Box Score

BALTIMORE, Md. – Mike Sarbaugh (Elizabethtown, PA/Elizabethtown) scored in the 73rd minute to break a 1-all tie and lift Gettysburg over 13th-ranked Johns Hopkins in the semifinals of the Centennial Conference (CC) men’s soccer playoffs on Friday.

 Sarbaugh, whose apparent game-tying goal was disallowed on a disputed offsides call in the Bullets’ 2-0 loss to JHU on Oct. 24, popped the ball into an open net off a failed clear to push Gettysburg into the CC championship game, one win from a berth in the NCAA tournament.

 The Bullets (15-4) will face Western Maryland for the conference title on Saturday at 6 p.m. The Green Terror edged Muhlenberg 1-0 in double overtime of the night's second semifinal.

 Mike McLaughlin (Swampscott, MA/Northfield-Mt. Hermon) also scored an unassisted goal to help Gettysburg snap a four-game winless streak in Baltimore.  Steve Kopp (Upper Montclair, NJ/Montclair) made four saves in the Bullet net.

 Chad Tarabolous netted the Blue Jays’ lone goal of the night, while CC leading scorer Matthew Doran, who entered the postseason with 17 goals and 47 points in 17 games, was held scoreless on only two shots.  The senior scored both goals in the win over Gettysburg on Oct. 24.

 Gettysburg, which needed a 3-2 Hopkins victory over F&M on the last night of the season just to make the playoffs, showed little appreciation while avenging one of its four regular-season losses.

 With the game less than six minutes old, James Miller’s (Redlands, CA/Redlands) throw-in was knocked out by the Blue Jay defense, but McLaughlin headed the attempted clear past goalie Gary Kane, Jr. for a 1-0 lead.  The goal, McLaughlin’s fourth of the season, was the Bullets’ first in their last three trips to Homewood Field.

 Adam Hack’s apparent game-tying goal was disallowed on an obstruction call in the 30th minute, but Tarabolous squared the game at 1 before halftime by one-timing a header from Ryan Hanley past Kopp in the 42nd minute.

 The game remained tied until another failed clearing attempt found the foot of Sarbaugh, who drove it home for his fifth goal of the season and a 2-1 lead with 27:44 left in regulation.

 Johns Hopkins’ best chance to pull even came in the 78th minute, when a shot from Hanley glanced off the crossbar.

 Five different players recorded two shots in the game to help the Blue Jays outshoot Gettysburg 11-7.  Mike Bevilacqua (Marshfield, MA/Thayer Acad.) led the Bullets with two shots.

 Gettysburg won its fifth straight road game following a 1-0 overtime conference loss at Western Maryland on Sept. 26.  The Bullets are 9-1 on the road this season.

 Gettysburg is seeking its third CC championship and seventh berth in the NCAA tournament.  The last time the team accomplished each feat was in 1999.
 

Score by Half	1	2	-	F
Gettysburg (15-4)	1	1	-	2
#13 Johns Hopkins (15-3)	1	0	-	1

Scoring
G – Mike McLaughlin 4 (unassisted), 5:36
J – Chad Tarabolous 9 (Ryan Hanley [3]), 41:07
G – Mike Sarbaugh 5 (unassisted), 72:16

Shots: G 7, J 11. Corner Kicks: G 2, J 3. Fouls: G 20, J 7. Goalie Saves: G 4 (Steve Kopp), J 2 (Gary Kane, Jr.).

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