WESTON, Mass. – September 14, 2019 - The Colby-Sawyer women's soccer team dropped its Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) opener at Regis in overtime, 2-1, on Saturday afternoon.
Today's game marked the second straight overtime game between the two teams.
Regis improves to 2-2 overall and 1-0 in the GNAC. Colby-Sawyer falls to 2-4 overall and 0-1 in conference action. The Chargers play at Plattsburgh State on Tuesday.
The game-winner came almost seven minutes into the first overtime session of the foot of Noelle Garcia. After a Colby-Sawyer foul awarded the Pride a free kick, Garcia's strike kick eluded both her teammates and the Charger defense, bouncing over the goal line into the net for the game-winning tally.
Colby-Sawyer took early control of the match, but a shot by
Leah Dupuis was stopped by Regis goalie Ori Attridge (Westwood, Mass.) and a scoring chance from
Molly MacLure sailed left. On a counterattack in the 12th minute, Kaylee Francis (Millis, Mass.) raced up the field with the ball and beat Charger goalie
Sam Mitchell for her second goal of the season.
Colby-Sawyer started keeping possession of the ball in the second half, first creating consecutive shots for
Thea Alberti and
Grace Walsh that were turned away by Attridge. Midway through the half, Attridge came up with two more key saves off shots by
Abby Hamelin and
Brenna Humphrey.
In the 79th minute, MacLure raced up the left side of the field and then sent a pass across the box to Dupuis, who converted on her scoring chance for the game-tying goal. Mitchell kept the Chargers in the match in the final 10 minutes of regulation with three saves, two off shots by Emily Lange and one resulting from an opportunity created by Brianna Gaynor.
Mitchell ended up with nine saves in the match, while Attridge collected six saves for Regis.
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--Courtesy of Regis
