SOUTH PARIS – There aren’t usually enough shots on goal in field hockey to legitimately call any game a true goaltenders’ duel.

Thursday night’s tilt between Mt. Blue and Oxford Hills was an exception.

Aleksys Pike made 13 saves for the Vikings and Ashley Lewia turned back 10 shots for the Cougars, including one big one in the second overtime, as the two teams battled to a 1-1 tie in a key KVAC matchup at the Gouin Athletic Complex.

“(Lewia) is very aggressive, and she does a great job for us in most games,” said Mt. Blue coach Jeannine Paradis.

“She’s very quick,” Oxford Hills coach Cindy Goddard said of Pike. “She keeps us in a lot of games. I think she’s even better when she’s alone with no defense around her at all.”

For Mt. Blue, going into a second extra session was “been there, done that” territory. The Cougars (5-2-1) eked out a 3-2 victory over Messalonskee in double overtime Tuesday.

“After our last game, with the double-overtime, I was much more confident,” said Lewia. “We play really well in overtime.”

Both of the teams’ goals came in the latter stages of an up-and-down first half. The homestanding Vikings (5-2-1) struck first on a goal that would have made Wayne Gretzky proud. Kaitlin Crockett slid the ball across the top of the circle to Alyssa Snow. Snow one-timed the ball, got under it a bit, and watched it sail into the top corner of the net.

“I swung and it went too high,” said Snow, whose goal was her first of the season. “I got under it a little bit, but they counted it. I always just wait for it. That’s my position, and it came right to me this time.”

Mt. Blue’s responded quickly, though, something Paradis has been preaching to her team all season.

“In the past, people have been used to Mt. Blue not answering goals,” said Paradis. “We’ve had times where we’ve had a strong first half, then a goal goes in, and we can’t answer it. Now, these girls believe that just because one goal goes in, it doesn’t mean that the game’s done.”

On the goal, Webb slapped the ball past Pike from the right corner of the cage just 1:44 after the Viking’s goal.

“The ball just came across the top on the corner,” said Webb. “It was just sitting there, and I hit it in. As a team we usually get down, but after they scored, we fought back this time. That’s big for us.”

No one found the back of the net in the second half as both goaltenders turned aside shot after shot, and neither team managed much offense in the 7-on-7 overtime periods. Each team had one penalty corner in the first extra session, and Mt. Blue managed two to Oxford Hills’ none in the second, but each time, the ball remained out of the cage.