Box Score NORTON, Mass. – Senior midfielder Chloe Troy (Wethersfield, Conn.) scored twice for the Wheaton College (Mass.) women's soccer team in a 4-4 tie with visiting Springfield College in New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference women's soccer action today at Mirrione Stadium on the campus of Wheaton in Norton, Mass. The Lyons are now 7-5-3 overall and 3-3-2 in league play, while the Pride are 6-5-2 and 4-2-2.
Springfield owned a 27-15 shot advantage and dominated the chances in the overtime periods, taking 11 of 12 shots between the teams in the extra periods. Wheaton held a 7-3 margin on corner kicks.
Senior midfielder Kaleigh Dale (Mansfield, Conn.) recorded her sixth career hat trick to lead the Pride.
Dale scored the final three goals for the Pride including the last goal of the match to knot the contest at 4-4 in the 71st minute on a penalty kick that she deposited into the right side of the net.
Junior forward Adalia Malick (Bristol, Conn.) broke into the scoring column for Springfield with the first score of the afternoon. She fired a shot that went off senior keeper Kaitlin Gossart's (Durham, Conn.) fingertips and into the back of the net in the 16th minute of play of the opening half.
The Lyons answered less than 10 minutes later when Troy collected a loose ball, following a corner kick opportunity, and put a shot over the goal line on the right side to tie the contest at 1-1. The goal marked the first of four ties in the game.
The deadlock last just 10 seconds as Dale took the ensuing kick-off and dribbled down the left side and into the box, before firing a shot into the far post for a 2-1 visitors' lead.
Wheaton evened the score again when first year Lily Brown (Warick, R.I.) sent a lead across ahead of junior midfielder Sadie Recht (Los Angeles, Calif.), who tracked it down inside the box and turned it into her fourth goal of the season in the 37th minute of play.
In a moment of déjà vu, Dale needed just 27 seconds to carry the ball down the left side again and fired a hard shot into the right side to reclaim the lead for the Pride at 3-2. Neither team scored for the remainder of the half as Springfield took a one-goal margin into the intermission.
The Lyons took their first lead of the day with a pair of goals in less than 10 minutes in the second half. Recht sent a cross to the top of the box, where senior midfielder Jaime Rattenni (West Greenwich, R.I.) sent a shot into the back of the net for her eighth marker of the season in the 54th minute for a 3-3 tie. Troy gave the home team its first advantage when she converted a penalty kick into the right side of the net in the 64th minute for a 4-3 edge.
The Pride had a number of chances to win the match in overtime, but sophomore keeper Gabby Marcus (Austin, Texas) and the Wheaton defense was up to the challenge.
Junior forward Kellie Smith (Marshfield, Mass.) blasted a hard shot ticketed for inside the right post less than four minutes into the first overtime, but Marcus dove and turned back the try to keep Springfield off the board.
Springfield had its best opportunity to end the game in the second half when Marcus was called for a double-touch in the box. Wheaton quickly formed a wall with all 11 players on the goal line, before Dale looked to take aim on the indirect kick. Just as she began her strike, Marcus rushed off her line to meet the shot and deny the potential game-winner. Malick collected the ball, but her rebound shot went off the post.
Rattenni attempted the Lyons' only shot in the second overtime with five minutes left, but first year keeper Taryn Ryan (Holyoke, Mass.) made the save to keep it at four goals apiece.
The Pride had one last chance with 15 seconds left in the match, but were denied one last time. Malick carried the ball to the left side of the box, before sending a centering cross to streaking graduate student midfielder Cassidy Bailey (Monson, Mass.), who sent a shot into a vacant right side of the net, but senior back Amanda Dunton (Huntington Beach, Calif.) was there to block the try and keep it a tie game.
Ryan finished with seven saves for Springfield. Gossart stopped six of nine shots in the first half for Wheaton, before yielding to Marcus, who turned away five of six shots in the final 65 minutes of action.
The Lyons return to action on Saturday, October 23 when they travel to Worcester, Mass. to take on NEWMAC foe Clark University at 11:00 a.m., while the Pride host Brandeis University on October 23 at 1:00 p.m.
