Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg
field hockey team continues to put up bigger and bigger
numbers the farther into the 2003 season it goes. After
netting just two goals in each of their first three games,
the Bullets put up three at Catholic on Sept. 16. They followed
that up with a 4-0 win over Washington & Jefferson last
Saturday on Homecoming. After a week off, the Orange &
Blue followed up the 4-0 performance with a 5-0 win in Saturday’s
Centennial Conference (CC) opener against Swarthmore.
Gettysburg (4-2/1-0 CC) used three first
half goals to post its second straight shutout and third
consecutive victory over the visiting Garnet (3-5/0-1 CC)
in a very windy day on Memorial Field.
Five different Bullets scored goals, and six different
players registered a point, led by junior Kelley
Mishler (Moorestown, NJ/Moorestown) with a goal and an assist. Her goal was also the game-winner
as well as her first of the season.
Senior Jessy O’Neill
(Lower Gwynedd, PA/Gwynedd-Mercy Academy) made three saves to pick up her third win of the season
in as many attempts and her first shutout.
Freshmen goalkeepers Karen Lorang and Melissa LaVan
split time in the cage for Swarthmore. Lorang allowed three
goals and made six saves and picked up the loss, while LaVan
allowed two goals in the second half.
The game started evenly played with both teams having
opportunities to strike first. However, it was Mishler
who got the hosts on the board just over nine minutes in.
The Bullets set up for a penalty corner that Mishler
took. She sent the ball to senior Lisa
Giljam (Downingtown, PA/Villa Maria Academy) at the
top of the arc, who passed the ball into classmate Kate Hopkins (Oswego, NY/West Chester East [PA]). Hopkins drew the goalie out and dumped the ball to the waiting
stick of Mishler, who capitalized
on the open cage for a 1-0 Gettysburg lead.
Sophomore Kristen
Held (Glenside, PA/Springfield Township) made it a 2-0 game when she knocked in a rebound goal
with just over 10 minutes to play in the opening stanza.
Junior Katie Lowe (Setauket, NY/Ward Melville)
took the original shot from the left side that Lorang
stopped, but Held was there for the rebound.
Lowe got her own chance eight minutes later when she
collected her own rebound and found the back of the cage
for the 3-0 lead at the intermission.
Gettysburg controlled play in much of the second half. Eleven minutes
in, the Bullets had a chance to make it 4-0, but a Mishler
pass from the left side just missed Lowe’s stick to
keep it a 3-0 game.
The hosts did make it 4-0 six minutes later, though.
Mishler collected a loose ball on a scramble in front of net
and found senior Carrie
Brown (Hummelstown, PA/Hershey) for the score.
At the 57:24 mark, sophomore Bridget Seidel (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin) came within inches
of making it 5-0, but the shot went just right of the cage.
Gettysburg capitalized 31 seconds later, however, when classmate
Becky Latta
(West Chester, PA/Henderson) stole the ensuing free hit and dribbled in from the
top of the circle uncontested for the final margin.
The Bullets return to action
on Tuesday at home against Centennial Conference-foe Johns
Hopkins. Game time is 4 p.m.
| Score by Period |
1 |
2 |
- |
F |
| Swarthmore (3-5/0-1 CC) |
0 |
0 |
- |
0 |
| Gettysburg (4-2/1-0 CC) |
3 |
2 |
- |
5 |
Scoring:
G
– Kelley Mishler (Kate Hopkins), 9:01
G – Kristen Held (unassisted), 24:48
G – Katie Lowe (unassisted), 33:55
G – Carrie Brown (Mishler),
51:59
G – Becky Latta (unassisted),
57:55
Shots:
S 4, G 15. Penalty Corners: S 4, G 7. Saves:
S 6 (Karen Lorang 6, 3GA, 35MP; Melissa LaVan
0, 2GA, 35MP), G 3 (Jessy O’Neill).
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