Junior Sarah Sylla (Ardsley, NY) scored directly off a corner kick with 11:38 to play in regulation to help the Wesleyan women's soccer team salvage a 2-2, double-overtime tie with visiting Middlebury College in a NESCAC battle Sunday afternoon. The decision leaves the Cardinals with a 5-4-2 overall record and a 2-2-2 mark in the NESCAC.

Middlebury, 3-3-4 and 2-2-3,  jumped on the scoreboard just 4:19 into the game on a goal by junior Adrianna Gildner blasted a shot from the left from 20 yards out the tucked inside the right post. It was Gildner's team-leading fifth of the season.

Fourteen minutes into the game, the Panthers were forced to change goalies when starter Kate Reinmuth injured her hand. Sophomore Emily Eslinger came off the bench to take her place.

The Cardinals tied it at 15:53 thanks to some determination by senior Madeline Keane (Newtown, CT). Keane took a shot off a corner by junior Carly Swenson (Livingston, NJ) that was blocked by a defender in front. The rebound came right back to Keane and she ripped it past a diving Eslinger.

Despite trailing at the half, Wesleyan outshot the Panthers 10-4 and had all four of the game's corner kicks.

Much of the play in the second half was in the midfield. The Cardinals managed to tie it at 78:22 on the second goal of the season by Sylla. The goal was on Sylla's corner kick that looked like it was going to go through the goal mouth, but curled inside the right post at the last second.

Sylla nearly ended it with :30 left when her low shot from five yards was smothered by Eslinger.

Neither team scored in the overtime periods, but the Cardinals made a furious run in the final :30 with a pair of corner kicks, the second of which ticked off the left post and went out of bounds to end the game.

Wesleyan outshot Middlebury 15-12, but the Panthers won the shots on goal battle, 7-6.