PRINCE ATHLETIC COMPLEX – Despite trailing midway through the third, University of Rochester field hockey leveled the score with just under 10 minutes left in the fourth before walking off in double overtime, 2-1, over the St. Lawrence University Saints on Friday evening at Edwin Fauver Stadium.
 
With the win, Rochester's second double-overtime victory in four games, No. 21 UR moves to 12-3 (2-2 LL) on the year, while the Saints fall to 5-7 (2-2 LL).
 
Honig's game-winner, her fifth of the year, came just under a minute into the second-overtime period after SLU's Cara Vredenburg saved Anya Arseneau's initial attempt on goal. Vredenburg blocked the junior's initial shot on goal with her pads, but Arseneau stuck with it and knocked it over to Honig, who slapped it out of the air and into the back of the net to clinch the 2-1 victory.
 
After a first half that saw just seven total shots, six for Rochester and one for St. Lawrence, the visitors would strike first four-and-a-half minutes into the third period.
 
Rochester's best opportunity of the first half came less than two minutes into the second when Honig found Zoe Conomikes in front of the goal with a cross. Conomikes lifted a shot on goal, but Vredenburg made her second of 16 saves on the afternoon, deflecting Conomikes' attempt away from goal to keep the Yellowjackets and Saints scoreless.
 
Kara Houston faced just one shot in the first half but was forced to make an early save in third. Houston knocked away Maddy Shaw's 32nd-minute attempt, but just minutes later, the Saints took the lead.
 
Sydney LeClair's centering pass found Maggie Spire, who sent the ball towards goal. Caroline Hamilton came through with the deflection, scoring off Spire's assist to break the scoreless tie and give the visitors a one-goal lead with a little over 10 minutes left in the third.
 
Now trailing 1-0, the 'Jackets started to pick things up offensively, earning a trio of penalty corners over the next five minutes, before Hannah Mehta sent a trio of shots in succession toward the goal.
 
Mehta's first attempt in the 40th minute went wide left, while her second was blocked. On her third attempt, the first-year broke through the St. Lawrence defense and sent a blast towards goal, but again, Vredenburg came through with the save.
 
The Yellowjackets headed into the fourth still trailing 1-0, but put the pressure on the Saints' defense early and often, with eight shots and eight penalty corners in the period.
 
Off UR's second penalty corner of the fourth, Kristina Fedorova forced a kick-save from Vredenburg with a left-wing blast, while Arseneau forced yet another save in the 49th minute.
 
Honig had two more attempts, both of which were saved in the 50th minute, while Mehta sent another volley off a UR corner a little over 40 seconds later, but again Vredenburg made the stop.
 
Finally, though, and just shy of the 52-minute mark, Kyla Byer found Conomikes on Rochester's seventh penalty corner of the quarter, and the graduate attacker found the back of the net with a left-wing blast.

With the score now tied at one, each team would take just one shot over the final nine minutes, with Sophia Cuneo forcing a sliding save in the 58th minute, while Houston kept out another shot from Hamilton just before the buzzer.
 
The two sides headed to overtime, and despite dominating the initial overtime period, the Yellowjackets couldn't come up with a score.
 
Conomikes sent an early blast at Vredenburg at the 61:20 mark, while Mehta and Honig saw their shots get blocked by the St. Lawrence defense just seconds later.
 
Four-and-a-half minutes into OT, Abigal Mateer stopped a potential St. Lawrence breakaway and turned it into a fastbreak attempt of her own, dribbling from midfield down towards the goal, but her shot was knocked away, once again by the Saints' defense.
 
In the 68th minute, Conomikes again nearly ended things, with Fedorova finding her ahead for a shot, but it trickled wide.
 
And despite outshooting the Saints, 13-0 in the first-overtime period while holding SLU without a shot, the 'Jackets headed into the second overtime still deadlocked at one with the Saints.
 
Less than two minutes in though, Honig and Arseneau would finish things off, Honig notch her third overtime, game-winner of the year off Arseneau's assist to give the Yellowjackets the 2-1 victory.
 
Individually, Mehta led UR with 11 shots, while Honig tallied nine, with a game-high six on goal. Houston played all 72 minutes in goal, making two saves while allowing just one goal.
 
The Yellowjackets next hit the road to wrap up their weekend, traveling to Saratoga Springs, NY for a Liberty League matchup against Skidmore on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 2:00 p.m.