Box Score SAN FRANCISCO — After staging its most incredible comeback of the season on Friday, the Dominican University of California women's soccer team suffered its most crushing defeat, a 4-3 overtime loss to Academy of Art University at Boxer Stadium in Balboa Park.

In the end, it left Shayna Elkins crying in the arms of her coach. The Lady Penguins' senior co-captain incurred her fifth accumulative yellow card during Dominican's rally from a 2-0 first-half deficit and thus will be forced to sit out the team's season-ending Senior Day game on Sunday against Notre Dame de Namur at Forest Meadows Field.

“I feel devastated for Shayna,” said Dominican Director of Soccer Jon Delano. “She's kind of the heart and soul of our team. In my opinion, she's a first-team all-conference player. I don't think there is a midfielder in the league that controls and dominates the space more than she does. I'm very thankful that I have been around her for four years. She's been unbelievable.”

Unbelievable is what describes Dominican's comeback against their Pacific West Conference rival. The Lady Penguins (3-13-1/1-9-1) didn't record a single shot on goal in trailing 2-0 at halftime, but stormed back to tie the score 2-2 on a goals by freshman Sara Pimentel and sophomore Tori Selesia five minutes apart 14 minutes into the second half. The Urban Knights (4-9-2, 2-7-2) regained the lead five minutes later then Dominican had to play the remaining 18 minutes of regulation and overtime a player down after freshman defender Kendra Corsberg received a red hard for dissent and was ejected from the game.

The Lady Penguins, however, continued to press and, with nine minutes left, Katie Brown, Dominican's other senior on the roster, launched a free kick from about 40 yards away into a maze of players in front of the AAU goal. It took one bounce and eluded the grasp of Urban Knight's goalkeeper Jessica Bibby and rolled into the back of the net for a 3-3 tie.

Academy of Art won the game a little more than seven minutes into overtime when Hannah Emmett scored her second consecutive goal, this one with a header off a corner kick by Erica Wheeler-Dubin.

“We gave everything we had,” said Delano. “I couldn't ask for anything more of them.”

Dominican outshot the Urban Knights 10-5 in the second half after Delano made a tactical change at halftime.

“We got sucked into not playing our style in the first half,” said Delano. “I stayed calm with them. It was kind of a truth-be-told type of halftime talk and 'Let's just  find a way to fix things.'”

They fixed them all right. Corsberg assisted on Pimentel's second goal of the season and Julianna Bratsberg set up Selesia's third goal of the year and the Lady Penguins, led by Kaitlynn Baptista, had plenty of other scoring opportunities to win the game.

“This year we talked so much about how bad do you want it. I felt like in the second half we proved it,” said Delano. “That's the good thing I take away from this game.”

The Lady Penguins will host NDNU on Sunday, October 6, the season finale. Kickoff is set for 12:30 p.m. at Forest Meadows Field. A pregame celebration of the team's two seniors, Brown and Elkins, will take place shortly before kickoff.