Williams Field Hockey, Women's Soccer Work Overtime in League Playoffs

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Pilar Torres scored in overtime Saturday to give the Williams College field hockey team a 3-2 win over Wesleyan in the first round of the NESCAC tournament.
 
Molly Hellman and Meaghan Boehm scored for Williams, which overcame a 1-0 deficit but gave up a goal late in the fourth quarter.
 
Williams (10-6) will play either Bates or Bowdoin on Saturday at Middlebury in the conference semi-finals.
 
Men's Soccer
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Ryan Grady made five saves to backstop Middlebury to a 2-0 win over Williams in the first round of the NESCAC tournament.
 
Ben Diffley made four saves for Williams (8-6-2).
 
Women's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Jaquelin Nordhoff scored in the last minute of regulation and secured a 4-2 win in a penalty kick shootout as Williams advanced past Hamilton in the first round of the NESCAC tournament.
 
The Continentals led from the seventh minute on, but Nordhoff's goal with 42 seconds left gave Williams a 1-1 tie.
 
Williams (9-3-4) plays an opponnent to be determined in the conference semi-finals on Saturday at Amherst.
 
Cross Country
AMHERST, Mass. -- The Williams men and women each took home a title at the NESCAC Championships on Saturday.
 
Senior John Lucey was the top individual in the men's race. Classmate Genna Girard won the women's race.
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Williams' Kirshe, U.S. Women Earn Historic Bronze Medal

In dramatic fashion Tuesday, the U.S. women's rugby sevens and Williams College graduate Kristi Kirshe beat Australia, 14-12, to win the bronze medal at the Paris Olympic Games.
 
Alex Sedrick made a run from deep in the Americans' defensive zone for a try with time expired to erase a 12-7Si deficit against the favored Aussies.
 
Kirshe, who dominated Team USA's quarter-final victory on Monday to get to the medal round, started and played the length of Tuesday's semi-final loss and the third-place win.
 
After Australia, the 2016 gold medalist, was shocked by Canada in the semi-finals, the Wallabies jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first two minutes of the bronze match.
 
With just more than a minute left in the first half, America's Alev Kelter scored a try off a restart from the 5-meter line, and the conversion tied the score, 7-7, going to half-time.
 
Early in the second half, Australia appeared to be going in for a try to take the lead, but a fumble through the try zone gave the ball back to the Americans.
 
Australia did break through about three minutes later, scoring with 1 minute, 41 seconds left on the clock to take the 12-7 lead.
 
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