifth overtime contest.
 
Six of West Virginia's 10 shots came in the second half, while another three came in overtime. Bowling Green had two shots in the first half and six in the second before the Mountaineers held the Falcons to no shots in the overtime periods.
 
The game's first chance came in the third minute as a Bowling Green attacker sent a cross in from the near side, but the header in from near the edge of the six on the left side went wide. Tekesky followed with a nice save in the ninth minute on a shot in on a tight angle from the near side.
 
Larmond had the Mountaineers' first chance of the game in the 12th minute. However, as a dribbled into the box, the ball was poked away. On the ensuing corner kick, a cross in by sophomore Lucca Barbaris was headed out.
 
The Mountaineers' lone shot of the first half came in the 22nd minute, as Derwaritsch had a free kick opportunity from 30 yards out, but his chance in was blocked at the edge of the 18 and cleared out.
 
The Falcons had chances late in the first half, but each time WVU was able to clear it and prevent any good opportunity to put a ball on net.
 
Sophomore Sebastian Garcia-Herreros opened the second half with a header inside the 18, but it went wide in the 50th minute.
 
Bowling Green had a chance in the 63rd minute, but the hard, low ball in was directed right at Tekesky, who scooped it up for the save. Two minutes later, junior Jorge Quintanilla had a great opportunity to score the game's first goal, but after receiving a pass inside the 18, his shot from in front of the net went wide.
 
The home side found the momentum in the 68th minute, as Tekesky made a nice save on a header off a cross into the box. BG had several other chances inside the 18, but each time the WVU defense cleared the ball out of the box.
 
Kellogg had a chance blocked in the 77th minute off a corner kick. The Falcons followed with a great opportunity, but the shot from inside the six went high to keep it a scoreless match.
 
A minute later, Larmond had a shot saved, and senior Jad Arslan followed just seconds later with a shot from the left side six yards out that went just wide.
 
In the 86th minute, the Falcons had a great chance to score, but the shot from inside the six on a throw-in went high.
 
In the final minute of regulation, Derwaritsch sent a shot in from 20 yards out, but the Bowling Green keeper made the save to send the game into overtime.
 
The only great chance for either team in the first overtime came in the 98th minute, when BG had a corner kick. The ball was sent into the box, but the WVU defense did a nice job to clear it out of the box and then out of the Falcons' offensive zone.
 
Sophomore Ethan Shim had a good shot in the 104th minute, as he sent a shot in from 25 yards out on the near side, but the ball sailed just over the far corner of the net. Tekesky followed with a nice grab on a high ball into the box two minutes later to prevent the Falcons from having a chance.
 
The match ended as Larmond sent a shot wide as time expired.
 
West Virginia returns home for another matchup against a ranked opponent when it hosts No. 8 Western Michigan on Friday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. ET. Tickets are available at WVUGAME.com, 1-800-WVU GAME or on game day at the Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium ticket office. It is Social Media Night, and the team's social media accounts, @WVUMensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, will be giving away prizes all week, while, free t-shirts will be given out at the game, with instructions on how to win posted on social media next week.
 
Single game tickets for all of WVU's regular-season home matches are now on sale at WVUGAME.com or by calling 1-800-WVU GAME. The complete 2017 WVU men's soccer schedule, with match times, can be found here. All dates and times are subject to change, and fans are encouraged to stay tuned to WVUSports.com for updates.
 
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUMensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.