Senior
Megan Webber scored late in the first overtime to give the Muhlenberg field hockey team a thrilling 2-1 win at Gettysburg.
It was the fourth straight one-goal win for the Mules (3-6, 2-3) at Gettysburg, and it happened largely due to the play of senior
Mel Cartagena, who made a career-high 15 saves. Cartagena made 10 of her stops in the fourth quarter and overtime, including back-to-back saves on a breakaway less than two minutes before Webber's winner.
The Bullets (6-5, 2-3), who last week won at nationally ranked Franklin & Marshall, took a 1-0 lead midway through the second quarter.
Muhlenberg drew even early in the third quarter after sophomore
Taylor Canfield got her stick on a Gettysburg pass near midfield. The ball deflected to Webber, who made a long pass into the circle that senior
Mallory Holson slid past the goalie for her third goal of the season.
On the winning goal, Webber
(pictured above) picked off a Bullet pass near midfield on the right side and went straight to goal, blowing past a Bullet defender about five yards outside the circle and shooting to the left of the charging goalie from five yards away. It was the fourth career goal for Webber, but her first in more than three years, since she netted one against Johns Hopkins on October 6, 2018, in her freshman season.
The overtime win was the first for the Mules on an opponents' home field since a 2016 game at King's and their first in a Centennial Conference contest since 2015 when, in similar fashion, they overcame a 1-0 halftime deficit to win 2-1 at Gettysburg.
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