Comeback Win for BU Women

Terriers Take Down Dartmouth for First Time Since 2004

September 25, 2009

BOSTON - Senior Emily Pallotta headed home the game-winning goal two minutes into overtime, as the Boston University women�s soccer team battled back to beat Dartmouth for the first time since 2004.

Classmate Mara Osher set up the winning goal with a perfectly placed cross into the box, earning the Terriers the 2-1 win Thursday night at Nickerson Field.

Junior Shauna Kelleher provided BU with its first goal of the evening to tie the game in the 60th minute after the squad found itself in a 1-0 hole at the halftime break. Senior Janie Reilly made three saves in the game, including two in the waning minutes of regulation that helped preserve the tie.

As the extra session began, Osher came streaking down the right flank and from 25-yards out sent a beautiful cross into the box to a waiting Pallotta, who leapt up above the rest of the players on the field to get a head on the ball and drill home her first goal of the season.

BU (4-2-2) outshot Dartmouth, 9-6, and held the 7-3 advantage in corner kicks.

In the 27th minute of the game, the Big Green (3-4-0) broke the scoreless deadlock when Aly O�Dea received a pass from Myra Sack and slotted it into the lower left corner for her third tally of the season.

In a nice individual effort, senior Farrell McClernon weaved through a slew of Big Green defenders and unleashed a point blank shot that Colleen Hogan scooped up with less than 10 minutes remaining in the stanza.

In the second half, Kelleher knotted the game, 1-1, when she headed home a deflection off a shot from junior Corie Halasz in the 60th minute. Halasz struck the ball from 18-yards out that was blocked by a Dartmouth defender, and on the ensuing rebound Kelleher headed the ball towards the net and it ricocheted under the cross bar and out of reach for netminder Colleen Hogan.

With 16 minutes remaining, O�Dea dumped the ball in from 20-yards out, and her shot went straight for the cross bar, but an alert Reilly tipped it over the net. Moments later, Sarah Bromley took a shot from inside the box and Reilly came up with the diving save, and on the ensuing rebound O�Dea nearly put it away but Halasz, who was positioned on the goal line, blocked it to preserve the tie and send it into overtime, where the Terriers capitalized on the golden goal.

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