WALLA WALLA, Wash.  A tale of two halves turned on a late penalty kick goal allowing visiting Linfield College to steal a 1-0 game from host Whitman College in Northwest Conference women's soccer action Saturday at the Whitman Athletic Fields.

Whitman (0-10-1, 0-6-1 NWC) ruled possession so definitively in the opening half that Linfield (3-6-2, 3-2-2) wasn't able to own possession in its attacking third until the game's 17th minute.

Shot totals in the half had Whitman creating an 8-2 advantage, with four of those eight shots making it on frame. Linfield goalkeeper Sarah Bailey came up with a save each time to keep the Wildcats and Whitman all square heading into the intermission after 45 scoreless minutes.

The same patch of turf saw most of the action in the second half, unfortunately for Whitman.

Linfield took its turn controlling play in the second 45 minutes, piling up a 10-2 edge in shots.

Whitman goalie Haley Case, who may have touched the ball in the opening half only when a teammate chose a back pass to the netminder, saw a lot of action in the second 45 as she accumulate seven saves that kept the game scoreless.

A foul in the box of the home team in the 79th minute turned into the deciding moment of the contest.

The play set up Linfield with a penalty kick, one of the most challenging situations facing a goalie.

Case was up to the task as she read the shooter, Annie Ferguson, and dove to her right to stop Ferguson's low liner toward the corner. The rebound came loose, however, and Ferguson followed her PK attempt with a quick lift up and over Case for what would become the game-winning goal.

Whitman generated one more shot, blocked by a defender in the 87th, before the final horn.

The home weekend continues on Sunday for Whitman with Pacific (Ore.) University visiting the Athletic Fields for a noontime conference contest.