GREENCASTLE, Ind. – For the second time this season, the Kenyon College field hockey team knocked off the nationally-ranked DePauw University Tigers. Saturday, roughly one month after dealing DePauw a 2-1 loss at McBride Field, the Ladies played on the No. 16 Tigers' home turf and used a shootout to claim a 4-3 win.

The victory keeps Kenyon (12-2, 8-1 NCAC) tied for first place in the North Coast Athletic Conference standings with Denison University (8-3, 8-1 NCAC). The loss dropped DePauw (10-2, 6-2 NCAC) to second place in the standings.

With five conference contests still left in the regular season, Kenyon's 12 wins are just one shy of the team's final output (13-7) from one season ago.

DePauw desperately wanted to avenge its earlier loss to Kenyon and came out swinging. Grace Goodbarn and Maggie Campbell both used assists from Paige Berliner to push the Tigers out to an early 2-0 lead. Kenyon narrowed the gap in the 29th minute when Rachel Hall scored off a Sammy Johnston assist. That goal put a cap on the first-half scoring.

Appropriate adjustments were made during halftime and Kenyon continued its momentum. Within an eight-minute span, Cecilia Depman and Julie Freedman found the back of the Tigers' cage and gave the Ladies a 3-2 edge. Depman was assisted by Shannon Hart and Freedman got help from Maddie Breschi.

That lead held firm until there were three minutes left to go in the game. At that point, DePauw was awarded a penalty stroke, which Paige Henry converted to knot the game at 3-3. Kenyon got one final chance in regulation, but Breschi's shot off a penalty corner was saved by DePauw goalkeeper Sarah Guendert.

In the first overtime period, Henry was awarded another penalty stroke for the Tigers. This time, however, Kenyon goalkeeper Sarah Speroff made the save and kept the Ladies alive. Kenyon went on to out-shoot DePauw 7-6 in the two overtimes combined, but neither team could get one over the goal line so things had to be decided by a five-player shootout.

DePauw went first and Speroff got the best of Henry once again. Henry's shot was aimed at the left post and Speroff, who made a season-high 17 saves for the game, dove to her right to stop it. Breschi then stepped up for the Ladies and scored. DePauw's next shooter scored, but Hall snuck her shot between the legs of Guendert to give Kenyon a 2-1 advantage after two rounds.

DePauw responded again, getting a goal from Campbell and stopping the Ladies' next shot. With the score tied 2-2, the teams went to the fourth round of the shootout. Speroff then stymied Maddy Burns and Freedman came through with a shot into the left side of the cage to give Kenyon a 3-2 lead. In the fifth and final round of the shootout, Goodbarn was put in a do-or-die situation for DePauw. She could not solve Speroff either and the Ladies took the shootout by a 3-2 score.