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Photo credit: Justin Maynard\/AC Connecticut<\/p><\/div>\n

Two days after making a couple of critical saves in Friday’s draw at Lusitano Stadium<\/a>, AC Connecticut keeper Steve Sasso was superlative once again in Sunday’s 1-1 draw to Real Boston Rams on Sunday at Milton High School in Milton, Mass. <\/p>\n

Sasso registered seven saves to thwart a Boston outfit that outshot Connecticut 21-5. Frantzdy Pierrot’s 69th minute effort was the only ball that beat the Blues’ keeper, whose strong performance allowed his side to claim a brief lead in the 65th minute on David Abunaw’s first career PDL goal.<\/p>\n

The draw stretched the Blues unbeaten streak to three (1-0-2) and extended the Rams undefeated run to five (4-0-1).<\/p>\n

Following a first half in which they were outgunned 12-2 on the shot chart, Connecticut persevered just after the hour mark. Jannik Eckenrode raced into the Boston end and sent a cross into the box for Abunaw, who buried it from close range to give the guests the shock lead.<\/p>\n

But that lead didn’t last long. After failing to clear a dangerous ball out the area, Connecticut could only watch as Pierrot pounced on it and put it through to level it four minutes later.<\/p>\n

Connecticut defender Ashton Pett was called upon to preserve the result in the 80th minute when he cleared a dangerous Boston shot off the line. <\/p>\n

Connecticut will return to action on Friday at 6:00pm in their home finale against GPS Portland Phoenix at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Ct. The Rams will head north to face Seacoast United Phantoms at 7:00pm on Tuesday at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, N.H.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connecticut keeper Steve Sasso collected seven saves to steer his side to a 1-1 draw against Real Boston Rams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84],"tags":[879,1310,1210,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Steve-Sasso.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36577"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36585,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36577\/revisions\/36585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}