SALEM, Ore. – A physical, foul-plagued afternoon at Sparks Field finished scoreless as Whitman College and host Willamette University played to a 0-0 double-overtime tie in Northwest Conference women's soccer action.

The Missionaries (8-7-4, 6-5-4 NWC) and Bearcats (2-14-2, 1-11-2) certainly accumulated enough shots, a combined 23, to produce a few threatening moments but the scoreboard remained silent through 110 minutes of action -- unlike the whistles that filled the air all game long.

Willamette 'won' the tally for fouls with 18 compared to 13 by Whitman. The Bearcats were also served four yellow cards with the Missionaries picking up two themselves.

Whitman controlled much of the early action in the first half getting shots from Brianna Brown and Lena de Guzman in the opening four minutes. The next shot of the game was also off a Whitman foot, Naomi Lee's, but came in the 20th minute as action slowed its pace.

The Bearcats rattled off their first shot of the game in the 25th then waited until the 44th to serve up another, this one making it on frame but goalkeeper Haley Case had a good look all the way from the strike by Sarah Desautels and easily picked up the save.

The afternoon's halting play continued to slow with the beginning of the second half. Not until the 55th minute was another shot registered as a Desautels poke was cleared away from the goal mouth by a Whitman defender, ending one of the strongest threats to that point in the contest.

Desautels continued to be Willamette's most threatening player with another chance three minutes later. A thru ball split a pair of Whitman defenders with Desautels giving chase. She finally caught up with the pass but Case had raced off her line and smothered the shot just as Desautels was able to make contact for another save.

The only other second-half shot to present a scoring opportunity was Clara Merlino's late in the 74th but Bearcats goalie Emily Sewall came up with the save.

The first 10-minute overtime period was a busy one in the Whitman defensive end. Willamette's Megan Lacy registered a shot on goal at 91:51 but Case was there with the save, and then the Bearcats' Jill Phillips snapped off a shot that was blocked at 97:55, gathered in by Desautels and put on goal where Case again was in position to keep the game scoreless with another save.

Only one shot came out of the second overtime but it nearly ended the contest. A free kick chance midway through the period allowed Whitman to loft the ball deep into the box where Merlino was able to get off a threatening header but Sewall made an athletic stop on the game's final threat.

Case finished with four saves while her counterpart at the other end of the pitch, Sewall, came up with three.

The regular season for Whitman concludes Friday, Nov. 7 when it hosts George Fox University for a 1 p.m. league game at the Sherwood Athletic Fields.