Ohio Wesleyan 4, DePauw 2

Sept. 6, 2008

Freshman attacker Abigail Walsh (Millville, Mass./Blackstone-Millville) scored to break a 2-2 tie and put Ohio Wesleyan ahead to stay, and freshman attacker Macie Miller (Kettering/Fairmont) added an insurance goal as the Bishops defeated DePauw on Saturday at Selby Field.

With the game tied at 2-2, sophomore attacker Christa Cocumelli (Dublin/Bishop Watterson) led a rush toward the DePauw goal. Cocumelli crossed the ball to Walsh on the right side, and Tiger keeper Liz Attewell came out to break up the play, but the ball got past Attewell to Walsh, whose shot found the open cage with 7:01 left in regulation time.

The Bishops added some insurance in the closing minutes as sophomore defender Hannah Coughlin (Dublin/Scioto) passed the ball from the left side to sophomore attacker Lilly Jianas (Shawnee Mission, Kan./Pembroke Hill), and Jianas's shot was tipped in by Miller near the right post with 4:13 to go.

Ohio Wesleyan had taken a 1-0 lead midway through the first half when Cocumelli sent a centering pass from the right side to freshman attacker Mimi Anthony (Millbrook, N.Y./Millbrook School), who scored from right in front of the DePauw goal with 18:09 left in the period.

The Tigers got that goal back later in the half. DePauw had earned a penalty corner, and Carolyn Mueller fired the ball across the goal mouth to Beth Seegers, who tipped it in at the right post with 5:06 to go.

Jianas gave the Bishops a 2-1 lead at the intermission, knocking home a loose ball from in front of the DePauw goal with 2:19 to go.

DePauw came back midway through the second half as Katie Sowar passed the ball into the circle to Kimberly Trainor, who faked her way past Bishop keeper Krista Murray (Rochester Hills, Mich./University Liggett) and scored into the unprotected goal with 17:36 left in regulation time.

DePauw outshot Ohio Wesleyan, 25-12. Murray finished with 4 saves for Ohio Wesleyan, while Attewell had 4 saves in the Tiger cage.

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