After trailing 9-5 at the break, Temple outscored Rutgers 6-1 in the second stanza to earn a 11-10 victory on Friday night on Rutgers' Yurack Field. The win evens the Owls record at 4-4, while the Scarlet Knights drop to 5-5.
Nicole Cataldo scored two goals, including the game-winner, while Corey Leader netted two goals and dished one assist. Allison Frengs also had two goals. Berkley Summerlin, Whitney Richards, Casey Cech, Patty Glavin and Nicole Caniglia each added one goal a piece. Whitney Richards led the Owls with three assists. Johna Capaldo and Summerlin rounded out the Temple assist column.
Michelle Poole got Rutgers on the board first after taking a feed from Katie Batiuk. This was the first of seven points that Batiuk would earn in the first half, as she went on to score four goals and dish three assists. Caniglia made it 1-1 two minutes later after catching a pass from Richards. Richards hit Frengs at 24:55 to put Temple up 2-1 but the Scarlet Knights scored two goals in the next 15 seconds to make it 3-2 Rutgers. Batiuk made it 4-2 at 22:42 but Cataldo answered four minutes later to keep it close. The teams traded goals for the remainder of the half, with a Whitney Richards free position goal, making it 7-5 at 5:39 but the Scarlet Knights netted two tallies to end the half and take a 9-5 lead at the break.
The second half was all Temple as the Owls scored five unanswered goals coming out of the locker room. Summerlin converted a free position shot at 27:55 to make it 9-6 and Cech added an unassisted goal less than a minute later to close the gap to two. Leader tied the score at 9 with back-to-back unassisted goals at 17:51 and 16:42 and Glavin gave the Owls the lead with a goal at 12 minutes. Kate Shomo tied it up at 6:47 after taking a pass from Michelle Poole but Temple wasn't finished. Richards hit Cataldo who fired a shot past Rutgers' goalie Sandra Abel at 6:01, giving the Owls an 11-10 advantage. Temple controlled the ball for the remainder of the half to pull out the win.
Temple goalie Caitlin Gregory earned seven saves on the day, while Abel had nine.
Temple returns home to face nationally-ranked Princeton on Tuesday, April 4 at 4 p.m.
