SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts - Tuesday, October 28 represented the last chance for the American International College field hockey team to add to their story at Ronald J. Abdow Field.

Milagros Zanatelli made sure the ending was a happy one.

The senior netted a penalty stroke goal in the third quarter, and then put home the overtime winner as the Yellow Jackets defeated Saint Michael's College, 2-1, in the team's final home Northeast 10 Conference contest. 

AIC was all over the Purple Knights in the first quarter, but NCAA Division II saves record-setter Joelle Cameron was up to the task, making eight saves in the period. The visitors took the lead at 8:01 as Rebecca Wallace-West snapped home her second of the season.

The Yellow Jackets piled up shots and penalty corners, and danced through the visiting defense with seeming impunity, only to be stymied at every turn by Cameron. At halftime, AIC still trailed despite an 11-2 shots on goal edge.

Late in the third, AIC's fortunes finally changed. A great effort off of a penalty corner led to the Yellow Jackets being awarded a penalty stroke. Zanatelli zipped it just past Cameron's stick into the top left of the net, tying the game at 12:18 with her seventh of the year.

AIC continued pounding on the Saint Michael's net into the fourth, but Cameron refused to yield, making 20 saves through regulation; the last stop, on an Anella Rossi bid at 11:17, made her the first goalkeeper in DII history to make 400 saves in a season.

With no winner in regulation, the teams headed to overtime, and AIC finally solved the conundrum in free play. Rossi found Victoria Nelson on the right side of midfield, and the speedy sophomore cut across the middle to reach the left side of the circle before firing a pass just out of Cameron's reach to Zanatelli, who tapped in her eighth of the year at 2:35 to win the game and spark a celebration.

At the other end, Quinlyn Moll made her first collegiate start. The junior had one stop in earning her first NCAA victory.

AIC does have one remaining game, a road tilt at Molloy University at noon on Saturday, November 1.