NORTON, Mass. – First year forward Olivia Birbara (West Hartford, Conn.) scored the game-winning goal to give the Wheaton College field hockey team a 3-2 comeback victory over visiting Husson University today on Nordin Field on the campus of Wheaton in Norton, Mass. The Lyons win their third straight contest to improve to 3-2 on the season, while the Eagles fall to 0-2. 

Junior midfielder Sophie Shekarchi (Jamestown, R.I.) found Birbara for her second goal of the year and the game-winning score just 3:40 into the fourth quarter to give Wheaton a 3-2 edge. 

Shekarchi tied the match at 2-2, only 44 seconds into the second half, when she took a feed from senior midfielder Lindsay Janeczek (Glastonbury, Conn.) and converted it for her third marker of the season for the Lyons. 

Wheaton continued a recent trend with an early score coming in the first quarter of play when Janeczek tallied her team-leading third goal of the season at the 7:32 mark for a 1-0 edge. 

Husson scored the next two goals in a span of less than seven minutes to take a 2-1 margin. Junior forward Adelle Foss (Farmington, Maine) found the back of the cage with her second goal of the season for the equalizer for the Eagles at 11:56, before Julia Murch (Naples, Maine) gave the visitors the lead with her first collegiate goal coming at 18:19 of the second quarter. 

Husson owned a 15-13 shot advantage, but the Lyons limited the Eagles to just four shots in the second half, including just one in the final quarter. Wheaton's offense took  aim with seven shots in the second half and held a 10-7 margin on penalty corners for the match. 

Sophomore goalie Emma Lapreziosa (Bowdoinham, Maine) recorded seven saves in the victory for the Lyons, while junior keeper Kimmie Goddard (Westbrook, Maine) made three saves for Husson. 

Wheaton returns to action on Wednesday, September 15 when they travel to Brighton, Mass. to take on Simmons University on Daly Field at 5:00 p.m., while the Eagles head to Henniker, N.H. to play New England College on September 18 at 1:00 p.m.