EDINBURG – Sophomore Diandra Aliaga scored the first two goals of her career, but the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley women's soccer team fell to the two-time defending Northeast Conference Champion Fairleigh Dickinson Knights 3-2 in overtime to close the UTRGV Invitational on Sunday at the UTRGV Soccer and Track & Field Complex.
 
Both of Aliaga's goals gave UTRGV (1-1-0) the lead.
 
The first strike came at 36:06 when Aliaga took a pass from senior Elisa Espino and launched an arcing shot from the upper right corner of the box and through the hands of Knights (1-1-0) goalkeeper Amanda Fitzgerald (1-1-0) to make it 1-0.
 
Then, with the score tied at 1 and less than 10 minutes remaining, Aliaga scored on a free kick to make it 2-1.
 
UTRGV held its 1-0 lead for nearly 40 minutes before Jackson Bennett buried a rebound off an initial shot by Giselles Perez.
 
Then, three minutes after UTRGV took the lead, Elma Kolenovic scored off a pass from Jessi Reinhardt to tie the match.
 
The match went into overtime, and at 91:37, Dara Battistoni fed Kolenovic on the breakaway. She shot a bouncer from point blank range over junior Harlingen South alum Erica Gonzalez (1-1-0) to end the match.
 
Gonzalez and Fitzgerald each finished with five saves.
 
The Knights outshot UTRGV 12-to-10, including 8-to-7 on goal.
 
UTRGV is back in action on Friday at 7 p.m. when they visit Lamar.

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