Eastern's Hunter Rosenberg scored his second goal of the year, putting Eastern ahead 1-0 with 10 minutes to play.
After out-shooting DeSales 21-5 through the first 79 minutes, the Eagles scored the first goal of the game at the end of the 80th minute. Eastern's Ben Hangey made a pass from midfield that skittered to Hunter Rosenberg outside of the 18. Rosenberg touched the ball to his right, quickly cut back to his left foot and ripped a shot that cut between two DeSales defenders and finished inside the far post for his second goal of the year.
DeSales threatened in the 86th minute and the end of the 89th minute and earned a corner kick in the 90th minute. DeSales' Wes Frebel elected to make the corner kick pass out towards the 18 instead of towards the goalmouth. Bulldog Alex Peek ran to the ball, all alone, and fired a bouncing shot that missed all of the traffic in the box and bounced underneath Eagles' goalkeeper Jamie Stratton. The goal was just the third allowed by Stratton in seven games.
In extra time, the Eagles fired off a shot in the second minute, but Andrew Ferman's header on a long throw went wide. After three minutes of extra time expired DeSales broke down the right wing and crossed a ball down the baseline into the box. Stratton dove for the cross and got a hand on it. DeSales' Malvesuto snuck into the box in between two Eagles' defenders and got a foot on the ball. Stratton initially saved the shot, but Malvesuto ran through the ball, and sunk the game-winner.
Eastern dropped to 5-1 in the Freedom Conference, while DeSales improved to 2-4. The Eagles are back in action with a non-conference game at PSU-Abington on Monday. They'll try to lock up home-field advantage throughout the conference playoffs when they host Wilkes University in the final regular season game on Saturday.
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