Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. –
How do you follow up your biggest offensive
output of the season? If you’re the Gettysburg field hockey team, you better
it and once again put up your largest offensive numbers
of the season.
That’s exactly what happened Saturday afternoon
on Memorial Field when the Bullets (3-2) met up with Washington
& Jefferson (0-7). Gettysburg controlled play from the opening whistle and never
looked back, shutting out the Presidents, 4-0. The Bullets
did not even allow W&J a shot, holding a 31-0 advantage
in that category.
Junior
Katie Lowe (Setauket, NY/Ward Melville)
led the Orange & Blue with two goals, including the
game-winner.
Classmate
Quinn Dougherty
(Wading River, NY/Shoreham-Wading River) picked
up her initial win of the season in goal, playing 45 minutes,
while freshman Abby
Treworgy (Mt. Airy, MD/South Carroll)
saw her first action between the pipes in a Gettysburg uniform,
playing the last 25 minutes of the game.
Freshman
goalkeeper Heather
Browne made 16 saves for the Presidents.
Gettysburg’s domination started less than 30 seconds into
the game, when sophomore Bridget
Seidel (Mohnton, PA/Governor
Mifflin) recorded
the game’s first shot. Before eight minutes had elapsed,
the Bullets held a 4-0 shot advantage and a 1-0 lead. Lowe
made a move around a defender and found the back of the
cage for her first goal on the day.
After
a barrage of shots going wide for the Bullets over the next
14 minutes, Lowe collected a loose ball in front of the
net, and scored her second of the game to gave Gettysburg
a 2-0 lead.
Three
minutes later, Lowe came within inches of the natural hat
trick, but a huge stop by Browne kept it a 2-0 game.
With
just about six minutes to play in the opening stanza, the
Bullets set up for their ninth corner of the game. Junior
Kelley Mishler
(Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) sent the ball across to senior Amy Ritter (Medford, NJ/Shawnee), who netted her first goal of the season for a 3-0 game.
The assist for Mishler was her
first point of 2003.
Gettysburg continued to dominate the second half but could not
find the back of the cage to extend its lead until the 58th
minute. Sophomore Becky
Latta (West Chester, PA/Henderson) shot the ball from the top-left of the arc, but Browne
made a kick save to prevent the goal. However, junior Cassidy Zappacosta
(Monkton, MD/Maryvale Prep)
was waiting on the other side to collect the rebound, which
she did and found put it by the goalie for her first goal
of the season and the fourth and final Bullets’ goal.
The Bullets return to action on Tuesday at home against
No. 1 Messiah. Game time is 4 p.m.
| Score by Period |
1 |
2 |
- |
F |
| Washington & Jefferson
(0-7) |
0 |
0 |
- |
0 |
| Gettysburg (3-2) |
3 |
1 |
- |
4 |
Scoring:
G
– Katie Lowe (unassisted), 7:51
G – Lowe (unassisted), 22:28
G – Amy Ritter (Kelley Mishler),
29:11
G – Cassidy Zappacosta (unassisted),
58:14
Shots:
WJ 0, G 31. Penalty Corners: WJ 0, G 16. Saves:
WJ 16 (Heather Browne), G 0 (Quinn Dougherty 45 MP, Abby
Treworgy 25 MP).
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