SEAN MCGRATH
Sports Editor
The women’s Blue Devil soccer team started this past week with a 2-1 victory over Allegheny College, followed by a double overtime 1-1 tie against the Oswego Lakers and a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the Cortland Red Dragons.
Sophomore Katie Kleine managed to take four shots and scored both goals, including the overtime winner to lift the Blue Devils over the Allegheny College Gators. The two goals were her fourth and fifth of the season.
Kleine’s overtime goal came on a nice cut-to-the-net move that she was able to lift the ball up and over the Gator goalkeeper.
Junior Lindsey Forness managed eight saves in the victory.
On Friday, the Kleine sisters were key to walking out with a 1-1 tie played through two overtimes.
After a Fredonia own-goal cost the women the lead, Katie Kleine fed the ball to her sister, senior Kristie Kleine, who put the ball into the net to regain an even game.
Forness made nine saves in net to keep the score locked at one.
After two overtime periods, the score remained unchanged, and that was the song the fat lady sang.
On Saturday, the ladies fell victim to a three-goal effort by Cortland’s Danielle Tyrell. Kristie Kleine had the best attempt for Fredonia, a close-up shot that the Cortland keeper managed to get a hand on and divert its direction.
Forness made eight saves on Saturday to try and keep Fredonia in the game.
At the final whistle, Fredonia trailed the Red Dragons by a final score of 3-0.
The ladies now stand at 5-6-1 overall and 2-2-1 in SUNYAC, good for a fifth place tie with Plattsburgh in SUNYAC standings and head out to the trip to the north this weekend, taking on Plattsburgh and Potsdam in their territory.