Princeton Women 2nd XV win at the buzzer

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Brown B's lost a heartbreaker to the Princeton B's after leading most of the match.

Princeton opened the scoring early in the match driving over from 5 meters out and a 5-0 win. Both teams played back and forth for the rest of the first half. The second half started well with center Patti Epko '15 racing 60 meters for the score. Patti broke 4 tackles on her way to scoring under the posts. Both teams barely had time to catch their breath before Patti found another opportunity and took off for a 70 meter try, breaking tackles and running through the last of the Princeton defense. Brown led 10-5 and looked good.

Princeton fought back scoring their own tackle breaking try and coming back 12-10. But Brown responded with a beautiful series of runs started by powerful running from number 8 Jessica Sawadogo '14 who brought the ball down to the 10 meter, the ball moved down the line and Patti Epko sent fullback Allison Hojsak '14 through for the score.

Erica Florenz converted and Brown led 17-12. With minutes left a Princeton wing found space and scored the winning try 19-17.