- Courtesy Johnson State Sports Information -
JOHNSON, Vt. - Johnson State freshman Noor Bulle (Burlington, Vt.)
scored the game-winning goal with 1:35 remaining in the second
overtime to lift the Badgers over visiting non-conference foe
Daniel Webster College on Saturday at Minaert Field. The win pushes
Johnson State to 2-1 (0-0 North Atlantic Conference) while the loss
drops DWC to 0-2 (0-0 New England Collegiate Conference).
Alex Jackson (Kent, Ohio) scored the game's first goal at the 7:43
mark taking a long pass from Andre Garcia (Springfield, Mass.) and
beating JSC keeper Steve Noyes (Barre, Vt./Spaulding) to his left
to give Daniel Webster the early lead.
Bulle would score his first goal of the contest just minutes later
at 11:38 of the first half collecting an Alex Komeyan (Essex,
Vt./Essex) feed and knock it home past the Eagles' Joe Keene
(Bristol, N.H.) to knot the game at 1-1.
The team's would battle back and forth and scoreless over the next
89 minutes of play with Daniel Webster holding a 20-19 shot lead
until Bulle's late heroics. Bulle maintained balance and collected
a bounding ball between two DWC defenders, pushed the ball into
open space, and, one-on-one with Keene, deposited the game-winner
to the left corner of the goal to lift the Badgers to the
victory.
Noyes, in his first collegiate start, made six saves to earn the
win for Johnson State while Keene made five stops for Daniel
Webster. Both keepers made outstanding, game-saving stops during
both overtime sessions.
Johnson State will host in-state non-conference Norwich University
on Tuesday, September 15 at 4:00 pm in their next contest while the
Eagles will travel to Fisher College next Saturday the 19th for a
2:00 pm start.
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