BOX SCORE

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - Bowdoin's Ellery Gould scored the game-winner three minutes into overtime to give the Polar Bear women's soccer team a key NESCAC win over Wesleyan on Saturday. Gould, who has 10 goals this season, has scored six goals in the last four games.

Following a Bowdoin corner, Gould took the ball in front of the net and dodged a crowd, firing in the ball from close range just past Wesleyan freshman goalkeeper Kate Connolly-Smithwick, who had seven saves in the contest. Gould had given Bowdoin a 1-0 lead in the 68th minute when she put in another shot from close range off a pass from senior tri-captain Dana Riker, the team's second-leading scorer. Wesleyan later tied the game in the 73rd minute as freshman Kaylin Berger dodged a pair of Bowdoin defenders at the top of the box and fired a shot into the lower-left corner of the net for her first career goal.

Bowdoin dominated the stat sheet in the first half, outshooting Wesleyan 7-2 and taking five corners to the hosts' none—part of an 11-1 Bowdoin edge in that category—but both shots on net were stopped by Connolly-Smithwick. Wesleyan did not get its first shot of the contest until the 29th minute, when junior Dasha Battelle fired a shot from the top of the box that was saved by Bowdoin netminder Kat Flaherty along the left side of the goal. Flaherty made a pair of saves in goal for the Polar Bears.

Wesleyan had a chance to take the lead in the 87th minute after Flaherty was assessed a yellow card for a hand ball outside the box, but the ensuing shot by senior co-captain Beth Kenworthy was blocked by the Bowdoin wall and sailed out of bounds.