EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – The Jacksonville State soccer team put together a phenomenal effort against defending Ohio Valley Conference champion SIU Edwardsville on Friday evening and it paid off in double overtime as senior Courtney Hurt scored the golden goal to preserve the 1-0 road win.

The Gamecocks improved to 5-6 overall and notched their second league win of the season.  Jax State will look for a weekend sweep while in the state of Illinois as it will continue on to Charleston, Illinois for a Sunday afternoon contest against Eastern Illinois.  The Cougars, the preseason favorite to re-peat as conference champions, dropped to 3-5-4 overall and remained winless in OVC play at 0-2-1.

JSU fought off many threats by the Cougars throughout the 107 minutes as the home side finished with 14 total shots.  The Cougars also had 10 corner kick chances.  SIUE had seven of the final tally in the second half and three in the first overtime period.  SIUE did not get a shot attempt in the final 10-minute period. The Gamecocks were credited with seven in the contest and made the final one count off the foot of Hurt.  With just three minutes left in the match, the Gamecocks sent the ball down in the final third of SIUE's side and served the ball in to the box that ricocheted off the cross bar and in dropped in front of the open net as Hurt knocked the ball in to the right side for the golden goal.

The win avenged last season's pair of losses to SIUE, one of which was an overtime setback to the Cougars in the 2014 OVC Soccer Championship match.  JSU snapped a three-game losing skid to SIUE and evened the overall series at three apiece.

Hurt turned in a match-high three shots, including two on-goal opportunities.  Senior Kelsey Bright added a pair of shots in the contest.  Hurt's goal was her third game-winning goal of the season and the seventh of her career.  The goal moved her in to fifth place on the program's career goals list with 21 career goals.
Sophomore goalkeeper Caroline Robinson registered her second shutout of the season and finished with six saves.

Sunday's EIU match will get started at 1 p.m. at Lakeside Field on the EIU campus.  The match will be streamed on the OVC Digital Network.