Box Score GREENSBURG, Pa. --
Hayley Skovira scored the game-winner in the second overtime to send the Washington & Jefferson women's soccer team to a 4-3 win at Pitt-Greensburg in non-conference action on Sunday.
The Presidents pick up their first win of the season to improve to 1-3 in 2014. The Bobcats fall to 2-3.
The goal by
Hayley Skovira came on a free kick from outside of the box 2:25 into the second overtime. The opportunity presented itself after
Morgan Kinyon made a save on a Pitt-Greensburg scoring opportunity one minute earlier.
UPG forced overtime with a game-tying goal by Abigail Pasierb in the 80th minute to make the score 3-3.
Jess Skovira opened the scoring early with a low shot from inside the box just 4:49 into play. The Bobcats tied the game in the 16th minute on a shot from outside the box to the upper left by Courtney Carroll, 1-1.
Tatiana Ruzzini scored her first of two goals in the game and gave W&J the lead back with just under 10 minutes left in the first half when she scored to the upper-right corner off a
Hayley Skovira assist. W&J maintained the 2-1 lead at halftime.
At the 52:26-mark, Alexandra Dimoff scored on a one-timer inside the box for UPG to knot the game at 2-2. Ruzzini's second goal of the game came 3:45 later to put the Presidents back in the lead, 3-2, with the assist to
Mariah Lockard.
Shots in the contest were close with W&J holding a slim, 17-16, lead, thanks to 11 second-half shots. Ruzzini led the Presidents with seven shots, while
Hayley Skovira added three and
Jess Skovira and Lockard each had two shots.
Morgan Kinyon earned the win, making six saves, including one in each of the overtimes, in 102:25.
W&J's five-game road swing continues with a 5 p.m. match at Wooster on Wednesday, Sept. 17.