Wake Forest University
Maryland
Field Hockey Falls to Maryland in Overtime of NCAA Semifinals
11/17/2001 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Nov. 17, 2001
Kent, Ohio - With less than a minute remaining until the game would go into penalty strokes, Maryland's Colleen Barbieri scored her second goal of the game to give the Terps a 3-2 double overtime victory over Wake Forest in the semifinals of the 2001 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship in Kent, Ohio. The Deacons finish their season with a record of 16-5, while Maryland moves to 20-3. The Terps will face the Michigan Wolverines in the championship game on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Wake Forest got on the board first when junior Maria Whitehead found a rebound and put it in the net with a diving shot less than seven minutes into the game. Maryland tied the score at 1-1 when Rachel Hiskins scored from the short corner. The Deacons got back on top with 16:52 to play in the first half when Whitehead and junior Heather Aughinbaugh set up a corner for sophomore Kelly Doton who drove the ball into the goal to give the Deacons a 2-1 advantage.
In the second half, the Deacons appeared to be headed to their first-ever national championship game, but with 6:38 remaining, Maryland's Dina Rizzo found Barbieri for the game-tying score.
The teams went into a 15-minute, 7-on-7, sudden-victory overtime and played 15 minutes of scoreless hockey. The teams began another 15-minute overtime and it appeared that the game would have to be decided by penalty strokes, but with 57 seconds remaining in the second overtime period, Rizzo again found Barbieri, who found the net and Maryland advanced to play for their fourth national championship.
"It hurts to play as well as we did and come up shorthanded," said Wake Forest head coach Jennifer Averill. "We had opportunities to finish and that hurt the most. In my little world, I feel like we just played the championship game."
Wake Forest finished the season by winning 13 of its last 15 games, with both of those losses coming to Maryland.
