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STANDISH, Maine – Senior Hailey Tarr (Eliot, Maine) converted her attempt in the second round of penalty kicks to help #2 Saint Joseph's College (13-3-3) get past #7 University of Saint Joseph (10-6-2) in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) women's soccer tournament quarterfinal at the SJC Athletics Complex on Saturday afternoon.

PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS:

With the victory, Saint Joseph's advances to the GNAC semifinal round and will host #3 Emmanuel College on Tuesday evening, start time TBD. The Saints toppled sixth-seeded Albertus Magnus College by a 5-2 in other quarterfinal action this afternoon.

For University of Saint Joseph, the loss signals the end of the 2019 campaign.

HOW IT HAPPENED:

With the tourney tilt tied 2-2 after 90 minutes of regulation and a pair of 10-minute overtime frames, the Monks and Blue Jays – teams that played to a 0-0 double-overtime stalemate during the regular season – headed for penalty kicks to determine which team would advance to the semifinals.

The first PK round, which is a best-of-five format, saw the conference counterparts both net a trio of tries to force a second PK set. The NCAA rules state that the second PK round features attempts that "continue alternately in the same order until a team has one more goal in the same number of kicks" (7.1.1.3).

The second PK round saw just two kickers, as SJC sophomore keeper Adia Grogan (Kennebunk, Maine) made a tremendous diving save on an attempt by junior Alyssa Fecko (Stafford, Conn.), setting the stage for Tarr, who launched a shot to the upper right corner of the net, effectively advancing the Monks to the semifinal round in the process.

The Monks fought back from a pair of deficits during regulation. USJ sophomore Rylee Snow (West Greenwich, R.I.) opened the scoring at the 22:41 mark with her seventh tally of the season, but SJC junior McKenzie Murphy (West Baldwin, Maine) notched her 11th of the year, off a feed from Tarr, just under eight minutes later to knot the game at 1-1.

The tie score almost made it to intermission, but Olivia Belcourt hit pay dirt off an Olivia Norton pass at the 43:20 mark to live the Blue Jays to a 2-1 edge heading into halftime.

The outlook was bleak for the Monks as the hosts trailed 2-1 going into the final five minutes of regulation, but consistent offensive pressure paid dividends at the 85:17 time stamp, when Murphy found freshman Madison Michaud (Presque Isle, Maine) with a lead pass and the first-year phenom beat USJ sophomore netminder Lindsey Montminy (Vernon, Conn.)– who left the goalmouth to challenge – for her sixth strike of the year.

THE KEEPERS:

Grogan turned away eight shots for the Monks while Montminy posted 10 saves for the Blue Jays.

TEAM STATS:

Saint Joseph's held the lead in shots (27-15), shots on goal (12-10), and corner kicks (6-3) on the afternoon.

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING:

Today's contest goes down as a tie in the record books as the Monks are now 8-3-5 all-time versus University of Saint Joseph.