Lewiston, Maine - Lily Peterson headed in the game-winning goal with 3:47 left in the second overtime period, giving the Bates College Bobcat women's soccer team a 2-1 victory over the visiting Trinity College Bantams in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) women's soccer action this afternoon at Russell Street Field.  Trinity falls to 1-3 overall and 0-3 in the NESCAC, while Bates improves to 1-3 overall and in the league.

Karen Lockhart put Bates on the scoreboard first in the 20th minute, when she kicked a loose ball in from five feet away from the goal line, after Trinity goalkeeper Monika Difiorio (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) deflected Bates midfielder Sam Rose's initial shot from the outside perimeter of the box.  Trinity erased Bates' 1-0 halftime lead in the 48th minute, when Abbey Lake (Westport, Conn.) stole the ball from a Bobcat defender near the right baseline, then was able to free up a left-footed shot that passed in front of Bates goalkeeper Anabel Schmelz and into the far left corner of the goal.  With both teams playing their second game in as many days, fatigue played a factor in the late minutes of regulation time and into overtime. Schmelz came up with one of her six saves to stop Elisa Dolan's (Bethesda, Md.) bid to end the game.

Difiorio made a save of her own in the second overtime, on a shot by Bates first-year Maggie Coco, to preserve the 1-1 tie. But a foul called on Trinity with four minutes left in the game gave Bates' Camille Smith a free kick from just inside the midfield line, on the left side of the field. With the wind at her back, Smith boomed the ball into Trinity's penalty area, where it took one large bounce toward the right post. The 5-foot-10 Peterson got behind her defender, outleaped her for the ball and pushed it past the advancing Difiorio and into the net.  Bates outshot Trinity by a 3-0 margin in the final 10-minute period, and 19-14 in the game.  Difiorio made eight saves, while Schmelz came up with six for Bates.

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