ABINGTON, PA. – Behind a second half surge, the Penn State Abington men's soccer team picked up a 4-2 win over Gwyendd Mercy University on Wednesday afternoon. With the win the Nittany Lions improve to 7-6-1 for the season before they play their final game of the regular season.

Orchestrating the attack Brian Gibson earned three assists while Michael Thomas picked up a brace to bring his total to eight goals this season.

The Nittany Lions were stunned early by a great individual effort from the Griffins Hugh Lynch. The attacker cut in and curled a perfect shot that went top corner to give the visitors the 1-0 advantage.  Abington poured on the pressure in the first half with 13 shots and 13 corner kicks but none of their chances found the back of the net.

Down by a goal in the second half the Nittany Lions finally broke through when Gibson played Thomas into the box and the sophomore rocketed his shot to the far post. The flood gates opened in the 74^th minute with three goals for the Nittany Lions within 90 seconds.  First Gibson again played Elijo Agolli in who fired his shot on target being deflected by the defender and put in for the go-ahead goal.  Less than a minute later Thomas netted another for the Nittany Lions to make it 3-1. Gibson drove into the box from the left side and put his ball across the net where Benell Saygarn put it in for his first goal of his career for the Nittany Lions.  The Griffins would get in one more goal before time expired but Abington came away with the win.

Abington will be back in action on Saturday for senior day when they honor Alec Howser before they face off against Morrisville State at 12:00 p.m.