Box Score AURORA, Ill. – Junior Sara Travia scored two goals and set up senior Aly Loepfe's golden goal to send the MSOE women's soccer team to a 3-2 victory over Aurora in overtime Wednesday afternoon at Vago Field.
The Raiders (7-5, 3-2 NACC) beat the Spartans (6-5, 3-2 NACC) for the first time since 2011 and handed the nine-time defending conference champions their first-ever home NACC loss (50-1-1).
MSOE led in this game 1-0 and 2-1, but it was Loepfe's goal that settled the match. Travia dribbled into the penalty area and laid off a ball to near the top of the penalty area. Loepfe then one-touched a shot far post for the winner in the 95th minute.
The decisive score was the culmination of a great effort by the Red & White. The team went at AU from the beginning and broke through for the first goal in the 24th minute. Travia followed her own shot and beat the keeper with a nifty back-heel shot into the goal to make it 1-0.
Shots were 7-2 at that point in the match, as the Raiders put five of their attempts on frame in seizing the game's momentum early on.
Aurora would even the score in the 61st minute on the first of two goals from Hannah Scahill. The tie would be short-lived, as senior Natalie Gayner hit the crossbar at the other end of the field almost immediate.
Then, just 1:23 after Scahill's equalizer, Travia ran onto a high bouncing ball that the home defenders could not control. Once past the defense, she gave her side the 2-1 advantage with a shot slotted at the far post.
Scahill would knot the score once again in the 78th minute, heading in a free kick.
The Raiders outshot the Spartans 16-13 for the match, including a 10-6 advantage in shots on goal. Sophomore Mary McFee made four saves for the Red & White to preserve the win.
AU had won 29-straight NACC home games since the only other blemish on their record, a 0-0 draw with the Raiders Oct. 3, 2010.
MSOE returns to the field Saturday, taking a break from conference play to take on UW-Oshkosh.