Shippensburg, PA - Seventy minutes weren't enough as the Messiah field hockey team battled the Division II No. 4 Shippensburg Raiders on Thursday night. After playing a scoreless regulation, the Raiders connected off a penalty corner 53 seconds into overtime to earn the 1-0 victory.

Katylyn Grazan started the play for Shippensburg by inserting a ball to Kylie Huffman. Huffman collected the pass and dribbled to the right before firing a shot that found the back of the cage. The game-winner was Huffman's first goal of the season.

In the early going, opportunities were tough to come by as the Falcons and Raiders were extremely evenly matched. Through the first-half the two teams had combined for four shots and six penalty corners.

The Raiders earned a penalty corner just four minutes into the game. The corner resulted in a shot by Molly Stuart, but it was blocked before it had a chance at the cage. The Falcons earned two penalty corners of their own in the eighth and 12th minutes, but neither corner resulted in a shot for Messiah.

In the 17th minute the Raiders earned a penalty corner that resulted in another blocked shot, this one by Kylie Huffman.

In the 29th minute the Falcons finally recorded their first shot. Off of their third penalty corner of the half, Kaylor Rosenberry sent a shot wide of the cage. The shot was the Falcons' first of the game and the first offensive attack for either side in over 12 minutes.

While much of the first-half was played in the midfield, the Falcons did have the most dangerous opportunity of the half. Less than a minute before halftime, Karalyn Schmidt fired a shot off of a penalty corner that was saved by Shippensburg's goalie Taylor Webster. The save kept the game scoreless heading into the break.

At the half, Messiah held a 4-2 advantage in penalty corners but the two teams tied in shots at two a piece.

Less than four minutes after the break, Carissa Gehman had Messiah's first chance of the second-half; Webster turned her shot away. Messiah continued to pressure Shippensburg with three shots off a penalty corner, two by Rosenberry and one by Moriah Pfautz. Webster saved one shot, another was blocked, and the third kept out of the cage on a defensive save.

On a counter, the Raiders quickly went the other way. Messiah's goalie Shelby Landes made a save in the 43rd minute and another Shippensburg shot went wide in the 45th minute.

After a flurry of excitement to begin the second-half, the pace slowed down substantially with neither team taking a shot for almost 20 minutes. In the 64th minute Gehman took her second shot of the half, but it was saved by Webster. With two minutes remaining in regulation, Emily Rubright had a shot blocked before it could scare the cage.

Rubright's shot was the final attempt of regulation and the Raiders and Falcons headed to overtime, scoreless.

Less than a minute into overtime, the Raiders earned a penalty corner and Huffman scored from the right side for the game winner.

Despite the tough loss, the Falcons outshot the Raiders 8-5 (5-2 on goal) and earned more corners 5-4 in the contest.

The loss moves the Falcons' all-time overtime record to 44-22-7.

With the loss the Falcons snap their six-game win streak, and fall to 8-5 on the season. Messiah will next take the field on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. when the Widener Pride travel to Grantham for homecoming.