Friday night wasn’t about trailing its opponent — every team is going to be behind at some point.

It wasn’t about its performance in the first half, or even about the way it had matched up with No. 23 University of Tennessee.

Friday night was about how the ASU women’s soccer team responded to each of the challenges it was given.

In a come-from-behind, double-overtime 3-2 victory against the Lady Vols, the Sun Devils put an end to a seven-game overtime winless streak and improved their record to 2-0.

“I liked the way we responded,” head coach Kevin Boyd said. “Ultimately, we responded to being down 2-0, got a goal, and kept fighting until we got another goal to tie it up. We stepped our game up in overtime and ended up winning.”

The Sun Devils’ first goal of the night came on a shot by junior midfielder Lindsey Johns to start the Sun Devil comeback, but it was junior forward Karin Volpe’s pair of goals that put the Sun Devils on top.

“I have definitely been having trouble, so these goals helped me to get my confidence back from not playing well,” Volpe said. “I’m very excited, and I’m glad I could help my team.”

Her first goal came with just 13 seconds left in regulation, which tied the score at two. The second shot she put away won the game and tied her single-game career high.

Volpe is now tied with seven others for fourth place on ASU’s career list for game-winning goals.

But the success of Friday night did not carry over into Sunday’s game against the University of Kansas Jayhawks, a 1-0 loss for the Sun Devils.

“We were a different team [Sunday],” Boyd said. “We did not have the same passion and intensity in our efforts as we did on Friday. We started slow again and just never got it going. That’s somewhat a symptom of being young and of playing an emotional, exhausting overtime Friday night, but none of those are actually legitimate excuses.”

Though the Sun Devils outshot the Jayhawks 9-5 in the second half, Kansas got on the board in the 56th minute because of an “own goal” by ASU when the ball went off of sophomore defender Katie Shepard and into the Sun Devil net.

The split weekend dropped the Sun Devils to 2-1, but allowed them to gain insight on teams across the country. That shed light on areas they still need to improve upon.

“It’s nice to play these teams,” Volpe said. “They’re good and they are from a conference that we’ve never really played — especially a top-25 team. It helped us to see what we need to work on to get better for the rest of the season.”

Still, the team said it will work to change the elements that held it back and enhance the abilities that pushed it over the top in its win against UT.

“Hearing it and responding to it and putting it into play are different things,” Boyd said. “If you learn something, that means you respond and you don’t do it that way the next time — you get something out of it.

I’m going to have to wait to find out if we got something out of this.

They definitely heard what we didn’t do, but they now have to change some of those pieces.”

Volpe, senior defender Liz Harkin and redshirt freshman forward Courtney Tinnin were each named to the Lady Vol Classic All-Tournament Team.

Next weekend, ASU will face off against Old Dominion University and University of Virginia in the Sun Devil Desert Classic.

Reach the reporter at emiley.darling@asu.edu.