The William & Mary field hockey team proved themselves un-matched in overtime once again on Wednesday afternoon, pushing past a tough Monmouth squad 3-2 in extra time in the NCAA Opening Round.  With the win, the Tribe improved to 12-7 on the year and advances to the NCAA First Round, while the Hawks finished their season at 13-7 overall.

How It Happened
- W&M controlled play for most of the first half, but Monmouth was able to get on the board first due an opportunistic and deadly counter-attack.
- In the 7th minute, Kelly Hanna and Georgia Garden Bachop pushed downfield together, piercing the Tribe defense and splitting off to either side of the goal.  Hanna had the ball and so drew the defense and freshman goalkeeper Kimi Jones (Virginia Beach, Va.), who could not ignore that immediate danger.  That left Garden Bachop wide open at the back post to receive the dish from Hanna and put it in for her 17th goal of the season.
- W&M stayed patient and began working the attack once again, building possession up to and into the circle, and it finally paid off with a penalty corner in the 23rd minute.  Junior Annie Snead (Midlothian, Va.) sent the ball in and stayed in a threatening position just off the near post, where junior captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) found her lurking with a pass.  Snead was able to convert the shot for her fourth goal of the year, tying the match 1-1.
- Despite more possession from W&M, including a penalty corner as time expired, that's how the half ended thanks in large part to Monmouth's stifling defense and outstanding play from freshman goalkeeper Kate O'Hogan, who had five saves on eight shots in the first half.
- Coming out of the break, momentum seemed to be firmly shifted towards Monmouth, with the Hawks controlling possession and pace of play almost as emphatically as W&M did in the first half.  Monmouth earned a penalty corner early in the 42nd minute, but Garden Bachop's shot was stifled on the flyout, and play flowed back the other way.
- On that swing, junior Woodard Hooper (Reston, Va.) got out on a breakaway of her own, but was taken out by O'Hogan as the play moved into the zone and W&M was awarded a penalty stroke.  Junior Cassidy Goodwin (Gloucester, Va.) stepped up to take the stroke, but O'Hogan did a good job of closing down the net and Goodwin's shot went just wide and hit off the post to defuse the scoring threat.
- Play continue to flow in the midfield with both teams garnering additional chances, but neither was able to score again until the final seven minutes of regulation.
- In the 64th minute, Monmouth re-established their lead, 2-1, on Garden Bachop's 18th goal of the year, tied for second in program history.  Elyssa Okken stole the ball from the W&M defense just outside the circle and passed into Garden Bachop, who turned and fired a shot from 10 yards out into the back boards.
- The Tribe responded quickly, tying the match 2-2 in the 66th.  It was another penalty corner goal, W&M's third of the game.  Snead once again started it off, and got the pass back from van de Kamp again.  As the Monmouth defense moved to block Snead, it opened up a lane to redshirt-senior Estelle Hughes (Newcastle, NSW, Australia) at the back post.  Snead threaded her pass through, and Hughes powered the shot into the net for her team-leading 13th-goal of the season.
- That's how regulation ended, and the teams were headed to overtime.  For W&M, it was their NCAA-leading and program-record ninth overtime game of the season, while Monmouth was playing free hockey for the fourth time this fall.
- The Hawks had possession first in overtime, but W&M was able to quickly clear the ball out and go on the attack.  Hughes had her shot in the 72nd minute blocked by a defender, and then Hooper took over.  She had shots in the 73rd and the 74th minutes, and then provided the winning shot in the 76th minute.  Hooper stole the ball off the stick of a defender just outside the circle, then passed to freshman Cara Menges (Richmond, Va.) on a give-and-go and began sprinting across the circle to the far post.  Menges deflected the pass back into Hooper's patch, and two strides later the junior was able to shoot past O'Hogan into the goal for her fourth game-winner and 13th goal of the year overall, sending the Tribe on to the next round.

Starters
W&M - Kimi Jones, Jenny McCann, Annie Snead, Ashleigh Nottingham, Cata Days, Christie van de Kamp, Estelle Hughes, Cara Menges, Woodard Hooper, Cassidy Goodwin, Haley Hopkins
Monmouth - Kate O'Hogan, Ireen Frenken, Josephine van der Hoop, Hannah Schiavo, Meg de Lange, Gab Girardi, Georgia Garden Bachop, Annick van Lange, Kelly Hanna, Lotte Boom, Annie Deusch

Notes
W&M won its NCAA-best and program-record sixth overtime game of the year, improving to 6-3 in extra time ... The Tribe also won its first NCAA game in three tries ... W&M is 9-9 all-time in the national post-season dating back to 1975 ... Snead's assist in the second half was her 12th of the season, breaking the W&M school record that had stood since 1979 ... van de Kamp's assist in the first half was her ninth of the year ... Between Snead and van de Kamp, this is the first time since 1990 and second time overall that two players have had 9+ assists in the same season ... Both Hooper and Hughes remain tied in the team lead with 13 goals and four game-winning goals apiece ... Hooper is fifth in school history with nine career game-winning goals ... Jones made one save while earning her 10th win of the season, a program-record for a true freshman ... W&M now has 152 points (54g, 44a) on the year, second-most in program history behind only the 1979 team (161 points while winning 18 games) ... The 54 goals scored is fifth all-time ... The 44 assists ties the school record set back in 2012.

Up Next
William & Mary heads down to Chapel Hill, N.C., to take on No. 1-ranked and top-seeded North Carolina (19-0) in the NCAA First Round.  The game will go off on Friday, Nov. 9, at 12 p.m. at Karen Shelton Stadium, with the winner advancing to Sunday's second round game against either No. 8 Michigan or No. 10 Saint Joseph's.  All three games will be streamed live on GoHeels.com.