PEMBROKE – Lovisa Gustafsson punched in a goal right before the halftime break and the UNC Pembroke women's soccer team rallied behind another notable defensive performance as the Braves earned a 1-1 draw with 10th-ranked North Georgia on Saturday evening at Varsity Grounds.

The result helped the Braves (9-3-2, 5-2-1 PBC) extend their unbeaten streak out to five games and capture their second tie against a top 10 team this season (Wingate, Sept. 9). The setback snapped an 8-game winning streak for North Georgia (12-1-1, 6-0-1) who had outscored its last three opponents by a 24-3 margin coming into the weekend.

Gustaffson scored for the fourth time this season, while Rae-Shawna Campbell matched the team lead with her seventh assist of the campaign. Cicely Taliaferro scored the lone goal for the Nighthawks.

Junior Janae Aiken stopped eight shots between the pipes for the Braves in the draw, while her North Georgia counterpart, Mallory Sayre, grabbed three saves for the visitors.

North Georgia put up eight of the game's first 10 shots, but the Braves drew first blood in the final minute of the opening half (44:20) when Campbell hit a perfectly-placed pass across the goalmouth to the waiting right foot of Gustaffson who tapped the ball past a diving Sayre.

The Nighthawks came away wanting on a header by Jacy Ramey in the 58th minute that Aiken left her feet to corral, but the visitors knotted the game up anyways in the 68th minute (67:11) when Taliaferro cleaned up a rebound off of a Ramey shot that was cleared off the end line by a UNCP defender.

Neither team was able to break the standstill in the overtime period. The best chance for either team came in the 94th minute (93:56) when Rachel VanHorn's laser shot was pushed over the crossbar by a leaping Aiken.

The Braves will close out a short two-game stay at home on October 25 when they lace up to take on PBC rival Young Harris (5-8-0, 2-6-0) in the front half of an 11 a.m. doubleheader at Varsity Grounds.