Rose Taylor

Junior Rachel Wetzel scored the game-winner with 29 seconds remaining in overtime, as The College of Wooster field hockey team got back in the win column with a 5-4 North Coast Athletic Conference triumph over host Oberlin College on Saturday in Oberlin, Ohio.

Wetzel, who had not scored since the second match of the season, weaved through Oberlin's (0-9, 0-6 NCAC) defensive backfield and was able to push her shot attempt past a charging Kennedy Kline.

The high-scoring affair started quickly, as Maureen Coffey of the Yeowomen fired in the game's first score with just under 25 minutes remaining in the half.

Wooster (2-9, 1-5 NCAC) answered right back with first-year Rose Taylor leading the charge. The forward connected less than two minutes after Oberlin's score to knot the match at one. Taylor struck again less than five minutes later to put the Fighting Scots ahead, connecting on a put-back after her original shot was kicked aside by Kline.

Taylor had a hand in the next score as well. With less than eight minutes remaining in the half, she fed fellow first-year Erika Womack on the fast break to put Wooster ahead 3-1.

The Scots turned to Taylor in the second half as well. After the Yeowomen had tied the contest, Taylor completed her first career hat trick, putting Wooster up 4-3. Oberlin's Emma Broun re-tied the match at four with just under five minutes left in regulation.

Senior Danielle Slichenmyer warded off a pair of quick shot attempts from the hosts at the start of the extra period, and she later recorded a third save in the stanza en route to 10 for the match.

The overtime win was a first for the Scots since a 1-0 triumph over Ohio Wesleyan University on Sept. 10, 2011.

Wooster returns home for its next four matches, the first against Denison University (6-4, 4-2 NCAC) on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.