Men’s soccer scored its first goal Saturday following three-straight shutouts, but that wasn’t enough to get the Huskies back in the win column.

The Huskies (2-5-5, 0-0-1 MAC) played the West Virginia Mountaineers (6-5-1, 0-0-1 MAC) to a 1-1 draw in double overtime at the Soccer and Track & Field Complex.

The Huskies scored their lone goal in the 46th minute of the game, the first minute of the second half. The goal ended a drought of nearly 370 minutes without a goal for the Huskies, who last scored Sept. 23 at Milwaukee.

It was a “huge sense of relief for me,” said sophomore forward Chris Paton, who scored the equalizer. “I thought we had been unlucky the past three or four games and that we just needed a little break, but as soon as it went in [it was a] huge relief.”

Paton headed the ball into the back of the net on a cross from the left side to the near post from senior forward Andrew Palumbo. Paton had played the ball out wide before sprinting down the field and into the box.

“I just remember busting in there, and [the ball] just somehow managed to fall in front of me, and I just managed to tap it in,” Paton said. “I feel pretty happy about that.”

The Huskies pushed for a second goal in the second half and the two overtime periods, but they failed to hammer home the go-ahead goal.

West Virginia put in the game’s first goal in the 38th minute after a turnover by the Huskies near midfield. Mike Desiderio played the ball to Andy Bevin, who launched a shot from about 10 yards out on the right wing that beat goalkeeper Andrew Glaeser to his right.

“You saw the kind of games that happen once you get into conference play,” said head coach Eric Luzzi. “Both teams were pretty well up for it. It was pretty intense, chippy in moments, but I also thought there was a lot of moments of really good soccer on both sides.”

Both teams had chances to put in a second goal, but neither team capitalized. The Mountaineers registered 14 shots, including eight shots on goal. The Huskies managed 15 shots with six shots on goal.

“On the whole, I think West Virginia was better in the first half, but I was really proud of our guys,” Luzzi said. “I thought in the second half we really came out and were very much on the front foot, got the goal back really early, and that gave us a little spark; that was good to see. The belief that we could come back against a very good team; that was good. And then I though we just maintained it throughout the second half and most of the overtimes.

“West Virginia probably feels the same way, but I thought we were in the end unlucky probably not to get all three points.”