McGee Scores Game-Winner in OT
UNION, N.J. (9/19/08) - Senior Katie
McGee (Cherry Hill, N.J.) scored the game-winning goal
midway through overtime to lift the Kean University field hockey
team to a 2-1 victory over visiting Manhattanville College in
non-conference action on Friday evening.
McGee delivered a pass to junior Brittany Gibbs (West
Deptford, N.J.) at the top of the circle on a penalty
corner, where Gibbs controlled the ball and passed it back to McGee
on the left side of the cage for the game-winner 6:46 into the
extra session.
The Cougars (5-2) held a 24-8 edge in shots, as Manhattanville
freshman goalkeeper Natalie 
Fecteau (Augusta, Maine) made 14 saves for the Valiants (1-4)
in the losing effort.
Kean took an early 1-0 lead in the first half, as junior
Julie Bachovchin (Piscataway, N.J.) (pictured
right) scored off the assist from freshman Olivia Triano
(Keyport, N.J.) following a penalty corner just 12:20 into
the game.
The score held up until the final ten minutes of the contest,
when Valiant sophomore Jen Ascencio (Monroe, N.Y.)
gathered the loose ball following a saved shot and scored from in
front right in front of the cage to tie the game with 9:21
remaining.
In the extra session, the Valiants had an early scoring
opportunity with the first penalty corner of overtime, before the
Cougars took advantage of their third penalty corner to score the
game-winner.
For the Cougars, sophomore Ashlie Berghold (Boyertown,
Pa.) made four saves in the victory.
Kean returns to action on Tuesday, September 23, when they host
Richard Stockton College in the New Jersey Athletic Conference
opener at 7:30 p.m.
