This week’s honoree as Play of the Week is Susan Galgano’s game-winning goal for the women’s soccer team at Dickinson on Saturday. The important Centennial Conference game was scoreless and appeared to be headed for overtime when Galgano took a back-pass from Nicole Karsch and fired a long shot that was perfectly placed, settling in under the crossbar and inside the post with just 15 seconds left.
Unfortunately, video of the dramatic goal is unavailable. So instead, here is video of a similar goal. On Tuesday at Scranton, fellow senior CJ Graetzer scored on a long shot to give the Mules an early 1-0 lead in a game they would lose in overtime.
Imagine that the field is grass, the markings on the other team’s uniforms are red instead of purple, the wall that says “The University of Scranton” is replaced by a chainlink fence, the game is played in daylight and the shooter is a few inches shorter and has shorter hair – and you basically have Galgano’s goal.
The goal was historic for reasons other than it being the first of Galgano’s career. It is believed to be latest go-ahead goal in program history (records are unavailable for 1991 to 1993, the first three years of women’s soccer at Muhlenberg).
To find the previous record-holder, you’d have to go back 12 years and all the way to Texas. In the second game of the 2001 season, Kim Klicka scored with 29 seconds left to give the Mules a 1-0 win at Schreiner and a split in their opening trip to the Lone Star State.
Including the last-minute scores by Galgano and Klicka, Muhlenberg has nine go-ahead goals in the last 10 minutes of regulation on record:
- 89:45, Susan Galgano vs. Dickinson, 2013
- 89:31, Kim Klicka vs. Schreiner, 2001
- 89:00, Rebecca Armstrong vs. Centenary, 2003
- 88:20, Amy Phelps vs. Moravian, 1994
- 87:33, Nicolette Miller vs. Kean, 2008
- 83:24, Mallory DiMaio vs. Gwynedd-Mercy, 2006
- 83:21, Monica Jones vs. Haverford, 2000
- 81:00, Alyssa Meola vs. Dickinson, 2012
- 80:29, Mallory DiMaio vs.Moravian, 2006