The William & Mary field hockey team won its first shoot-out in over 20 years on Sunday afternoon, coming all the way back against Davidson to prevail in extra time 3-2.  With the win, the Tribe improved to 3-4 on the year, while the Wildcats fell to 1-6 overall.

After Davidson took the lead 2-0 in the first half, the Tribe kept its composure and worked the problem, slowly battling back into contention.  Breakthrough came in the 45th minute, when off a corner, freshman Cata Days (Buenos Aires, Argentina) scored for the second time this season.  Junior Booter Ellis (Delmar, Del.) took a shot that was partially blocked by a Davidson field player, and Days scooped up the carrom and deposited it in the back of the boards to cut the deficit in half.  In the 63rd minute, the Tribe earned another corner and this time it played straight-up, with freshman Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.) scoring her first career goal after passes from Days and junior Erin Menges (Richmond, Va.) to knot the game at 2-2.

The score stayed there for the final seven minutes of regulation, and throughout all 30 minutes of 7v7 overtime.  Davidson had the advantage in the first OT, taking four shots to W&M's pair, but that was reversed in the final 15 minutes (3-1 in favor of the Tribe) even despite W&M having to play the final two minutes with just six players after a green card.  Freshman goalkeeper Morgan Connor (Bedford, N.Y.) and her teammates were up to the task, making three of her six saves in the golden-goal periods, and sending the game into the penalty shootout.

This was the first penalty shootout that W&M had been part of since the 2008 season, and senior Olivia Hajek (Charlottesville, Va.) was first to take her eight-second try, resulting in a goal.  Davidson missed their attempt, and then the second round resulted in two more misses.  In the third round, Cammie Lloyd (Midlothian, Va.) made her goal, which was matched, as did freshman Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) and her counterpart for the Wildcats.  That brought Goodwin back to the top of the circle for the fifth and final round, and she buried her shot to give the Tribe a 4-2 advantage, and ended the shoot-out right there.  It was the first victory in a shoot-out for the Green and Gold since defeating No. 12 VCU in the 1993 season, and evened W&M's all-time record in shoot-outs at 5-5.

William & Mary is back in action next Sunday, Sept. 25, hosting in-state foe Liberty at 1 p.m. at Busch Field