Field Hockey Drops Double Overtime Heartbreaker to UMass

Tuesday, October 12

Hanover, N.H.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

UMASS

Field Hockey Drops Double Overtime Heartbreaker to UMass

10/12/2010 5:33:00 PM | Field Hockey

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – Samantha McPherson (Ventura, Calif.) and Maya Herm (Bethesda, Md.) teamed up for Dartmouth's tying goal, 65:35 into the game but it was not enough as the Big Green field hockey team dropped a 5-4, double overtime heartbreaker to the University of Massachusetts on Tuesday at Chase Field. UMass' leading scorer, Katie Kelly tallied the game winner in the 87th minute to lift the Minutewomen to 7-6 on the season while Dartmouth fell to 8-4.

Kelly Hood (Berlin, N.H.) gave the Big Green an early lead just a few minutes into the contest but three straight goals by the visitors gave UMass a 3-1 advantage going into the break.

Hood came out in the second half and scored her second of the game off another Dartmouth corner with assists going to Herm and Virginia Peisch (Koenigstein, Germany). Less than ten minutes later, Peisch and Hood teamed up again for the tying goal. On the Big Green's fourth corner shot in a row, Peisch pushed in as Hood was there to take the shot as Peisch was able to get her stick down and tip the ball past UMass goalie Alesha Widdall for the strike.

Late in the game the Minutewomen's Makaela Potts scored on UMass' sixth corner of the contest to lift the visitors to a 4-3 lead but McPherson's and Herm's heroics allowed Dartmouth to go into overtime for the first time this season.

During the first extra frame, both sides were able to get shots on net but neither could clinch the win. The second overtime featured six-on-six play as Herm tried to give her team the victory with a breakaway that was unfortunately stripped by the Minutewomen just inside UMass' circle. One of netminder Meagan Vakiener's (Port Murray, N.J.) eight saves in the game came in the second overtime with a great kick save but Kelly would come right back for the game winner just a few minutes later.

Widdall finished with two saves as the Big Green tallied 17 shots to UMass' 21. Dartmouth held the lead in penalty corners, 10-6.

The Big Green will be back in action on Saturday with an Ivy League matchup against Yale at Chase Field. Game time is scheduled for 12:00 pm.