AMHERST, MA - The Amherst College men's soccer team suffered a narrow 3-2 overtime loss to visiting 25th-ranked NESCAC rival Bowdoin College on Saturday. Junior striker Mike Wohl (Northampton, MA) and rookie Jake Duker (Newton, MA) both notched their first goals of the season for the Jeffs.

The Polar Bears opened the scoring at the 10:23-mark, as junior midfielder John Hollis (Worcester, MA) headed home a corner kick from classmate Anthony Regis (Topsfield, MA). Amherst responded 16 minutes later when first-year defender Grayson Holland (Sudbury, MA) sent a long ball up the field and Wohl, taking it out of the air in the midst of three defenders, volleyed it into the upper left corner of the net to even the score. The Jeffs kept the pressure on, finding the back of the net again just five minutes later when Duker converted a John Kneeland (Holden, MA) throw-in and drilled a right-footed rocket into the lower right corner, to give Amherst a 2-1 edge heading into the break.

Bowdoin pressured in the second stanza and managed an equalizer at the 62:30-mark, when junior striker Simon Parsons (Hollis, NH) notched his fifth goal of the season for the Polar Bears, knocking the ball past the outstretched arms of Amherst senior goalkeeper Greg Lockwood (Vancouver, WA). Neither team could muster a score in the next twenty minutes and the game remained knotted at the end of regulation.

After eight minutes of scoreless extra time, the referee called an Amherst foul on what appeared to be a Bowdoin hand-ball, giving the Polar Bears a set piece from the right side 25 yards out. Rookie defender Dominic Fitzpatrick (Framingham, MA) sent the free kick on a low line into the box, where sophomore forward Wolf Grueber (Hamburg, Germany) re-directed it off the inside of the left post and into the back of the net to clinch the victory.

The Jeffs fall to 4-2-2 (1-2-1 NESCAC) on the season, while Bowdoin improves to 6-1-0 (3-1-0 NESCAC).

Amherst returns to action Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at NESCAC rival Connecticut College.