Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – James Bealer (Darien,
CT/Darien) scored in the 10th minute and sixth-ranked
Gettysburg made it stand up despite playing one man down for
most of the second half, defeating McDaniel 1-0 in Centennial
Conference (CC) men’s soccer action on Wednesday.
Playing with their highest national ranking
in nine years, the Bullets (10-0-2, 4-0 CC) used five saves
from Steve Kopp (Upper Montclair, NJ/Montclair)
and a defense that has allowed only four goals all season
to extend their program-record season-opening unbeaten streak
to 12 games.
Malcolm Thomas (Albany, NH/North
Yarmouth Acad.) assisted on the goal, giving him four
points in the past two games. The senior midfielder scored
the game-winner and added an assist in Gettysburg’s 2-0 win
over Haverford on Saturday.
Ryan Tetteris put two of
his team-high three shots on goal for McDaniel, but leading
scorer Thomas Kane was held without a shot on
the afternoon. Brent Kahuda made five saves
in the Green Terror net.
In contrast to Saturday’s win against
the Fords, the Bullets didn’t wait until the final minutes
to get on the board.
Gettysburg carried the play in the opening
minutes, nearly scoring in the first 90 seconds when Mike
Bevilacqua’s (Marshfield, MA/Thayer Acad.) shot was
knocked out of the goal mouth by a McDaniel defender.
Moments later, the Bullets broke through when
Thomas gathered the ball in the midfield and found Bealer
making a run down the center of the offensive zone. Bealer,
starting in the midfield instead of at his usual role as a
defender, finished low and to the right of a diving Kahuda
to make it 1-0 with only 9:03 gone in the game.
From there, scoring opportunities were scarce
on both sides.
Kahuda stopped Michael Sarbaugh (Elizabethtown,
PA/Elizabethtown) in the 27th minute and recorded
his other save of the half on Dave Monsour (Gettysburg,
PA/Gettysburg) with just under 10 minutes left before
the break.
McDaniel (5-4-2, 1-3-1 CC) didn’t manage a
shot through the first 33 minutes, but its first two attempts
forced Kopp to step up.
Jason Kuhns was stopped in the
34th minute before Timothy McCallum unloaded
a point-blank blast from the right side of the 18 that Kopp
knocked down just seconds later.
Kahuda halted an Andrew Maynard (Reading,
PA/Exeter) shot in the opening moments of the second
half, but Kopp answered with saves on Todd Knepper and Tetteris.
Minutes after Michael Bruno (Harrisburg,
PA/Susquehanna Twp.) left the game with his second
yellow card, Kopp got a little help from his defense to maintain
the shutout.
Matt Wolfe broke in on the right
side and pushed an attempt past the sliding keeper, but defender
Frank Ianni (Westfield, NJ/Westfield) cleared
the ball out of harm’s way.
With the shutout, Kopp eclipsed a career high
by extending his scoreless streak to 649 minutes without allowing
a goal. Bealer’s goal was his second of the season and the
fourth of his collegiate career.
With the win, Gettysburg set a program record
for longest unbeaten streak to open a season (12), surpassing
a 10-0-1 start in 1993.
The Bullets return to action on Saturday at
Swarthmore. Game time is 12 p.m.
| Score by Half |
1 |
2 |
- |
F |
| McDaniel (5-4-2, 1-3-1 CC) |
0 |
0 |
- |
0 |
| #6 Gettysburg (10-0-2, 4-0 CC) |
1 |
0 |
- |
1 |
Scoring
G – James Bealer (Malcolm Thomas), 9:03
Shots: M 8, G 11. Corner Kicks:
M 3, G 5. Fouls: M 17, G 21. Goalie Saves: M
5 (Brent Kahuda), G 5 (Steve Kopp).
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