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BABSON PARK, Mass. – Babson College senior co-captain Colleen Kelly (Milton, Mass.) scored the game-winning goal with 2:16 remaining in the first overtime to lift the Beavers to a dramatic 2-1 victory over visiting Bates College in a non-conference field hockey contest at MacDowell Field on Sunday afternoon. With the goal, Kelly became just the fifth player in Babson field hockey history to reach 100 career points, as she now boasts 32 goals and 37 assists for 101 total points.

With their eighth win in the last nine games, the Beavers improved to 10-3 on the season, while the Bobcats fell to 2-7 overall.

Bates struck first in the opening period, as junior Sarah Merullo (Essex, Mass.) pulled the ball out of a scramble in front of the cage and ripped a drive toward the lower left corner. Babson junior goalie Jess Pashos (Winchester, Mass.) managed to get her stick on it with a dive to her right, but the ball trickled just over the goal line inside the left post for the game's first goal at 20:37.

Babson had numerous chances to tie the game in the second half, but Bobcats senior goalie Katie McEnroe (Hockessin, Del.) made several outstanding saves to keep the hosts off the board. She made a tremendous kick save on a drive toward the right corner by Babson first-year Morgan Lockwood (Feeding Hills, Mass.) in the 52nd minute, and then denied another bid by Lockwood from in front of the cage less than six minutes later. However, the senior keeper's best save of the day came with just under 10 minutes to go in regulation, when Babson junior Courtney Weaving (New Preston, Conn.) fed the ball to a wide-open Lockwood in the middle of the circle. The Beavers' star rookie then ripped a shot from point-blank range, but McEnroe came charging out of net and made a sprawling save to preserve the Bobcats' lead.

The Beavers finally broke through in the 63rd minute of play, beginning when Lockwood took another hard shot from the right side that was saved by McEnroe. The rebound kicked out to the middle of the circle, where Weaving blasted her 10th goal of the season into an open cage to tie the game at 1-1 with 7:33 remaining in regulation. Babson then had a golden opportunity to seal the victory with a little over four minutes left, but Weaving's blast from the right side hit the right post and was cleared by a Bates defender.

Both teams had great scoring chances in the overtime period, including two just 23 seconds apart. Kelly had an open look from the top of the circle that was denied by a kick save from McEnroe at 72:23, and after Bates took the ball the length of the field, Pashos made a nice kick save on a shot by Bobcats' junior Lyndsay Beaton (West Newbury, Mass.) at 72:40.

After earning their third penalty corner of the overtime period and 13th of the game, Babson finally clinched the victory in the 83rd minute. Senior co-captain Sarah Fredlund (New Preston, Conn.) inserted the ball to junior Anneliese Brosch (Essex, Mass.), who flicked a pass to Kelly on the left side. The two then executed a perfect give-and-go that gave Kelly an open look from the top of the circle, where she ripped a shot past McEnroe and into the center of the cage for the game-winning goal at 82:44.

Pashos finished with eight saves in net for Babson, while McEnroe turned away 12 shots for Bates.

With her ninth goal of the season, Kelly joined two-time All-American Elise Conley (187), current teammate Sarah Fredlund (132), former teammate Jess Paladino (125), and Andrea Tufts (100) as the only players in program history to reach the 100-point mark.