KENT, Wash. — As the Gators scrambled to find a late equalizer, Clark College turned the match upside down when they scored in the 87th minute to take the 3-1 lead. However, this would not be the last score of the Friday afternoon game.
Clark had a 2-0 lead by the 14th minute. GRC was able to answer in the 24th minute when
Riley Burns found the back of the net after a
Bria Alabe cross made it to Burns in the middle of the box. Burns controlled the cross before booting the ball past the Penguin goalie with her left foot. This was Burns' first collegiate goal and Alabe's fourth assist of the season.
The score remained the same for the next 63 minutes when Clark scored to go up 3-1.
The Gators would not go away quietly. In an all-out dash to respond,
Jiwoo Kim scored her second goal of the season in the 89th minute to shrink the Penguin lead to one.
Autumn Carroll had the assist on the broken play with the Clark keeper out of position, her seventh on the year; Kim was there to send the Carroll cross in to the back of the goal.
In the 90th minute,
Jazmyne DuBose took a shot which missed wide right. Alabe was there for the rebound to keep the ball in bounds. She passed the ball to the top of the box to Kim, who tapped a pass to
Natalya Huffaker, who then juked a Clark defender and found the bottom right corner of the goal with a kick of her left foot. The game was tied 3-3. Only three minutes ago, GRC was down two goals. The assist from Kim was her first on the season.
The match would end locked at 3-3. Huffaker's last-second header to take the lead sailed out of bounds.
This was the fifth draw of the season for Green River, who now sit at 7-5-5 overall and 5-4-5 in the West.
The Green and black play their final two games of the season next week. Wednesday the 28th against Centralia at Wilson Playfields and Saturday against South Puget Sound CC at Auburn Riverside High School for Sophomore Day.
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