Maybe about 8 yards away, Riley Schmidt had a wide-open look at the goal with seven seconds left in overtime on Oct. 4. She slung a shot toward the far post, but Rebecca Griffiths popped her right foot out and kicked it away as the clock ticked down to zero.
“I’m really glad I have that big right foot,” the Pinelands Regional goaltender joked after she and her field hockey squad tied Barnegat, 1-1. “The overtime was scary. It was an adrenaline rush, for sure.
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