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Score: Kennesaw State 1, Clayton State 1, 2OT
Records: Kennesaw State (2-1-1), Clayton State (0-0-1)
Key Players: Kim Fincher (one goal, three shots, two shots on goal), Ashley Zambetti (four saves in 110 minutes), Shannon Driscoll (five shots, one shot on goal), Cassidy Kemp (three shots, one shot on goal)
 
KENNESAW, Ga. – In a back-and-forth physical battle, the Kennesaw State soccer team earned a 1-1 double overtime tie with Clayton State on Sunday night (Aug. 30) at Fifth Third Bank Stadium.
 
Junior Kim Fincher got the Owls on the board in the 28th minute of the opening half as she beat her defender down the right flank and finished through the legs of CSU goalkeeper Charlotte McCormack for her second goal of the season and the 1-0 KSU lead.
 
Fincher would come inches from scoring twice more in regulation, but no second goal would come for the home team.
 
The Lakers then evened up the score at 1-1 with just 15 minutes remaining in the second half when Iciar Duran sent a right flank cross into the six-yard box where Brooke Bortles finished with a header to the back of the net.
 
With the match tied at 1-1 through 90 minutes of regulation play, the two teams headed to overtime. In the physical contest, which saw four yellow cards handed out, the Lakers went down to 10 players when Siobhan Wilson was shown a red card on a hard tackle of junior Shannon Driscoll.
 
Despite a number of scoring opportunities in the extra time, McCormack came up big as the score ended in a 1-1 double overtime draw.
 
The Owls will now head on the road for five-straight matches, starting with a trip to Charleston, S.C., for the Charleston Cup next weekend, facing off against College of Charleston on Friday (Sept. 4) at 7 p.m. and The Citadel on Sunday (Sept. 6) at 2 p.m.
 
Quotables
"It was a good game. It was one of those games where we again had a lot of chances early on in the game. They got back into it and got their goal. We still a couple of one v. ones with the keeper and you have to capitalize on those really good chances to put a team like that away. Clayton State is in the mix nationally in NCAA Division II and we expected a tough competition against them. "
- Kennesaw State Head Coach Rob King
 
Notes
- Junior Kim Fincher notched her second goal of the season when she nutmegged the CSU goalkeeper in the 28th minute.
- Fincher now ranks third on the team with six points and a pair of goals in her first season with the Owls.
- Sophomore goalkeeper Ashley Zambetti earned her first start of the season, making four saves in 110 minutes of action.
- With her 110 minutes of action, Zambetti has now played the most minutes of the Owl goalkeepers with 155 minutes of play. She also has recorded the most saves with five stops on the year.
- KSU outshot Clayton State, 18-8, and has now outshot its opponents, 89-22, in 2015.
- The last time the Owls went to double overtime was in the 2014 Atlantic Sun Conference semifinal match against Lipscomb on Oct. 7, 2014. Sophomore Khatra Mahdi scored the game-winning goal in the 107th minute to lift the Owls to victory.
- The last time the Owls earned a double overtime tie was a season ago as well, when KSU and Georgia State played to a 1-1 double overtime draw at Fifth Third Bank Stadium on Aug. 25, 2014.
 
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Fifth Third Bank is the Official Bank of Kennesaw State Athletics. Fifth Third Bank Stadium is the home of women's soccer, women's lacrosse and football, which will play its inaugural season in 2015.