Nov,. 15, 2011 -- The end took your breath away.
One moment the Haddonfield girls were battling evenly for a spot in Saturday's state final at TCNJ. In the next, Robbinsville's Christine Levering took a perfect pass from Erin Sutphen on the right and put the shot where coaches hope all their players will shoot - low and into the left corner beyond the reach of Haddonfield keeper Kellie Riley 3:16 into the first OT.
Golden goal. Game over, season over and in the case of many seniors, soccer career over.
The girls probably didn't think of it this way when it ended, but it was quite a season for Haddonfield. A 24-2 slate with the two losses coming to Group 4 state champion Lenape in the South Jersey Coaches Cup final and Group 2 runner-up Robbinsville in the state semi-final is nothing to be ashamed of.
Haddonfield took an early lead in the game at Bishop Eustace on Maddie Kiep's header off a corner from Kylie Kirk in the 8th minute, then had two more chances in the next five minutes but failed to build the lead. Levering tied the score seven minutes into the second half and the momentum swung to the Ravens. Other than a shot by Kirk with 21:40 left that Robbinsville defender Mollie O'Kane cleared off the line, Robbinsville had the better of the play and did not win in regulation largely due to the stellar play of Kellie Riley in the Haddonfield goal.
So Haddonfield went home for the year and Robbinsville advanced to the final at The College of New Jersey, where it lost, 2-1 to Ramsey - on a golden goal.
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