She'd taken, and made, the shot so many times in practice and pregame warmups, Jenna Hunter could've done it with her eyes closed.
But she kept them open, better to enjoy the view of her one-timer rocketing off the back of the cage.
Her goal, with 14:04 left to play, proved to be the game winner in Donegal's 2-1 victory over Palmyra in the semifinals of the District Three Class AA field hockey tournament, Tuesday evening at Hershey High School.
The Indians (20-4), the No. 7 seed in the draw, advance to Saturday's championship game where they will meet top-seeded Oley Valley.
Game time at Milton Hershey Stadium is 12:30 p.m.
Oley Valley advance to the title game with a 3-0 win over Lancaster Mennonite in Tuesday's other semifinal.
No stranger to big games, Hunter, a key member of Donegal's State Spring Soccer Champions, teamed with Laura Gebhart, a member of the U.S. Under-21 Women's Junior World Cup and no stranger to prime time herself, for the game-winner.
Palmyra (19-3-1), a 2-1 victor over Donegal in the Cougar Classic back in September, dominated the second half and knotted the game at 1-1 on Nikki Barry's goal in the 42nd minute.
The enjoyment of the moment was brief for the No. 3 seeded Cougars.
Senior defender Katie Robinson, who went off with an injury two minutes before the Cougars' goal, returned just after Hunter was stopped on a long run down the left side.
Robinson denied the clearing attempt by the Cougar defense, sending the ball over to Gebhart on the right side.
Dodging through the defense and deep into the offensive zone, Gebhart unloaded a cross into the box, right to Hunter's stick.
"I was standing there calling for it," Hunter said. "She played it, I saw it and just stepped in. I timed it perfect."
One-timed it, for a perfect goal.
It came on just the Indians' second shot of the night. The Tribe would finish with three shots and no penalty corners, to four shots and eight corners for the Cougars.
"They were so tough in their (defensive) circle," observed Indians' coach Jessica Shellenberger. "The individual battles, we really didn't win.
"They outplayed us, but that's how it goes sometimes. When I won a national championship in college (at Michigan) we had two shots on goal and we beat Maryland 2-0."
The Tribe broke on top on Karlee Farr's sweet finish on a restart set piece in the 20th minute.
Robinson's service from outside the top of the circle came to Farr camped in front of the goal.
"I set up where I thought I should be," said Farr, one of three freshmen starting for the Indians. "She hit me a great ball, it hit my stick in the right spot and it went in."
She makes it sound so simple.
It was not for the Cougars, who saw Robinson sweep the ball out of the goal mouth with 6:15 to play in the first half.
They also had a goal waved off with 5:38 to go when it was ruled Lindsay Bowman's pass hit Alex Newhard in the foot before Newhard knocked the ball into the cage.
"Our problem is we have a hard time finishing," said Cougars coach Kristi Harshman. "The whole no goal thing messed (us) up, but you've got to keep attacking."
"They just poured it on," said Shellenberger. "For us to only give them one goal today, you've got to be proud."