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CU's Nikki Marshall, center, battles BYU's Carolyn Swenson, right, in front of BYU keeper Erika Woodbury during Saturday's game.

Sometimes not even experience can make going through a similar situation easier the next time around.

Like when you're a soccer goalie in sudden death overtime.

For the second week in a row, however, Colorado's Kirstin Radlinski proved up to the challenge, stifling a Buffs opponent through two overtimes to preserve a tie.

It was BYU on Saturday that No. 18 CU left the pitch dead-locked with — 0-0 on a perfect late-summer afternoon under the shadow of the Flatirons.

"As a goalie you know you have to come up big," Radlinski said.

The 5-foot-7 junior keeper from Placentia, Calif., made seven saves, including one in the second overtime to keep the Buffs (2-0-2) from suffering their first loss of the season.

Last weekend, Radlinski made a diving save in the first overtime to preserve a 1-1 tie against Fairfield.

"Every overtime, even if you had one (already), every shutout, every PK situation that you get stuck in, it's still just as tough as the first one," Radlinski said. "Going through them doesn't make it any more easy. There's still just that same pressure."

Both teams had their chances to drive home a goal, but neither could convert. BYU goalie Erika Woodbury made five saves and also got help from her defense in the first overtime.

Colorado's only shot on goal of the extra frames came when forward Nikki Marshall fired from point-blank range in the 95th minute past Woodbury toward the left side of the goal. But what looked like a sure score was stuffed at the goal line and cleared by a BYU defender.

The speedy Marshall had three of CU's six shots on goal.

"I feel like that game especially there was so much effort," Marshall said. "We have to be proud of that fact. But I just feel like we haven't quite found that chemistry yet. Once we do, it's going to be glorious, but we just haven't quite found it yet."

With five freshmen or sophomores in the starting lineup and several more seeing significant playing time, CU coach Bill Hempen said getting the youth — especially the freshmen — accustomed to the speed and physical nature of the college game will be key in finding that chemistry.

"(The freshmen) get pushed down, and then they've got to get up and they've got to track," Hempen said. "Then they get pushed down again and they think, 'Oh man, I better push back or it's going to be a long day.' And they did that. Once they did that, we were in the game, because (BYU) had the game early on. But we decided to actually step up and play a little bit. So I was proud of that effort today."

The Cougars, who beat Kansas in overtime on Friday, in fact controlled the early going in both halves.

Katie Fellows and Jessica Aquino-Greenfield both got solid shots on goal in the 57th minute, but Radlinski turned both back, prolonging BYU's scoring woes. Though undefeated at 2-0-1, the Cougars have scored just two goals this season. They've allowed none, however.

"If we had been able to maybe get one, it might have settled things down a little bit," BYU coach Jennifer Rockwood said. "But Colorado continued to fight back and they got some momentum toward the end of the game. The keeper came up big."