Pictured Above: Sophomore Marjorie Dehm (Photo by Kostas Lymperopoulos)

Staten Island, NY – Junior attacker Heidi Colford (Eden Praire, MN / MN) scored two goals and added three assists while senior attacker Olivia Streilein (Mt. Laurel, NJ / Lenape) and sophomore midfielder Marjorie Dehm (Baldwinsville, NY / C.W. Baker / Vermont) added two goals each, with Dehm supplying the game-winner off a Colford assist 2:32 into overtime, lifting Wagner to a 9-8 victory over Mount St. Mary's.
 
After opening their Northeast Conference (NEC) schedule with a pair of one-goal losses, today's one-goal triumph moves the Seahawks' league mark to 1-2 and 3-10 overall. With the loss, the Mountaineers fall to 1-2 in conference play and 2-9 overall.
 
In overtime, Wagner junior goalie Kelsy Fee (White Plains, NY / White Plains) denied the potential Mount game-winner by coming up with a save on a Kelly Mahoney shot at the 4:22 mark with the Seahawks gaining possession. The Green &  White then worked the ball downfield and behind the Mount cage where Colford was able to find an open Dehm just in front of net. The first-year Seahawk did the rest, sending a quick shot past goalie Jillian Petito for the game winner.
 
Fee (White Plains, NY / White Plains / Ithaca) came up big in goal throughout for the Seahawks, recording 14 saves in garnering the win. The 14 saves mark the second time in her career that Fee has stopped a double-digit amount of shots and are three saves behind her career-high 17 that she recorded at Saint Joseph's (3/25).
 
Wagner's third-straight nailbiter featured six ties and six lead changes with the biggest lead gained by either team being a two-goal margin when Colford notched an unassisted tally to give the Seahawks a 5-3 edge with 5:24 left in the opening half. The Mount responded with a pair of unanswered goals in forging a 5-5 tie at halftime.
 
The teams opened the second half by alternating the next five goals. After Mount took just its second lead of the game, by an 8-7 count on a Marley Heller score with 7:14 left to play, junior midfielder Lauren Ednie (Verona, NJ / Verona) sank the clutch equalizer. With just one second left on the shot clock, Ednie blasted home an unassisted goal of her own with just 2:43 remaining in regulation to make it an 8-8 game.
 
After the teams went scoreless over the final 2:43 of regulation, Dehm's second goal of the contest, off a feed from Colford, early in the overtime period proved to be the game winner, sending the Seahawks away with the 9-8 victory.
 
Statistically, the Mount outshot Wagner by a 32-30 margin in the tilt and also held an 18-14 advantage on ground balls while teams were even at 9-9 in draw controls.
 
Sophomore midfielder Anna Belle Reilly (Paradise Valley, AZ / Notre Dame Prep) and senior defender Amanda Rey (Turnersville, NJ / Washington Township) rounded out the Seahawk scoring with one goal apiece.
 
Sammie Knapp tallied three goals to pace the Mountaineers in the contest, while Maloney and Tayloe Carhart netted two apiece. Petito took the loss despite making a season-high 15 saves.
 
The Seahawks are next in action on Saturday, April 21 when they host the Sacred Heart University Pioneers in a 3:00 p.m. start at Hameline Field.

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