Sept. 21, 2008
Box Score
Washington, D.C. - The Georgetown University women's soccer team scored two goals in a three-minute span late in the second half to earn a 2-2 tie with Penn on Sunday afternoon at North Kehoe Field. Goals from senior Nicole Smith (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) and junior Toni Marie Hudson (Coral Springs, Fla./Stoneman Douglas) kept the team undefeated on the season (6-0-2).
Trailing 2-0 in the 77th minute, a throw-in from freshman Samantha Baker (Long Beach, Calif./Wilson) went all the way through the penalty area from right-to-left and found Smith waiting at the far post to smash home her first goal of the season. It was an important goal, not only for momentum, but because it sliced the Penn lead to 2-1.
Three minutes later, Georgetown sent a long ball over the top from midfield that bounced off a Penn defender's arm in the penalty area. The referee awarded a penalty kick to the Hoyas, and Hudson calmly stepped up and claimed her team-leading ninth goal of the season to tie the game, 2-2. Hudson's tally moved her into a tie for fourth place on GU's single-season goal scoring list.
Over the final 11 minutes of regulation and 20 minutes of overtime, the Blue & Gray took six corner-kicks, however the only two chances saw Hudson and senior Stephanie Zare (Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest) sail them high.
Penn attacked the Hoyas from the get-go and scored six minutes into the game when Marin McDermott capitalized on crisp passes from Molly Weir and Sarah Friedman for a 1-0 Quaker lead. Hudson, Baker and Norah Swanson (Alamo, Calif./San Ramon Valley had shots at tying the game before Penn added another in the 33rd minute. Friedman, the team's leading point scorer, took a beautiful pass from Ursula Lopez-Palm and deposited it past Jackie DesJardin (Sunnyvale, Calif./Archbishop Mitty) for a 2-0 Penn advantage.
Penn continued to create chances in the second half as Theresa Yankovich hit the right post in the 67th minute, and DesJardin made fantastic saves to deny Marisa Schoen and Weir within a minute of one another. She finished the game with four saves, and those two seemed to energize GU as freshman Kelly D'Ambrisi (Trumbull, Conn./Lauralton Hall Academy) had three chances in a seven-minute span while Smith had a ball barely cleared off the line.
Georgetown travels to Seton Hall for a Friday night contest in South Orange. The BIG EAST contest will start at 7 p.m.
