Box Score

AMHERST, N.Y. - Amidst miserable weather conditions, the Daemen College women's soccer team battled to a 1-1 draw today with visiting St. Thomas Aquinas College in an East Coast Conference game at Dimp Wagner Stadium.  With today's result, Daemen moves to 2-7-1 overall (0-3-1 in the league), snapping their seven-game losing skid, while the Spartans (4-3-2, 1-3-1 ECC) remained winless in their last four outings.

Cassidy Kozub (West Seneca, N.Y./Orchard Park) put Daemen on the board early, scoring her first goal of the season, and the second of her career in the seventh minute of the contest.  Kozub broke free up the left side, taking a ncie feed from junior back Meghan Lipinoga (North Tonawanda, N.Y./Canisius College) and beating Spartan goalkeeper Amanda Volpe with a hard, low shot.

From there, St. Thomas Aquinas controlled much of the flow of the game, but couldn't hit pay-dirt as the Wildcat defense kept them at bay.

Daemen had a solid opportunity to go ahead by two when senior Juli Prentice (Dryden, N.Y./Dryden) got loose on a breakaway midway through the second half, but her shot was off the mark.

Shortly thereafter, Francesca Giglio got the equalizer for the Spartans.  Daemen goalkeeper Kathryn Haessner (Moravia, N.Y./Moravia) made the initial save on a shot attempt by the Spartans' Priya Bhatti, but couldn't control the rebound which was sent home by Giglio in the 73rd minute.

Haessner came up big late in regulation, thwarting a breakaway attempt by the Spartans' Nisha Flynn in the 87th minute.  Flynn found herself alone, breaking through the middle of the Daemen defense, but Haessner came out of the goal to cut down the angle and got enough of Flynn's shot attempt to send it wide, keeping the score knotted at 1-1.

That's the way it would end with both teams trading few scoring opportunities in the overtime periods.

Daemen is now 1-1-1 in overtime games this season.  Today's tie was just the Wildcats' third in the six-year tenure of Daemen head coach Dan Dolan, and their first since a 2-2 draw vs. Roberts Wesleyan College back on Sept. 28, 2010.

Daemen will look to jump back in the win column when they make the short trek to Buffalo's Johnnie B. Wiley Stadium this Tuesday, Oct. 7 to face crosstown rival Medaille College in an 11 a.m. non-conference matinee.