Worcester State Falls in Double OT,
1-0
(Courtesy Tufts University Sports
Information)
SOMERVILLE
– Junior Jessie Wagner (Sudbury, MA) scored two
minutes into the second overtime to give the Tufts
women’s soccer team a 1-0 non-conference victory
against Worcester State College on Wednesday
afternoon at Kraft Field.
Played under remarkably windy conditions, the match
seem destined to be a 0-0 draw until Wagner
beautifully placed a shot from outside the top of
box into the far right corner of the net. The golden
goal was the first of her Tufts career for Wagner,
who scored four times as a freshman at Bates College
in 2004. The win was the eighth in nine games for
the Jumbos (8-3-2). The Lancers, playing their
regular-season finale, dropped to 13-5-1 overall.
Tufts dominated play and would have been
disappointed with a 0-0 draw. The final
tallies had the Jumbos earning a 28-4 margin in
shots and a 13-1 advantage in corner kicks. In the
first half, their best opportunities came on shots
over the crossbar by freshman Sara Raley
(Centennial, CO) and junior Martha Furtek (East
Falmouth, MA). The Lancers did not have a shot in
the first half.
Lancer keeper Kim Massa (Westford, MA) blocked a
point-blank blast by Tufts sophomore Rebecca Abbott
(New Orleans, LA) with 30 minutes on the clock in
the second half. Worcester’s best opportunity of the
game came four minutes later on a direct kick by
senior co-captain Melissa Colwell (Spencer, MA) that
was saved by Tufts keeper Annie Ross (Newton, MA).
In the first overtime, Massa made another quality
save on an open shot by Furtek. Worcester picked up
its play a bit in the extra periods, but Tufts was
able to finish with a victory when Wagner calmly set
up her shot and let it rip for the winner with 7:37
on the clock in the second OT.
Massa finished with six saves for Worcester. Ross
made two saves helping Tufts pick up its sixth
shutout and second in a row. Furtek finished the
match with 10 shots for Tufts. However, only seven
of the team’s 28 total shots landed on goal.
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