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EAST STROUDSBURG – Junior forward Nemanja Nikolic scored the game-tying goal with 9:36 left and East Stroudsburg University and Shippensburg played a pair of eventful but scoreless overtime periods to come away with a 2-2 tie in PSAC men's soccer on Tuesday at Eiler-Martin Stadium.

The result gives the Warriors (4-6-4, 3-3-2) three straight ties for the first time in school history. The four ties in 2011 are tied for the most in a single season with the 1967 team which went 6-2-4.

Shippensburg (7-4-2, 2-3-2) took a 2-1 lead into halftime, on goals by Chrissy Black in the 13th minute and Oli Templeton in the 34th minute, around the first goal of the season from ESU sophomore midfielder Matthew Geidner in the 24th minute.

The Warriors tied it on Nikolic's goal with just under 10 minutes remaining, as Geidner's free kick was headed off the crossbar by sophomore forward Marc DeFeo before Nikolic cleaned up in front for his team-leading sixth goal of the season.

The rest of the game included nine cards – four yellow on each side and a red on ESU with 6:10 remaining in the second overtime – and 47 total shots, 25 by ESU and 22 by Ship. The Red Raiders held a 4-2 advantage in shots in overtime and ESU freshman Sean Murphy had the only save of overtime. Four of the yellows and the red card were shown in the 20-minute OT.

Murphy and Shippensburg's Andrew Foran both made eight saves. Ship's last chance came on a corner with under a half-minute left but senior back Josh Arcona cleared the ball off the goal line with a header. Murphy came up with two sprawling saves in the last five minutes of regulation and Foran punched a long ball over the crossbar late in regulation.

The Warriors remained unbeaten in their last six games – three PSAC wins followed by three ties, two against non-conference teams – and are in fifth in the PSAC standings with 11 points with one conference game remaining. Shippensburg sits in seventh with 8 points with two games remaining.

The two teams played in last year's PSAC championship game, with Ship winning on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie, but will need help from other schools in the conference to make this fall's tournament.

ESU, in the midst of a turnaround from a 1-7-1 start under fifth-year women's head coach Rob Berkowitz, hosts Molloy on Friday at 5 p.m. and Nyack next Wednesday at 5 p.m. before playing for a possible entry to the PSAC Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 29 at Bloomsburg.