Erie, Pa. - The No. 1-ranked Millersville field hockey team preserved its unblemished record with a come-from-behind, 2-1, double-overtime win at Mercyhurst Saturday afternoon.

Mercyhurst's (4-6, 2-4 PSAC) Blair Pembleton scored 10:43 into the contest, giving Millersville (9-0, 7-0 PSAC) a halftime deficit for just the second time this season. Marauder sophomore Olivia Hershey provided the game-tying goal at the 50:43 mark, and after two nail-biting overtime sessions, Rachel Dickinson scored the game-winning goal off of a corner entry from Lauren Gerhart.

Millersville's ninth win matches the best start in school history set previously by the 2013 and 1973 clubs. The win hardly came easy as Mercyhurst held a 15-14 advantage in shots, becoming just the second team to out-shoot the Marauders this season. Goalkeeper Lauren Sotzin was peppered with nine shots, and she turned away eight of them. All eight saves came in the overtime periods.

Millersville managed just one shot off of its seven second-half penalty corners. That one shot resulted in Hershey's second goal of the season. With the scored tied at 1-1, Millersville forced three penalty corners in the final eight minutes but failed to score. Mercyhurst took control of possession early in the first overtime, and fired eight shots off of three penalty corners in the first 10 minutes of action. Sotzin denied six and two others were blocked in front of the cage. The Marauders flipped the field in the final five minutes of the first OT, putting three shots on Laker keeper Jess Wess.

The start of the second overtime mirrored the first with Laker Marissa Faso firing two shots at Sotzin in the first 2:29. After a Millersville timeout in the 89th minute, Gerhart took a penalty corner and found Dickinson who rifled a shot from the top of the circle past Wess for her fourth goal of the season.

The overtime win was Millersville's third of the season. Millersville can set a school record with 10 consecutive victories on Tuesday, but it will have to come against rival Shippensburg. The Raiders entered the weekend ranked No. 2 in Division II but suffered a 2-1 loss at West Chester. Game time for Tuesday's match-up is 4 p.m.