Box Score

Staten Island, NY – Stephanie Boulter's overtime goal gave the visiting Saint Francis (PA) women's soccer team a 2-1 victory over Wagner today in both team's final game of the 2011 regular season.

With the win, the Red Flash (12-6-1; 8-1-1 NEC) clinches the top seed in the conference tournament behind held next weekend. The loss wraps up the Seahawks' 2011 season, falling to 9-8-2 overall and 3-7-0 in the league.

The Seahawks looked to strike first in the opening minutes of the first half, when junior Katie Keown (Morris Plains, NJ / Morristown) connected on a head ball that struck the crossbar and was juggled around the Saint Francis 18-yard box. Classmate Julie Vigliotti (Staten Island, NY / Notre Dame Academy) picked up the loose ball seconds later, but her shot was grabbed by Red Flash keeper Brianna Butcher to keep the game scoreless.

The visitors opened up the scoring in the eighth minute after Traci Flick played a slippery through-ball that split the Wagner defense and left keeper Katie Marcy (Bellmore, NY / John F. Kennedy) one-on-one with forward Tesa McKibben. The NEC's leading scoring added one more to her total, slotting her 14^th goal of the season into the lower left corner to give the Red Flash a 1-0 lead.

Vigliotti was able to get off two more shots in the opening frame, slightly testing Brianna Butcher, but the junior goalkeeper was able corral all four shots faced, taking her team into halftime break with a 1-0 advantage.

Butcher couldn't keep Vigliotti off the score sheet in the second half, as the speedy striker picked up a loose ball that fellow forward Jackie Nicholas (Rockville Centre, NY / South Side) created, and placed her shot into the open net to tie the game at one apiece. The goal marked Vigliotti's team-high sixth tally of the season.

The team's flip-flopped scoring chances throughout the remainder of the second stanza, but neither offense could get anything by their oppositions keepers, as the final regular season game of the 2011 season would be decided in overtime.

Just two and a half minutes into the first extra session, McKibben played a long cross into the box where Boulter was waiting. The sophomore wasted no time blasting her shot into the back of the net, capping off the team's best regular season conference record in school history with the, 2-1, win.

With their 3-7-0 conference record, the Seahawks fall short of the NEC tournament for the 14^th consecutive season. Their 9-8-2 overall record, however, did break the program's record for most wins in a season, dating back to 1997.

Prior to today's match, the Seahawks honor seniors' Terryn Marette (Chevy Chase, MD / Bethesda-Chevy Chase), Kaitlyn Llewellyn (Island Lake, IL / Wauconda) and Jen Emigholz (Staten Island, NY / Moore Catholic) that competed in their final game in the Green & White.