TURNER — The ball hadn’t yet rolled to the back of the goal cage off Adrianna Newton’s stick when the equipment started flying.

A stick here, a glove there, and a goalie mask from who knows where flung into the air as Newton’s Leavitt High School field hockey teammates swarmed the front of the net. The hot pink ball also came flying out of the crowd, landing about halfway to the center line.

In the Hornets’ final home game of the 2010 regular season, they went a long way toward securing at least one more during the playoffs. Newton scored twice, including the winner with 2:19 to play in the second overtime, and senior MyKayla McCann netted a late equalizer in regulation to lead Leavitt to a 3-2 upset victory over previously unbeaten Mt. View on Thursday.

“I was trying may hardest to just sprint and keep up with the play,” Newton said as she started diagramming the winning play. “I turned toward the net, the ball was there, Amanda (Jordan) was there, and the ball came to me. It felt so slow, I was just watching it roll in.”

The victory for Leavitt is its ninth of the season against two losses and a tie, and the Heal Points the Hornets gained in the win were enough, at least temporarily, to lift the squad into third place in Western Class B.

“Overtime is great when you win, and terrible when you lose, and we’ve been on both sides of it this year,” Leavitt coach Wanda Ward-McLean said. “This was a big win for us, hopefully to get us a home playoff game.”

The Mustangs (11-1) had scored 32 goals this season and had allowed just two goals against until Thursday.

“When they came onto attack, and our 25 kind of fell apart,” Mt. View coach Gloria Hewett said. “We started playing like we were desperate instead of just playing the ball. Maybe it’s because honestly, it doesn’t happen very often.”

Leavitt didn’t muster much pressure for long Thursday, either. The Mustangs kept the ball in the Hornets’ end for most of the first half, but managed just one goal, a laser off the stick of Hayleigh Kein on a penalty corner.

With 3:13 to play in the half, Newton finished on a scramble at the right post and slapped the ball past Mt. View keeper Abbie Charrier to even the score.

“When we scored, the girls, you could tell, they started to believe,” Ward-McLean said.

More of the same pressure greeted Leavitt and keeper Taylor Eells in the second half. The shifty backstop stuffed several Mt. View opportunities, diving across the goalmouth several times to keep up with the play, and twice turning aside a high shot while reaching from the ground.

“She’s just so consistent back there,” Ward-McLean said. “She’s all over the place, full of energy, and she knows how to stop the ball.”

Mercedes Reynolds appeared to sink Leavitt with 9:51 to play in regulation when she tipped a long feed over a diving Eells to put her team on top by a goal.

But after a timeout, McCann found the ball in the middle of the circle, slid to her left and fired it by Charrier to send the game into the extra session.