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EAST STROUDSBURG – Junior midfielder Cree Julian scored in the first half, sophomore forward Kerri McClay scored in the second half and East Stroudsburg University earned a point against defending PSAC and NCAA Atlantic Region champion West Chester with a 2-2 tie on Wednesday night at Eiler-Martin Stadium.

Julian and McClay gave the Warriors a 2-0 lead and they held on against a West Chester team that is ranked No. 10 in Division II and avoided what would have been just its fourth loss in a conference game in the last seven seasons.

ESU (3-1-1, 1-1-1) picked up just its second point in the last 17 games against West Chester (3-0-2, 1-0-2) going back to 2002 thanks in part to 11 saves by sophomore Brittain Wagner, who made her third career start in goal.

West Chester outshot the Warriors 11-5 in the first half, but ESU held a 1-0 lead on Julian's left-footed blast for her second goal of the season in the 34th minute.

McClay put the Warriors ahead 2-0 with her third goal of the year just over six minutes into the second half. Junior forward Bridget Connell drove a ball into the box that McClay deflected past West Chester goalkeeper Shannon Fedyk.

Melissa McKeary scored both goals for West Chester, giving her four on the season, in the 57th and 72nd minutes. The first goal was a cross from an extreme angle on the end line that got over Wagner and found the corner of the goal, and the second was a rebound on a hard shot by Maddie Mitchell that hit the crossbar.

ESU had a scoring chance on a corner kick just two minutes later, but a header by redshirt sophomore back Carly Collins was cleared off the goal line by reserve defender Sam Eddinger.

The visitors held a 19-12 advantage in shots in regulation and a 25-14 margin in the game. Wagner was called on to make saves on three of the Golden Rams' five shots in the second overtime.

ESU heads to Millersville on Saturday for the fourth of its 14 PSAC games and is back at Eiler-Martin Stadium next Tuesday for a 4 p.m. match-up against IUP.

Notes: West Chester is 65-3-9 in PSAC games since the start of the 2005 season and has won four of the last five PSAC championships . . WCU is 15-0-2 vs. ESU since the Warriors' 2-0 win in 2002 . . ESU's other tie was 1-1 in the regular season at West Chester in 2008 . . WCU edged the Warriors, 3-2, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament that season.