Spring Break
Spartans triumph in overtime thriller
Dina Baslan
Issue date: 3/17/08 Section: Sports
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"After three hour practices you always want to get that last goal," said Harberts, a graduate student in kinesiology, who had three goals on the day, "and it just reflects how hard we all worked to get ahead the last second."
The Spartans took a 4-1 lead in the first quarter, with the first goal scored three minutes into the game by Bridget McKee and assisted by Adrianna Vogt.
"The first quarter is really important in games like this," said Vogt, a freshman kinesiology major. "It definitely sets the team up."
The Spartans led 5-3 heading into the third quarter, but the Aggies caught up, coming out strong and quick in the third, scoring four goals and transferring the game to their favor at 7-6.
"We always have a close game with Davis," said SJSU coach Lou Tully. "The outside shooting is what we were training to develop. We have pretty good shooters."
Vogt was injured in the middle of the third quarter as she went underwater to finish a shot when an opponent's fingers struck her in the face just below her eye.
"They got a goal cause I was taken back by it," Vogt said. "That obviously made a difference, but you can't let those things affect you. You gotta get back in there and finish the game."
Harberts delivered the tying goal with just over two minutes remaining in the final quarter to even the score at eight a piece.
"We played as a team, and it showed," Vogt said. "Being up 4-1 and then going down is not really an easy thing, but we definitely came back from it."
Shortly after the first minute of the first overtime period, Harberts scored a goal, but that was followed with an Aggies' goal delivered by Christi Rayvraft to tie the game 9-9.
"I wasn't even tired," said Juliet Moss, a senior kinesiology major. "Because my adrenaline was going so much, it didn't even faze me. I was just swimming up and back trying to get that last goal so we could win."
Tully praised senior goal keeper Kendra Adama for the performance she had maintained throughout the whole game.
The three-minute overtime periods, however, were the times she saved her team the most from tough Aggie shots. During the third overtime session alone, she blocked three shots.
With 1:46 left in the fourth-overtime period, Bridget McKee passed the ball to Harberts who buried the ball into the back of the Aggies' net to give the Spartans the victory.
"There's been a couple of games that we've played this season early that were one-ball games that we've lost," Moss said. "So we needed to show ourselves that we could win."
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