Senior forward Lauren Hill scored late in the second half, but Santa Barbara’s Erin Ortega answered minutes later as the MSU women’s soccer team tied Santa Clara, 1-1, Thursday night at Santa Clara.
Neither team scored until Hill, the reigning Co-Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, followed her own shot and put it inside the left post at the 63:46 mark for a 1-0 MSU lead.
But Ortega scored shortly thereafter, at the 66:24 mark, to tie the game. Each team had one shot a piece in the two overtime sessions.
MSU out-shot the Gauchos 4-3 in the first half, but Santa Barbara had nine shot attempts to the Spartans’ five in the second. Flietstra had four saves, while Hill’s goal was her team-leading fourth of the season.
The Spartans (2-0-1) make their return to DeMartin Stadium at Old College at 1 p.m. Sunday against Central Michigan.
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