GLENSIDE, PA – The Wilkes University women's soccer team scored two late second half goals to force overtime and eventually ended up tying No. 14 Arcadia University 2-2 Saturday in a non-conference road game.

Megan Lercara (Plains, PA/James M. Coughlin) scored her first career goal to make the score 2-1 in the 77^th minute with a penalty kick strike. Emily Bidelspach (Myerstown, PA/ELCO) then tied the game in the 87^th minute with her second goal of the season. Samantha Cecere (Batavia, NY/Batavia) also had her hand in the tie as she recorded a career-high 15 saves in goal for the Colonels.

Wilkes moved to 2-3-1 overall this season while nationally ranked Arcadia now stands at 5-1-2.

After the Knights scored two goals by the 8:03 mark of the first half the Colonels needed to dig deep if they wanted to mount a comeback. Cecere started that by keeping Wilkes within striking distance with eight first-half saves.

Wilkes turned things around offensively in the second half as the Colonels were able to outshoot the Knights 9-5 over the second 45 minutes. Haley Evans (Deptford, NJ/GCIT) and Nicolette Towlen (Ewing, NJ/Ewing) had shots that were saved early in the second half but it showed a change in the game flow as Wilkes began to pressure the Arcadia backline.

Cecere made saves in the 68^th and 75^th minutes to keep the deficit at just two goals before Lercara stepped up for the penalty kick goal to break the ice for the Colonels.

Bidelspach's game-tying goal came just 3:07 before the final horn and shortly after an Evans corner kick.

In the first 10-minute overtime period Cecere made two saves to extend the game into a second 10-minute overtime frame. Cecere made another save in the 103^rd minute and the final Wilkes chance of the game came in 104^th minute when an Allison Peet (Sayre, PA/Sayre) header went wide.

The Colonels remain on the road for their next contest when they travel to the University of Scranton for a non-conference game on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.