Wisconsin Soccer Central

For the second straight day, the Milwaukee Wave rallied to forge a fourth-quarter tie on Sunday afternoon. But this time, the home side couldn't complete the comeback.

Kenardo Forbes set up Jake Schindler's go-ahead goal with 2:06 to play, then added two goals of his own as the Syracuse Silver Knights used a late surge to beat the Wave 9-5 in a Major Arena Soccer League match at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.

Milwaukee (10-6) trailed 5-2 at halftime, but Stephen DeRoux played a role in all three goals as the Wave leveled the score. DeRoux scored for the first time since joining the team last month in the third quarter, then assisted on Ian Bennett's goal 9:31 into the fourth and pulled Milwaukee even at 5-5 just 1:23 later.

The Silver Knights (8-7) needed just 2 minutes to regain the lead through Forbes and added three goals in the final 66 seconds to snap the Wave's four-game winning streak – Milwaukee's most recent loss was 5-4 to the Missouri Comets back on Jan. 2.

Guilherme Veiga and Pablo da Silva had the other goals for the Wave, who overcame a three-goal deficit and beat the Cedar Rapids Rampage 7-6 in overtime on Saturday night at UWM Panther Arena. Syracuse was coming off an 11-7 loss at the Chicago Mustangs.

Bennett's goal was his 30th of the season, the second-best total in the MASL behind Sonora's Franck Tayou (36). It's the second straight season Bennett has reached 30 goals; he scored a career-best 36 goals last season.

A crowd of 2,985 watched the matinee; the Wave rank fifth in the 20-team league with an average of 3,421 fans for their seven home games. Milwaukee is off next weekend, then continues its five-game homestand Feb. 14 against Missouri (12-3).