Medford, Mass. - Senior co-captain Taylor Dyer (Windham, N.H.) scored on a penalty stroke at 11:16 of the first overtime to give the No. 9-ranked Tufts University Jumbo field hockey team an exciting 3-2 win over the visiting No. 14-ranked Trinity College Bantams in a New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) game at Bello Field this afternoon.  The Bantams' five-game winning streak comes to an end and Trinity is now 6-2 overall and 5-2 in NESCAC. The Jumbos improve to 6-2 overall and 3-2 in the league.

In seven-on-seven overtime play, Trinity had threatened first by earning a pair of penalty corners. Jumbo senior goalie Marianna Zak (Concord, Mass.) made saves on shots by Bantams Payson Sword (Princeton, N.J.) and Hadley Duncan (Rye, N.Y.).  At the other end, the Jumbos were awarded a penalty stroke after Trinity goalie Gina Dinallo (West Hartford, Conn.) dove on the ball interfering with a shot attempt by Jumbo junior Lia Sagerman (LaJolla, Calif.). Dyer converted for the 3-2 win.

Tufts and Trinity started with a bang, combining for three goals in the first nine minutes of action. Tufts executed a pair of penalty corner attempts to take a 2-1 lead. On the first, junior Rachel Gerhardt's (Worcester, Mass.) strike found junior Missy Karp (Berwyn, Pa.) at the far post and she scored at 31:15.  Three minutes later, Trinity tied it after junior forward Alanna Capasso (Weston, Mass.) stick-handled through the Tufts defense and passed to senior captain forward Caroline Snite (Philadelphia, Pa.) who scored with 28:09 on the clock.  The Jumbos made it 2-for-2 on corners at 26:46 when Dyer's strike was redirected at the right post by Sagerman for her fifth goal of the season and a 2-1 Tufts lead. That score remained until halftime.

Trinity applied excellent pressure early in the second half. Dyer made a defensive save on a Bantam corner, and Zak saved shots by junior Hayley Thompson (Ipswich, Mass.) and sophomore Paula Shea (Longmeadow, Mass.) after another Trinity corner.  The Bantams tied the game at 2-2 as the result of another corner when Duncan scored off her own rebound at 14:40.  Tufts was awarded three penalty corners at the end of regulation, but Dinallo saved the best bid of the sequence by Gerhardt and the game went to OT.  Dinallo made seven saves in the Trinity cage.  The Jumbos finished with advantages of 18-12 in shots and 10-9 in corners. Zak recorded six saves.

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