RIVER FALLS, Wis. — For the second time in as many games, the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's soccer team had to work a little overtime Wednesday afternoon in its nonconference game against UW-River Falls.
 
Fortunately for the Cardinals, this time around, the ending was much more to their liking.
 
Thanks to Natalie Ruegsegger's (Billings, Mont.) first collegiate goal.
 
The Cardinals, who dropped a heartbreaking 2-1 overtime decision to St. Olaf last Saturday—surrendering the game-winning goal with two seconds remaining in the extra period—got a goal from Ruegsegger 2:32 into OT to lift Saint Mary's to a 1-0 victory over the host Falcons at Remer Field.
 
After failing to record a goal in the game's opening 90 minutes—thanks in part to the play of Saint Mary's goalkeeper Zoe Boleneus (Spokane, Wash.) and her Falcon counterparts Amanda LaDue and Haley Crosby—the Cardinals finally broke through in the 92^nd minute, as Ruegsegger headed an Emily Loof (Colorado Springs, Colo.) pass past Crosby for the game's only goal.
 
Boleneus finished with five saves en route to her first collegiate shutout in a Cardinal uniform, while LaDue made six saves in 82:13, while Crosby surrendered the game's lone goal, and did not make a save, in just over 10 minutes of relief action.
 
The Cardinals (5-3-0 overall) are back on the road on Saturday, traveling to Edor Nelson Field in Minneapolis, Minn., for a 1 p.m. conference game against Augsburg.