Late Goal Sends Wingate to SAC Women’s Soccer Championship Title

ROCK HILL, S.C. – SAC Player of the Year Jade Montgomery scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner with under a minute remaining, leading Wingate to a 2-1 victory over Lincoln Memorial in the 2013 Food Lion SAC Soccer Championship women's final.

Wingate – the Championship's No. 2 seed – wins the event for the second time in three years. The victory also earns the Bulldogs an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Championship.

Montgomery scored her first goal with just 23 seconds left in the first half on a header off a free kick, giving WU a 1-0 lead at the break. Both teams then went scoreless until the 86th minute, when LMU's Teresa Doyle blasted a shot past Wingate keeper Ashlyn Hardie from 35 yards out, evening the match.

Montgomery, however, answered in final minute of regulation, outrunning several Railsplitter defenders to find the net for the game winner. The goals on Sunday upped Montgomery's total to 15 on the season. The performance also earned the junior SAC Championship MVP honors.

Hardie made five saves for Wingate, while LMU keeper Kayla Stephens stopped six shots. WU outshot LMU in the match, 15-8.

Joining Montgomery on the All-Tournament Team from Wingate were forward Macy Franklin, forward Brandi Baldwin and midfielder Taryn Grivois. LMU, meanwhile, was represented on the All-Tournament Team by Doyle, midfielder Michelle Allen and defender Sam Adams.

Rounding out the All-Tournament Team were Brianna Belsky and Amber Madriaga from Lenoir-Rhyne and Nikki Arthur and Olivia Kilgore from Tusculum.

Several SAC teams will learn their postseason fates on Monday night when the NCAA Tournament bracket is announced on a live NCAA.com selection show at 7:30 p.m.