Box Score LYNDHURST, N.J. – Felician College freshman goalkeeper Bjonda Ademi (Wayne, N.J./Wayne Hills) earned a shutout in her first collegiate start, but the Golden Falcons settled for a 0-0 draw after 110 minutes of play against visiting Goldey-Beacom College in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference women's soccer action Saturday evening at the Lyndhurst Recreation Complex.
Felician (2-6-4, 1-3-4 CACC) went to extra time for its fourth consecutive match. Its seventh overtime game and fourth tie of 2013 extended school records.
Felician out-shot the Lightning, 40-8, coming within one of its 15-year-old school record for shots in a game. The Golden Falcons took 15 shots in each half and five in each extra session. They also held an 11-1 advantage in corner kicks.
But the hosts could not get a ball past Goldey-Beacom junior Michelle Foster (West Berlin, N.J./Overbrook). A regular at midfield making her first appearance of the season in net, Foster made 16 saves, including four after regulation. A GBC defender also cleared a ball off the goal line. Golden Falcon senior striker Alysia Arcona (Hackettstown, N.J./Hackettstown, N.J.) hit the crossbar in the 23rd minute, and sophomore midfielder Marissa Nieves (Brick, N.J./Brick Memorial) saw a shot bound off a post in the 50th.
Foster forced overtime when she denied Felician junior defender Kristen Toropiw (Hopatcong, N.J./Hopatcong) from close range in the closing seconds of regulation. The Lightning nearly stole the victory in the 103rd minute, when, following her team's only corner kick of the night, junior forward Alexandra Smith (Pennsville, N.J./Pennsville Memorial) attempted a shot over her head with her back to the goal. But with her heels just in front of the goal line, Ademi reached up and leaned back slightly and made the save. Foster then turned back a Nieves offering with fewer than 30 seconds to play.
Arcona finished with 13 shots, one short of a Felician individual single-game record, but was stopped seven times by Foster. Smith led the Lightning with four shots.
Ademi was credited with four saves.
Felician played in its first scoreless tie since Sept. 22, 2004, against Georgian Court University. It was the first such result for the Lightning since Oct. 9, 2004, at Dominican (N.Y.) College.
