Quick OT Goal Gives No. 8 Warhawks Win

September 16, 2017
The NCAA women's soccer record book doesn't have a record for fastest overtime goal, but Marie Lesperance (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha South) made her case for it Saturday. Lesperance, a junior forward, scored eight seconds into overtime to give the No. 8 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's soccer team a 2-1 victory over Wittenberg at Fiskum Field in Whitewater. The Warhawks improve to 4-0-2 and will play the winner of a match between Illinois Wesleyan and No. 1 Washington-St. Louis Sunday at 4 p.m. Senior midfielder Devon Polk (Racine, Wis./St. Catherine's) had a shot glance off the crossbar and out of play just 38 seconds into the match as the Warhawks put their characteristic early pressure on the Tigers. UW-W followed with several shots in the next 20 minutes, but none were on target. Wittenberg had chances in the 21st and 24th minutes but Warhawk goalkeeper Sara Klimisch (Pleasant Prairie, Wis./Indian Trail High School and Academy) made stops on both shots. Klimisch got some help from her left goalpost in the 27th minute when a Tiger shot hit it and ricocheted out of play. Klimisch made one more save just before halftime and the teams entered intermission tied at zero. Twenty-one minutes into the second half the Warhawks capitalized on a corner kick by Alyssa Lennon (Oshkosh, Wis./Oshkosh West). Lennon sent the ball into the box and Anna Boyd (De Pere, Wis./De Pere) poked it past the keeper for a 1-0 lead. Less than five minutes later the Tigers answered when a shot from 25-yards out fell into the goal over the head of Klimisch. The teams battled the rest of regulation but the score remained 1-1 at the end of ninety minutes. As soon as the first overtime started, it seemed like it was over. Lesperance took the opening pass fifty yards, dribbling through several defenders, before sliding the ball past the Tiger keeper just eight seconds into the extra period. Klimisch made four saves for the Warhawks. UW-W outshot Wittenberg 24-8 in the match and tallied eight corners to the Tigers' zero.
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