When play wrapped up at the NIU Soccer Complex this weekend, the NIU women’s soccer team had added another win and its first draw to its already impressive home record.

NIU opened up the weekend’s action Friday with a late afternoon contest against Buffalo (1-10-1, 0-3-1 MAC). The Huskies dominated the contest throughout, firing 12 shots on the Buffalo goal while not allowing a single shot on their net.

NIU head coach Carrie Barker thought the team played well, but believed that considering the extra pressure, the game should have been put away long before the clock hit :00.

“Even though we won it was 1-0, we had several opportunities that I thought we could have used to seal the game a lot earlier,” Barker said.

Sunday’s action featured the Huskies tying 1-1 with the Golden Flashes of Kent State. A tentative first half by both teams gave way to an offensive explosion in the first ten minutes of the second half. Kent State’s Annie Messer opened up the scoring in the 48th minute when she converted a penalty kick. Four minutes later, the Huskies answered with a Shelbi Johnson tally.

Johnson admired the way the team kept working after the Kent State (1-6-4, 0-3-1) goal.

“That was just pure hard work,” Johnson said. “I got a sick cross from Mo [Smunt], and I was able to get a tip on it to put it in.”

After the Johnson goal, the game remained scoreless through the second half. The teams would then engage in two ten-minute overtime periods, neither of which netting the winning marker.

Kent State head coach Rob Marinaro knew allowing the NIU (6-4-1, 2-1-1) goal just a few minutes after their initial score would loom large.

“We gave up that goal,” Marinaro said. “And we knew it would be big, but I still don’t think it was because of a change of mindset by our girls. It was just a mistake that happens in the flow of the game.”