UNION, N.J. - For the second game in a row, sophomore Emma DiPatri capped a dramatic comeback with the game-winning goal, scoring with 15 seconds left in the first half of the second overtime to vault the Drew University women's lacrosse team to a 9-8 victory at Kean University in a non-conference matchup Wednesday afternoon.

DiPatri scooped up a rebound off her own missed shot and quickly rifled it past Cougar goalie Nicole Peters, ending a defensive standoff in which neither side had yielded a goal over the previous 12 minutes. Her goal also capped a 7-0 run by Drew, which trailed 8-2 midway through the third quarter. DiPatri also assisted on Drew's first two goals in the fourth quarter.

Just four days earlier, DiPatri scored the game-winner with two seconds left in a 15-14 Landmark Conference victory at Elizabethtown, where the Rangers erased a five-goal fourth-quarter deficit. 

DiPatri has now had a hand in all three of Drew's last-second or game-ending goals, as she also assisted Jenna Draney on a game-winner versus Stockton with one second left back on March 5.

Drew and Kean also went to overtime in their last meeting, a 10-9 Ranger victory on April 3, 2019. Additionally, the Rangers went to a second overtime for the first time since a 15-14 triple-OT win over Connecticut College on April 17, 2012.

Sophomore Lizzy Barrett, sophomore Ella Champigny, and senior Kendall Hartt scored two goals apiece for the Rangers (8-3) while junior Anna Horne made 12 saves. Senior Meliha Emini contributed with four caused turnovers and four draw controls.

Barrett sparked Drew's comeback, scoring with 6:48 left in the third quarter to make it 8-3. Hartt followed up with 4:56 on the clock and it was an 8-4 game heading into the fourth quarter.

Emini and Draney kept the rally going early in the fourth quarter, scoring 1:21 apart off assists from DiPatri to make it 8-6 with 12:32 remaining. Barrett drew the Rangers to within one with 10:07 remaining, and neither side would score again until Hartt tied it with 3:26 to go.

Kean would win the ensuing draw and promptly earned back-to-back free-position attempts. However, both shots were off the mark, and the Cougars would misfire on three more shots inside the final 15 seconds, sending the game into the first six-minute sudden-death overtime period.

Neither side managed a shot in the first extra session. In the second OT, Kean won the opening draw before hitting the post with a shot. Sophomore Catherine DiPatri picked up the ground ball before her sister did the rest at the other end of the field. 

Champigny scored Drew's first two goals and it was a 2-2 game with 1:03 left in the first quarter. However, that's when the Cougars used a 6-0 run spanning three quarters to assume their 8-2 lead with 7:37 left in the third period. 

Drew returns to Landmark Conference action on Saturday, when it visits Juniata College at noon.