Eastern University Field Hcoeky and the Alvernia College Crusaders met in the PAC Championship game fro the second straight year. Regulation play was not enought to determine a winner and the Alvernia College Crusaders emerged with a win in penalty strokes. First year midfielder Hope Donnelly scored a pair of goals for the Eagles.

Alvernia jumped out to an early lead in the sixth minute when Janelle Lynch ripped a shot from the left side of the net that was quickly redirected for a goal by freshman Christy Yousaitis . The Crusaders held of the Eagles attack for the next 22 minutes despite Eastern's seven penalty corners and five shots. Eastern would break-though with the equalizer in the 28th minute when Donnelly  drilled one into the net off of a penalty corner.

The Eagles held the slight 6-4 advantage in shots after the first half and the decisive 7-1 edge in penalty corners.

With the game tied at one apiece entering the second half,  Donnelly  gave Eastern their first lead of the game less than two minutes into the second half. She recovered Stephanie Moyer's rebound and placed it just past Crusader goalie Audrey Hoffman  for her second goal of the game.

Alvernia would battle hard through the second half with Hoffman needing eights saves to hold Eastern at only two goals. The Crusaders seemed poised to net the tying goal when they earned six penalty corners over a late-game 12-minute span. However, they were unable to capitalize on these corners until the 69th minute when Amber Landis  passed in the penalty corner ball to Lynch who quickly fired a shot from the top of the circle that was blocked by an Eastern defender. Senior midfielder Lynsey Treadwell  was right there to follow-up Lynch with a shot on goal that had Eastern's goalie beat, but the Eagle defense would pull through with a defensive save to deny Treadwell the game-tying goal. Lynch then followed up Treadwell and popped a high shot in for  game tying goal with 1:30 left in the game.

The game would head into the first overtime knotted at two. Both teams managed two shots in the 15-minute overtime with none more dangerous than the blast off the stick of Yousaitis in the 78th minute, which was saved by Eastern goalie Kelly Garland.

Alvernia and Eastern would regroup and gear up for the second overtime. The Crusaders held the 4-2 advantage in shots as well as the 2-0 edge in penalty corners. Junior Christy Miller (Alburtis, PA/Brandywine Heights) had Alvernia's best chance when she missed just left of the goalie in the 91st minute.

The evenly match teams would continue their scoreless trend into penalty strokes, as both teams managed to score only one out of their first five chances, and two out of their second five chances.

Eastern appeared to be in control in the second penalty shot round as they were successful on their first two shots and Alvernia was scoreless in their first two. Hoffman would keep the Crusaders in the game with the help of a stick save, a wide-left shot by Eastern and a pad-save on their final three attempts. Freshman Ashley Tatangelo was successful on Alvernia's fourth shot and senior Landis forced the sudden-death shootout when she netted Alvernia's fifth attempt.

Tatangelo would once again step to the line for the Crusaders and connect for her third successful penalty stroke of the afternoon for the eventual game-winner.

Hoffman earned PAC Championship Game MVP honors for her 13-save game and her stirring performance in the shootout. Eastern finishes the year at 15-6. Neither Alvernia nor Eastern will return to the PAC Final next year as the two will continue their rivalry as members of the MAC.