The Virginia women’s soccer team won at Maryland last night 3-2 after taking an early lead.
Virginia went ahead two goals in the early minutes of the game with scores from senior defender Nikki Krzysik and freshman forward Lauren Alwine, but the Cavaliers allowed the Terrapins to battle back and tie the game at 2-2 shortly after halftime.
The rest of regulation remained scoreless until the two teams headed into overtime. As the minutes of regulation wore out and overtime continued, Virginia increased its forward attack. Just four minutes into sudden death overtime, sophomore defender Colleen Flanagan headed in a corner kick from Alwine to win the game and move the Cavaliers to 5-1 in the conference and 11-2-1 overall. The loss drops Maryland to 5-8-1 and 1-5 in the ACC.
Virginia will return home to continue its ACC schedule against Boston College (9-3-2, 3-2-1 ACC) Sunday. Duke separates the two teams in the ACC standings, although the Eagles have already fallen against the two teams atop the conference standings, Florida State and North Carolina.
On paper Boston College appears to be an average ACC team because its lone outstanding statistic, the team’s eight shutouts on the season, has been achieved by four other ACC teams. Virginia has seven shutouts on the season.
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