HAVERFORD, Pa.—One hundred and ten minutes of soccer was not enough to decide a winner in Saturday's women's soccer season finale between Swarthmore College Women's Soccer and Haverford College. Fortunately, the two teams will be right back at it again next Saturday with a chance to settle the score.
The Garnet dueled with the Haverford Fords on Saturday afternoon to a 1-1 draw. As a result of the draw, the two teams finished as the second and third seeds, respectively, in the Centennial Conference postseason tournament and will thus pick up where they left off on Nov. 4. That Centennial semifinal match will be played on the campus of Johns Hopkins University at a to-be-determined time.
The Garnet were the first to score, ending 72 minutes of silence with Lizzie King's seventh goal of the season. King's goal was set up by Marin McCoy who tallied her program record 42nd point this season. After receiving the pass from McCoy, King cut back to get the ball on her right foot and then scored from close range by snapping a shot into the upper right corner of the goal.
However, in the 81st minute, the Fords found the equalizer on Saede Eifrig's goal from the 18.
The two teams combined for one shot on goal in the two halves of overtime. Swarthmore's Amy Shmoys denied that shot in the 97th minute to keep the tie intact. Shmoys recorded seven saves in 110 minutes played.
The Garnet recorded 19 total shots and put 10 of them on goal.
Swarthmore wraps up the regular season with a 13-3-1 overall record and a 7-2-1 record in conference while Haverford went 9-5-3 and 6-2-2 in conference.
The time of the Garnet's semifinal game will be announced on SwarthmoreAthletics.com on Monday.