LA JOLLA, Calif. - The last time the UC San Diego women’s soccer team played host to Cal State L.A., the visiting Golden Eagles got a goal at the death with just 42 ticks left in double overtime to post a 1-0 victory and end the Tritons’ 2013 season.

Meeting again at Triton Soccer Stadium in a non-conference tilt Monday night, CSULA scored just 40 seconds in from the penalty spot. After Michelle Yasutake’s 13th-minute equalizer, another goal was not to be had despite what amounted to 46 total shots in a 1-1 draw between the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) rivals.

Playing their second overtime contest of the early season, the Tritons concluded their non-conference slate at 3-2-1 overall. The Golden Eagles are now 5-1-1.

Junior Triton goalkeeper Kelcie Brodsky completed the night with a career-high 13 saves. It marked a single-game program record for the NCAA Division II era (since 2000), and fell just one shy of matching Jennelle Welling’s school mark of 14 from a 1991 date with Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Yasutake had an eventful first 45 minutes for the home side. Following a turnover by a teammate in UCSD’s defensive third, the redshirt junior was whistled for the foul that led to Amalia Arvidsson’s penalty-kick opener, the senior native of Sweden shooting high for her team-leading fourth on the year.

In the 13th minute, the Tritons earned a free kick from just outside the penalty area toward the right side. Yasutake stepped up and drilled her left-footed effort into the bottom left corner for her first of 2014 and second career goal.

Later with under three minutes left in the first half, a long-range Shea Richards attempt, one of a game-high seven shots by the Golden Eagle senior deflected off of Yasutake before skipping off the top of the crossbar and over for a corner kick.

Cal State L.A. would find the crossbar above Brodsky four times in all, with three in the first half and one final denial following the interval.

Senior Yi Du had five stops in goal for CSULA. Five of Richards’ seven shots were on target over 54 minutes of action off the bench. Heather Williams had six attempts.

UCSD as a team allowed 31 shots on the night, almost assuredly, it appears, a record total for an opponent. The Tritons were credited with 15 shots.

Arvidsson was the first Golden Eagle to find the crossbar in the 11th minute, hitting the top of the bar after a left-sided corner kick by fellow Swede Veronika Steen.

The 32nd minute saw Richards shoot from long range, Brodsky make the save, and Williams bang the rebound off the bar. Finally in the 58th, senior midfielder Pablo Norie took a nice pass from Joanna Espinoza up the middle of the field and smacked her right-footed shot attempt off the crossbar as the score remained level at 1-1.

Richards also had another hard right-footed effort in the 34th minute from way out there on the right side that looked headed toward the upper left corner, only for Brodsky to go full extension and save with difficulty.

These two teams turn right around and face off again this Friday night, Sept. 26, as both sides begin their 11-game CCAA schedules. Kickoff at Jesse Owens Track on the Cal State L.A. campus is set for 7 p.m., after the men’s game beginning at 4:30 p.m.

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