BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Maritime junior Gayle Woods (East Greenbush, N.Y./Columbia) scored the go-ahead game-winning goal with 21 seconds left in regulation as the Privateers Women's Soccer team knocked off the York (N.Y.) Cardinals by the score of 2-1 on Thursday evening from the Aviator Complex.
 
For Woods, it was her first goal of the season after leading the team with 15 as a sophomore in 2015. The goal was the latest game-winning tally ever scored in a match in program history for the Privateers.
 
Senior Staci Evans (Smithtown, N.Y./Hauppauge) got the Privateers on the board in the 71st minute to open the scoring for both sides on the night. Freshman Kayla Kelly (South Setauket, N.Y./Ward Melville) had the first point of her career with an assist on Evans' goal.
 
In goal, sophomore Cammie Havens (Point Pleasant, N.J./Point Pleasant Borough) made six saves as she earned her second win of the season.
 
Maritime controlled much of the early play as junior Jessica Yee (Freehold, N.J./Freehold) collected a shot at the 2:07 mark of the first half. Woods took back-to-back shots for the Privateers, followed by a shot from freshman Esmeralda Hernandez (Huntington, N.Y./Huntington). Through the first 45 minutes of play, the Privateers outshot their hosts by a 7-5 advantage.
 
Kelly opened up the action in the second half with a shot that sailed over the crossbar, followed by shots by Yee and Woods.
 
As play crossed into the 71st minute, the Privateers were awarded a free kick taken by Kelly. Off the free kick, the ball came to Evans, who drove the ball home to put the Privateers ahead by a 1-0 score.
 
York possessed the ball well over the next 10 minutes of action as the Cardinals took four shots in a three-minute span. On the fifth shot, York scored on a crossing pass into the box to even the game at one apiece.
 
The Cardinals continued to maintain possession of the ball and took three more shots and were awarded four corner kicks through the waning minutes of the period.
 
Maritime got the ball back and came streaking down the field with less than a minute to go. Woods snapped a shot off and scored off the left inner post to put the Privateers back ahead by one at 2-1 with 21 seconds left in regulation.
 
York outshot Maritime 10-6 in the second half for a match total of 15-13 in favor of the Cardinals. Saves were even at six apiece, while the Cardinals took eight corner kicks and were called offsides on three occasions.
 
Maritime (2-2) will return home on Saturday morning at 11 a.m., when the Privateers host the Mass. Maritime Buccaneers from Reinhart Field.
 
York (0-2) will travel to Yeshiva on Sunday afternoon, for a 4 p.m. start against the Maccabees on Randall's Island.