Box Score FARMINGTON -- Alyssa St. Pierre (Jay, ME) scored 3:14 into overtime to propel the University of Maine at Farmington field hockey team to a 2-1 non-conference win over Husson University this afternoon at Prescott Field.
The Beavers (5-4) are scheduled to host the University of New England in a non-conference contest Tuesday at Prescott Field. Game time is slated for 4 p.m. The Eagles (1-5) are scheduled to host Thomas College in North Atlantic Conference action Saturday at 1 p.m.
St. Pierre punched in a pass by Hattie Agnew (Guilford, ME) for the game-winner. The duo also combined for the game-tying score at 51:57 as St. Pierre deflected a long bid by Agnew to make it 1-1.
Emily Woodbury (Burnham, ME) gave Husson a 1-0 lead at 13:29. Woodbury worked her way through the Beaver defense to knock the ball in. Woodbury's score highlighted a Husson-controlled half (7-2 shots).
Farmington picked up its play in the second half (8-3 shots, seven penalty corners) culminating in St. Pierre's tying marker. The Eagles responded with four penalty corners and a pair of Jenika Kelley (Livermore Falls, ME) shots over the next 3:30, but Farmington keeper Sarah Brown (Windham, ME) recorded two saves to help the game into overtime.
Agnew and Ashley Wentworth (North Berwick, ME) were each stopped by Husson netminder Kristen Capen (Leeds, ME) to open the extra period before St. Pierre came through with her team-leading seventh goal to lift the Beavers to a 2-1 win.
Brown recorded six saves for Farmington.
Capen registered five saves for the Eagles.
