Courtesy of Hamilton Sports Information

CLINTON, N.Y. – Sarah Duffy '14 (Fairfield, Conn.) scored her seventh goal of the season with 12.8 seconds remaining in the second sudden-victory overtime period to give Amherst a 2-1 road win over Hamilton.

Improving to 5-0-0 (3-0-0 NESCAC) on the year, the Lord Jeffs are off to their best start since the 2006 season. Only Amherst's 1979 squad ever started the year by winning its first six games. 

Hoping to take an early lead, Hamilton's Alex Rimmer '13 played the ball back to Charlotte Cosgrove '13, whose blast from 25 yards out glanced off the bottom of the crossbar and into the Amherst goal at 20:28. 

The first score the Lord Jeffs have allowed all season, Cosgrove's second marker of 2011 snapped senior Allie Horwitz's (Woodbridge, Conn.) streak of 376:48 consecutive scoreless minutes in net.

Undaunted, Amherst pushed forward and eventually netted the equalizer in the 42nd minute when Chloe McKenzie '14 (Upper Marlboro, Md.) tracked down a rebound off of a Duffy shot, beating Hamilton goalkeeper Liza Gergenti '14 for her first tally of the year.

With either team unable to push across the go-ahead goal in the second half or the first extra session, the game went to a final 10-minute overtime period.

Still looking for the game winner with time winding down, Duffy dribbled through several Hamilton defenders before lofting a perfectly placed shot from the top right corner of the penalty area that sailed over Gergenti's head and into the Continental net.

Gergenti finished with 11 saves for Hamilton, while Horwitz recorded four stops. Amherst, which held a 20-12 shot advantage, returns to action against Trinity on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 4:30 p.m.

With the win the Lord Jeffs are now 3-0 all-time against the Continentals, having won their previous two matchups in 1993 and 1994 by scores of 3-1 and 3-0, respectively.