PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Hartford (3-2-3 overall) women's soccer team played to a 0-0 stalemate with the Temple Owls in its final road contest before opening league play. The Hawks finished the game with a 25-21 advantage in shots and keeper Erin Quinlan recorded her third shutout of the season with six saves.

The Hawks forced Temple keeper Shauni Kerkhoff into action on eight occasions with Caroline Dixon leading the way with three of her five shots marked on goal. Amélia Pereira and Elise Galipo each finished with two shots on goal. Dixon's five shots tied rookie Sidney Spremullo in leading the team for total individual shots, while Pereira recorded four total shots.

Temple opened the match in a fury, forcing its first of four total corner kicks just 90 seconds in and recording the first shot of the contest six seconds later on a head from Kate Yurkovic that sailed wide of the goal. In total, both teams combined for six shots in the first seven minutes of the contest, with Hartford marking two of those shots on goal. The first that forced Kerkhoff into action came 4:39 in from Dixon, the second 7:02 in from Pereira.

Quinlan's first save also came in that early stretch of shots when Yurkovic sent her second shot of the competition in just before the six minute mark. Kerkhoff would be forced to make three more saves before closing out the first 45 minutes. A shot from Spremullo forced a save in the 32nd minute while Dixon put two more on goal in the 34th and 39th minutes.

Coming out of the halftime break, Hartford forced Kerkhoff to test her skills early with shots from Pereira and Galipo less than two minutes apart in the 49th and 50th minutes. Quinlan was tested four times in the second half, the first of which came in the 58th minute off a shot from Morgyn Siegfried.

A total of four shots came in the final 10 minutes of regulation, one of which forced Quinlan to make her final save of the second half. Hartford would provide the final two shots before overtime, both coming 29 seconds apart from Caitlin Alves and Dixon.

The two overtime periods saw a total of 11 shots. Hartford provided the only shots in the first 10 minute extra period, with neither keeper called into action in that stretch. Quinlan provided the only save in the two extra stanza's, that coming in one of the six shots from Temple in the final 10 minutes of action. Yorkovic, who opened the game with the first shot, provided the last that required a keeper to interact in the 108th minute as Quinlan collected her header attempt for the final save of the contest.

The Hawks return to West Hartford and begin a three-game home stand with a Thursday night tilt against the Iona Gaels on September 20. That game against Iona is the Hawks final tune-up before opening conference play three days later against Binghamton. The Hawks and Gaels are scheduled for a 7:00 p.m. start at Al-Marzook Field at Alumni Stadium.