Box Score
With just 2:32 remaining in the second overtime, sophomore midfielder
Jamie Breton (Concord, N.H.) struck from 35 yards out to lift the Fighting Scots to a 2-1 victory over the visiting Chargers of Colby-Sawyer College in women's soccer action today on Gordon's Quad.
The win improves the Scots to 4-1 overall on the season while the loss marks Colby-Sawyer's first of the year (4-1).
Sophomore keeper
McKenzie Dion (North Grafton, Mass.) is credited with her first collegiate win after turning away 11 of the Chargers' attempts on net, while starting senior keeper
Kari Christensen (Standish, Maine) stopped five before leaving the game with an injury late in the first half.
After a flurry of opportunities in the opening minutes including a rip off the post from sophomore forward
Lauren Hayes (Wantage, N.J.), senior forward
Taylor McSherry (Wolcott, Conn.) got the scoring started for Gordon by teeing up a corner and bending it into the upper 90 over Colby-Sawyer's Karley Hamilton (So./Bradford, Vt.) for the 1-0 lead at 17:17. Then, in the waning minutes of the period, the Chargers' Lizzie Jorgensen (Fr./Manchester, Vt.) netted the equalizer off a deflected save by Christensen to lock the game at 1-1 heading into the break.
With both teams threatening but neither able to find the net in the second half or first overtime, Gordon's
Olivia Balloveras (Jr./Freeport, N.Y.) collected the ball in the Scots' attacking third and found Breton just outside the box, who settled the pass and sent home her third tally of the season for the win.
Starting backs
Julia Miller (Sr./New York, N.Y.),
Kaitlyn Hawn (So./Woodbury, Minn.),
Shelby Palafox (So./Lexington, Mass.), and
Sammi Morren (Fr./Caledonia, Mich.) anchored the back line to help preserve the victory for the Scots, while reserve
Stephanie Bouillon (Sr./Greenville, N.Y.) contributed significantly to the defensive effort.
Hamilton closed the outing with seven saves for the Chargers.
The Scots return to action on the Quad on Saturday, September 14 as they host Western New England in their Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) opener at 12 p.m. Colby-Sawyer will play host to Keene State on the same day at 1 p.m.