Box Score

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Ashlee Duncan rocketed home a shot from the right side of the arc in the 79th minute to complete a hat trick and give Johns Hopkins its fourth Centennial Conference (CC) field hockey championship with a 4-3 win over Gettysburg on Sunday at Ursinus.

Duncan led all scorers with three goals while Caite Kappel added the fourth Blue Jay tally.

Junior Katie Lowe (Setauket, NY/Ward Melville), junior Kelley Mishler (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) and sophomore Meg Goddu (Chadds Ford, PA/Camp Hill) each tallied once for the Bullets.

Meredith Shifman recorded nine saves for Johns Hopkins while Jessy O’Neill (Lower Gwynedd, PA/Gwynedd Mercy Academy) made five stops at the other end.

Gettysburg (11-8) scored at each end of regulation, and the Blue Jays (11-8) had three of the four goals in between.

With her squad trailing 3-2 for most of the second half, Mishler finally found the backboard with her squad’s ninth shot of the half to knot the game at 3 with 1:34 left in regulation. Off a penalty corner, senior Amy Ritter (Medford, NJ/Shawnee) sent a ball across to Lowe, whose shot was labeled for the goal. Shifman made a kick save, but Mishler was there to put home the rebound.

Johns Hopkins took a 3-2 lead into the intermission after Duncan broke a 2-all tie with 2:01 left in the opening stanza. Meighan Roose collected the rebound off a Jenny Farrelly shot, and passed left to Duncan, who slipped the ball behind O’Neill for the advantage.

Lowe got things started when she took a pass from senior Kate Hopkins (Oswego, NY/West Chester East [PA]) in the game’s first minute and slid it behind Shifman for a 1-0 Gettysburg lead.

On a fast break in the fourth minute, Kelly Hewitt drew the defense and dished off to Duncan, who found the cage for the equalizer.

Kappel made it 2-1 in favor of the Blue Jays when she took a pass from Roose for the score at the 16:48 mark.

At 27:53, Goddu once again knotted the game, collecting her own rebound off a penalty corner.

Both teams had numerous opportunities in the second half to put the game away in regulation, but neither team could find the back of the net.

Back-to-back defensive saves by Ritter and Jamie Heeneke (Pennsauken, NJ/Moorestown) in the first five minutes of the second half kept it a 3-2 game.

On a play similar to her game-tying goal, Mishler hit the post in the 61st minute, and the Blue Jays clung to their slim lead.

Mishler also broke up a one-on-one between Kappel and O’Neill in the first six minutes of the extra session to prevent the winning goal, but the Bullets could not create a sustained attack at the other end.
 

Score by Half	1	2	OT	-	F
Johns Hopkins (11-8)	3	0	1	-	4
Gettysburg (11-8)	2	1	0	-	3

Scoring
G – Katie Lowe (Kate Hopkins), 0:39
J – Ashlee Duncan (Kelly Hewitt), 16:48
J – Caite Kappel (Meighan Roose), 27:53
G – Meg Goddu, 27:53
J – Duncan (Roose), 32:59
G – Kelley Mishler, 68:26
J – Duncan, 78:58

Shots: J 16, G 18. Penalty Corners: J 8, GC 12. Saves: J 9 (Meredith Shifman), G 5 (Jessy O’Neill).

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