Oct. 7, 2007

Linfield’s Overtime Goal Sinks Pacific Lutheran, 1-0

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UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – Sara Blake took advantage of a mistake in the Pacific Lutheran defense to score the only goal as the visiting Linfield Wildcats defeated the host Lutes, 1-0 in overtime, in a Northwest Conference women’s soccer match played Sunday at Curtis High School.

Blake was in the right spot when PLU goalkeeper Amanda Tschauner came out to grab Lian Yuen’s long ball into the box. Tschauner, seeing a line on the field and thinking she was outside the penalty box, instead let the ball bounce, and Blake came in behind and scored the game winner. Unfortunately for the Lutes, Tschauner saw a line for the football field and mistook it for the penalty box.

Blake’s goal, which came 5:07 into overtime, ended a match that featured few really good scoring chances for either team. Linfield was on target with eight of its shots, but Tschauner had little trouble in making seven saves. Pacific Lutheran managed only six shots the entire match, and Kelsey Hasselblad came up with four saves for the Wildcats. She made the best save of the match in the first half, however, when she tipped Amanda Crawford’s left-footed drive off of and over the crossbar.

With the victory, the Wildcats improve to 4-4-0 in the conference and 5-5-1 overall. Pacific Lutheran is now 1-6-1 in the NWC and 2-8-2 overall.

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