ST. DAVIDS, Pa.— CJ Summa scored 34 seconds into overtime, and Eastern University Field Hockey earned a hard-fought 4-3 home non-league win over the visiting Stockton University Ospreys. The Eagles (6-4) came up with several spectacular defensive plays and got goals from four different scorers on the way to their sixth win of the year.

Stockton (6-5) found opened the scoring with a persistent effort on a  12th-minute penalty corner.  Kasey Agnew made a defensive save on a hard first shot, and Angelina Catania stopped a second effort, but Stockton forward Makayla Alessi hammered home a rebound for a lead. The Ospreys would show more of that persistence late in the game when they rallied from two goals down to tie the game with a pair of tallies less than a minute apart.

The Eagles found an equalizer on a penalty-corner goal midway through the second quarter. Agnew created the first corner with a stellar feed to Morgan Unruh in a deep position. After Unruh played the ballot a defender's foot for a corner, Karlee Howard crushed a hard shot that popped off the goalkeepers pads in a dangerous way for a second corner. Abby Hakes played the insert, and Jenna Raider smashed an early shot through traffic and off a Stockton defender to draw level.

Stockton had a 15-4 edge in first-half shots, but Catania and the Eastern defense kept the game level. That task would become more difficult as the already short-handed Eastern defensive group lost Agnew to injury for the rest of the game in the final seconds of the half.

Karlee Howard created a penalty corner early in the third. The junior forward cashed in o n the chance with a high strike on a good feed from Kara Frantz. It was Howard's seventh goal of the year. The two teams traded chances through the rest of the third, but the score remained at 2-1 heading to the final 15 minutes of regulation.

The fourth quarter had a little bit of everything.

The first big thing was a penalty stroke chance for the guests. With 12 and a half minutes left, Catania was called for a foul while coming off her line to challenge for a ball in the circle. Catania read the stroke and got a solid blocker on the shot to keep the Eagles up a goal.

Less than two minutes later, the Ospreys had another golden opportunity after a restart in the midfield. Julia Potter, in for Agnew, saw the Stockton shot beat Catania but kept moving and pushed the ball off the goal line for a huge defensive save.

With less than ten minutes to play the Eagles pushed their edge to two goals on a beautifully worked penalty corner. As they did in the first half, the Eagles got a two-for-one opportunity after a high clearance on an initial corner. On the second, Hakes started the sequence with the insert and delivered the final pass across the goal after touches from Frantz, Reider, and Howard. Unruh dove at the cross and touched it in from close distance.

Up 3-1, the Eagles dropped a little deeper, and the Ospreys took two quick shots and broke through with a nice combination to pull within a goal at 3-2. Only seconds later, the Eagles went down a player for two minutes, and Stockton took advantage to tie the game.

A late Stockton green card gave he Eagles two minutes with an extra player. Eastern threatened but could not find the game winner.

So, for the third consecutive Wednesday, the Eagles went to overtime. With that experience, the Eagles had a positive group huddle and came out with a veteran line-up for the 7-on-7 overtime.

Stockton pushed the ball into Eastern end where Paige Brouse needed to make a big one-on-one stop in space. The senior defender did her work and pushed the ball wide. Hakes lifted a low pass into space. Unruh beat a first defender and earned the circle with a strong move on the right side. She feathered a pass into the scoring area, and Summa slotted home her seventh goal of the season. She also tallied the overtime game-winner last Wednesday.

The win today was the first over Stockton since 2015. The Ospreys had won eight straight int he series and had outscored Eastern 20-3 in the last four matches. Stockton came into today's games on the heels of three-straight wins over MAC Commonwealth teams. They had beaten Widener, Albright, and Alvernia.

Catania finished with 10 saves. 

The Eagles will have a week to recover before taking  hosting Ramapo next Wednesday and hosting the Hood College Blazers in the MAC Commonwealth opener on Homecoming Saturday.