Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – On a blustery fall day at Memorial Field, Gettysburg had its four-game win streak come to a halt when No.
3 Messiah tallied twice in both halves to come away with
a 4-1 victory in non-conference field hockey action on Thursday.
Junior Danae Chambers
netted a goal in each half for the Falcons (7-1) to extend
her team-lead to 13 on the season, while sophomore Aftan Fisher scored off a Chambers assist.
Senior Kate
Hopkins (Oswego, NY/West Chester East [PA])
scored the Bullets’ (5-3) lone goal for her first of
the year.
Gettysburg goalie, junior Quinn Dougherty (Wading River, NY/Shoreham-Wading River), recorded
15 saves, one off her career best, to pick up her third
loss of the year.
Junior Erica Nelson tended the Messiah cage and tallied two saves
to pick up her seventh win of 2003.
The Bullets actually carried play in the opening minutes,
and senior Lisa
Giljam (Downingtown, PA/Villa Maria Academy) recorded the game’s first shot, but Nelson made
the save.
From there, the Falcons carried play through the next
20 minutes, netting their two first-half goals in that stretch.
With just under seven minutes gone, Chambers deflected in
a pass from sophomore Jenna Schwind
behind Dougherty for the 1-0 lead.
Seven and a half minutes later, Dougherty kicked out
a shot by sophomore Erin
Weaner, but classmate Bethany Fulton was there for the rebound and goal to give Messiah
the 2-0 advantage.
Despite carrying play for the last ten minutes of the
opening stanza, the hosts were not able to get the ball
into the cage. The best threat Gettysburg had was with two
and a half minutes remaining in the half when a Giljam
line-drive shot was saved, and sophomore Bridget
Seidel (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin) also hit the
right post.
The Falcons controlled the ball in the Bullets’
end to start the second half, but were unable to capitalize
until Chambers found the back of the cage at the 44:33 mark.
Four minutes later, Chambers drew the keeper out and found
Fisher on the back post for the 4-0 advantage.
Messiah continued to carry play in its end until the
65th minute. On one of their few offensive possession
of the second half, the Bullets made the trip count. With
Gettysburg facing its first potential shutout of the season, junior
Katie Lowe (Setauket, NY/Ward Melville)
controlled the ball just off the left post and drew the
Falcon keeper out before dumping off to Hopkins for the lone Bullet goal.
Despite Gettysburg possessing the ball for extended periods of time, by
the time the final whistle had blown, the Bullets could
only muster five shots compared to Messiah’s 25, and
the Falcons also ended with a 16-9 advantage in penalty
corners.
The Bullets return to action
on the road Saturday against conference-foe Haverford. Game
time is 1
p.m.
| Score by Period |
1 |
2 |
- |
F |
| No. 3 Messiah (7-1) |
2 |
2 |
- |
4 |
| Gettysburg (5-3) |
0 |
1 |
- |
1 |
Scoring:
M – Danae
Chambers (Jenna Schwind), 6:57
M – Bethany Fulton (unassisted), 14:24
M – Chambers (unassisted), 44:33
M – Aftan Fisher (Chambers),
48:51
G – Kate Hopkins (Katie Lowe), 66:47
Shots:
M 25, G 5. Penalty Corners: M 16, G 9. Saves:
M 2 (Erica Nelson), G 15 (Quinn Dougherty).
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