COLCHESTER, Vt. - Senior Michaela Horne (Southboro, Mass./Algonquin Regional) scored just 2:31 into extra time to lift the Saint Michael's College women's soccer team to a 1-0 overtime victory against Northeast-10 Conference leader and regionally-ranked American International College on Tuesday at Duffy Field.

With the win, the Purple Knights move to 2-8 and 2-6 in league play. The Yellow Jackets, who suffered their first conference loss, fall to 7-3 and 6-1. American International was ranked fifth in the most recent National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) East Region poll and stood atop the 15-team NE-10 standings.

Sophomore goalkeeper Megan LeCours (Barre, Vt./Spaulding) turned away seven shots, including six in the second half, to earn her first clean sheet of the season, while Horne tucked away her initial goal. Saint Michael's, which extended its unbeaten streak at home against AIC to eight games (7-0-1), downed the Yellow Jackets by an identical 1-0 score the last time the teams met on Duffy Field, in 2014, when Horne also provided the winner against an AIC squad that was regionally ranked. Sophomore Madison Brown made two saves on Tuesday for AIC.

Early in the third minute of the overtime period, the Purple Knights were able to force a free kick about 25 yards from goal, as sophomore back Sarah Williams (Bronx, N.Y./The Ursuline School) carried just outside the top of the box before being knocked down. Horne fired a high and hard shot that cleared the defensive wall and soared past a leaping Brown into the top right corner of the net, providing the Purple Knights the golden goal.

At 40:14, AIC graduate student Miko Iida sent a high arching shot off a free kick that LeCours jumped to deflect out of bounds before it could find the top right portion of goal. The teams entered halftime in a scoreless tie, as they combined for only seven shots, with just Iida's reaching target.

In the 53rd minute, first-year Greta Ricigliano (Milwaukee, Wis./Nicolet) fired a dangerous attempt at goal that sailed just wide of the right post. Sophomore Alex Matteo (Tolland, Conn./Tolland) recorded the Purple Knights' first shot on goal at 68:05, but the attempt was turned away by Brown.

At 68:53, a Yellow Jacket hit the crossbar as a scrambling LeCours attempted to make a save. Late in the 80th minute, senior Stephanie Tweer got a great look at goal, but her hard and low shot was gathered by LeCours as she dove low and to her right to trap the ball and deny a rebound opportunity, one of a couple sprawling saves by LeCours in the second half. In the dying seconds of regulation, the Yellow Jackets played a ball into the box toward the right post, but it was cleared to the corner by Williams to ensure the overtime period.

The Purple Knights' next contest is a home game against out of conference opponent Daemen (N.Y.) College on Saturday at 10 a.m.