Roughly two minutes after Temple took an early one-goal lead in a 3–2 overtime loss to Lehigh University Sunday afternoon, an unexpected visitor approached the Owls’ bench.
Senior goalkeeper Shauni Kerkhoff, who is out for the season with a broken fibula that she suffered Friday against Penn, crutched over towards the sideline behind Temple’s home net, where freshman goalkeeper Jordan Nash was doing her best to fill in for the American Athletic Conference’s Preseason Goalkeeper of The Year.
“She broke herself out of the hospital today,” coach Seamus O’Connor said, jokingly. “She told them they had to release her.