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Mays, Metro advance in overtime
Sunday’s start time was pushed back one hour as Metro State, including members of the administrative staff and baseball and softball teams, had to clear 7 inches of snow from the field after a winter storm buried Denver on Saturday night. (photo courtesy Metropolitan State College)
Becca Mays scored her second goal of the game with about four minutes remaining in overtime to give the No. 4 Metropolitan State College women’s soccer team a 2-1 victory over Minnesota-Duluth in the NCAA tournament on Sunday. The Roadrunners will face No. 21 Colorado Mines, which beat Fort Lewis College in Durango, at noon on Friday in Denver.
The Roadrunners improved to 21-1-1 this season; the Bulldogs finished the year with a record of 17-3-2.
Scoring chances were slim early in overtime, but Gabby Klipp flipped the ball over two defenders to Mays in the 96th minute, leaving Mays one on one with Duluth goalkeeper Hannah Bengtson. Mays finished to give Metro State the victory, and the Roadrunners improved to 4-0-1 in overtime this season.
Metro’s most recent overtime goal in the NCAA tournament was scored by current student assistant coach Jaimie Stephenson last season in a 2-1 victory over Regis in Allendale, Michigan.
Mays scored the match’s first goal in the 85th minute to put the Roadrunners ahead 1-0. Ashley Munchiando’s cross was deflected to Jen Thomas, who touched the ball to Mays in front of the net, leaving the striker alone with Bengtson.
But Lauren Graydon tied the game less than a minute later as her left-footed shot from the top of the box hooked inside the top-left corner of the net.
Although all of the scoring happened late, scoring opportunities began early. Bengtson stopped Mays on a point-blank shot just 1 minute, 40 seconds into the match. Thomas connected on Courtney Ryan’s corner kick in front of the net in the 26th minute, but Thomas’ shot missed just left of the net. The Roadrunners held a 6-3 shot advantage in the first half.
Mays had the first good scoring chance of the second half as her header in the 75th minute hit the crossbar off another corner kick from Ryan.
The Bulldogs nearly took a 1-0 lead three minutes later when Reegan Lloyd’s free kick from 25 yards away hit the right post. Graydon scored on the rebound, but UMD was called for offsides.
Metro State had three corner kicks in the 80th and 82nd minutes, the final one leading to a save by Bengtson on a header by Ashley Munchiando.
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